Alys Mary McAlpine (University of London) received the Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2022 for her thesis entitled: “Mediated labour migration in the Myanmar-Thailand corridor and precarious outcomes: a mixed methods social network analysis and agent-based model”. She received his prize during the Social Simulation Conference on September 16, 2022.

Dhanan Utomo (Lancaster University Management School) received the Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2020 for his thesis entitled: “Improving and Comparing Data Collection Methodologies for Decision Rule Calibration in Agent-Based Simulation. A Case Study of Dairy Supply Chain in Indonesia”. He received his prize at the Social Simulation Week, where he gave a talk on the… MORE

Sascha Holzhauer (University of Kassel) received the Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2018 for his thesis entitled: “Dynamic Social Networks in Agent-based Modelling: Increasingly Detailed Approaches of Network Initialisation and Network Dynamics.” He collected his prize at the Social Simulation Conference in Stockholm, where he gave a talk on the work in his thesis in plenary… MORE

The second ESSA Distinguished Dissertation Award has been given to PhD. Hang Xiong (UCD, Ireland) for a dissertation entitled “Peer Effects in the Diffusion of High-Value Crops on Social Networks: A Social Simulation Approach”. The winner has been awarded at the Social Simulation Conference 2016 in Rome, where he gave a talk on his research in a plenary session on… MORE

The first ESSA Distinguished Dissertation Award was given in 2014 to PhD. Dr. Amineh Ghorbani (TUDeft, NL) for a dissertation entitled Structuring Socio-technical Complexity – Modelling Agent Systems Using Institutional AnalysisStructuring Socio-technical Complexity – Modelling Agent Systems Using Institutional Analysis”. The winner was awarded at the closing cerimony of Social Simulation Conference 2014 in Barcelona.