The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2013 are:

• John Alison (University of Pennsylvania, USA) - The Road to Discovery : Detector Alignment, Electron Identification, Particle Misidentification, WW Physics, and the Discovery of the Higgs Boson
• Teng-Jian Khoo (University of Cambridge, UK) - The hunting of the squark: Experimental strategies in the search for supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider
• Julien Maurer (Aix-Marseille University and Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, France) - Mesure des performances de reconstruction des électrons et recherche de Supersymétriedans les canaux avec deux leptons de même charge dans les données du détecteur ATLAS
• Christopher J. Meyer (University of Chicago, USA) - Measurement of Dijet Cross Sections in Proton-Proton Collisions at 7 TeV Center-of-Mass Energy Using the ATLAS Detector
• Kristof Schmieden (University of Bonn, Germany) - Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle and the Spin of the Gluon from Angular Distributions in the Reaction pp-->Z/γ* --> μ+μ-+X with ATLAS

See the News Article on the 2013 Awards.