Lagrange Award – Multibody System Dynamics Outstanding PhD Thesis Prize
The Lagrange Award was established in 2017 by the IFToMM Technical Committee for Multibody Dynamics and Springer with the aim of recognizing the outstanding achievements of a young researcher (under 35 years old) at the early stage of their scientific career.
The Lagrange Award is presented annually by the IFToMM Technical Committee for Multibody Dynamics and Springer’s journal Multibody System Dynamics to recognize the most successful PhD thesis on Multibody Dynamics over the prior year as judged by the evaluation committee. The winner will receive a certificate, a one-year subscription to Multibody System Dynamics, and Springer books to the value of € 250. The decision will be announced during a Multibody Dynamics conference supported by IFToMM.
The Award Committee is composed by four members, namely the coordinator and three senior researchers in the field (proposed by the award coordinator and approved by the IFToMM TC for Multibody Dynamics).
Applications (2026 edition)
The call for applications of the 2026 will open around December 2026.
Every researcher who has presented a PhD thesis related to the Multibody Dynamics field and got it approved at a University or Research Organization during 2026 qualifies for the award and can submit an application.
The applications must be sent by e-mail to the Award coordinator, Dr. Pascal Ziegler (pascal.ziegler@itm.uni-stuttgart.de). Applicants must include 1) a copy of their PhD thesis (in English), 2) a curriculum vitae, and 3) a maximum of three publications related to the thesis content. The closing date for applications is January 17, 2027.
The decision of the Award Committee will be announced in March 2027.
Results – 2025 edition
The winner of the 2025 Lagrange Award is Ekansh Chaturvedi (Virginia Tech, USA).
Honourable mentions have been presented to João Emanuel Carvalho Pagaimo (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal).
Congratulations!
The Award was presented during the closing ceremony of IMSD 2026, the 8th International Conference on Multibody System Dynamics, held in Sevilla, Spain on June 16-19, 2026.
Past awards
- 2017 – Reza Sharif Razavian (University of Waterloo, Canada) and Sergio Conde Martín (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
- 2018 – Claudia Latella (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy) and Pedro Antunes (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
- 2019 – Albert Peiret (McGill University, Canada)
- 2020 – Filipe Marques (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- 2021 – Henrik Ebel (Universität Stuttgart, Germany), Honourable mentions: Svenja Drücker (Technische Universität Hamburg, Germany) and Xinxin Yu (LUT University, Finland)
- 2022 – Philipp Eichmeir (Technische Universität Wien, Austria), Honourable mention: Simon Vanpaemel (KU Leuven, Belgium)
- 2023 – Yuanqing Gu (Tianjin University, China), Honourable mentions: Seongji Han (Kyung Hee University, South Korea) and Patrick S. Schmid (Universität Stuttgart, Germany).
- 2024 – Mariana Isabel dos Santos Rodrigues da Silva (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) and Peter Manzl (Universität Innsbruck, Austria), Honourable mention: Adwait Verulkar (Virginia Tech, USA).
- 2025 – Ekansh Chaturvedi (Virginia Tech, USA), Honourable mention: João Emanuel Carvalho Pagaimo (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal).
Awarded by:
Contact information
Pascal Ziegler
Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics
University of Stuttgart
Germany
pascal.ziegler@itm.uni-stuttgart.de