ScAIEM Doctoral Thesis Award
The ScAIEM Doctoral Thesis Award aims to foreground high-quality research in Industrial Engineering and Management. This award showcases the depth and breadth of the field, as well as its societal relevance. The award highlights various elements that make a thesis outstanding, including originality, relevance, collaboration with other researchers, creativity, collaboration with industry and societal actors, and high-quality empirical work.
Click on the name of the winners in the overview below to read more about them and their research, and to read their doctoral dissertation.
Recent Winner
2025: Dr. Linnea Harala, Tampere University, Finland, for her thesis, ‘Circular Ecosystems and How They Are Organised’. Dr. Harala’s thesis explores multi-actor collaborations at the business, industrial, and service ecosystem levels. Through extensive case studies across multiple sectors, Linnea’s research fills a critical research gap and offers both scientific novelty and practical insights.
Past Winners
2024: Dr. Viktor Werner, Linköping University, Sweden
2023: Dr. Armaghan Chizaryfard, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
2022: Dr. Helena Fornstedt, Uppsala University, Sweden
2021: Dr. Christine Große, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
2020: Dr. Helle Lohmann Rasmussen, Technical University of Denmark
2019: Dr. Lotta Lind, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT
2018: Dr. Kajsa Ahlgren Ode, Lund University, Sweden
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