The Lauwers family created the Mattias Lauwers award. This award is given on an annual basis to the PhD student who gives the best Monday seminar. The criteria for this award will reflect Mattias. He took great pride in his Monday seminars, always aiming to be the best. His talks were informative, interesting, accessible and he prepared for every conceivable question.
We invite the PhD students to nominate who they think was the best speaker, and based on the student-nominations the VBC PhD Steering Committee will make the final decision.
The Lauwers family will present the award at the 2019 VBC PhD Symposium.