Two winners of the 2024 BMI Thesis Prize

Simona Adele Garobbio and Domenic Burger. Credit: EPFL

Simona Adele Garobbio and Domenic Burger. Credit: EPFL

For the first time, the Brain Mind Institute (BMI) has awarded its prestigious Thesis Prize to two exceptional PhD graduates, Simona Adele Garobbio and Domenic Burger, recognizing the outstanding quality of their research.

The Brain Mind Institute (BMI) Thesis Prize is awarded once a year to recognize all-round excellence and creative research that has high impact in the scientific community and is exquisitely presented in the manuscript and oral defense.

This year, the BMI Thesis Prize has been awarded to two PhD graduates: Simona Adele Garobbio and Domenic Burger, both having conducted groundbreaking work in their respective fields. Simona Garobbio's thesis was supervised by Professor Michael Herzog, while Domenic Burger’s thesis was supervised by Professor Henning Stahlberg.

“For the first time in its history, the BMI PhD thesis prize will go to two winners!” says Professor Johannes Gräff, director of the EPFL PhD Program in Neuroscience (EDNE). “Both Simona Garobbio and Domenic Burger conducted outstanding theses in their respective domains and are thus the worthy recipient of this prize! They set the bar for future generations very high!”


Author: Nik Papageorgiou

Source: Life Sciences | SV

This content is distributed under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 license. You may freely reproduce the text, videos and images it contains, provided that you indicate the author’s name and place no restrictions on the subsequent use of the content. If you would like to reproduce an illustration that does not contain the CC BY-SA notice, you must obtain approval from the author.


Images to download

© 2025 EPFL
© 2025 EPFL
© 2025 EPFL
© 2025 EPFL
© 2025 EPFL
© 2025 EPFL
© 2025 EPFL
© 2025 EPFL
© 2025 EPFL
© 2025 EPFL

Share on