The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2012 are:

• Aaron Angerami (Columbia University, USA) - Jet Quenching in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC
• Paolo Francavilla (Università di Pisa, Italy) - Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
• Anna Henrichs (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany) - Precision Measurements of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in the Single Lepton Channel with the ATLAS Experiment
• Eleni Mountricha (National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and CEA de Saclay, France) - Search for the H → ZZ* → 4ℓ channel with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC leading to the observation of a new particle compatible with the Higgs boson
• Yasuyuki Okumura (Nagoya University, Japan) - The top-­quark pair production cross-section measurement in the dilpeton final state at proton-proton collisions with √s=7 TeV