The ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Award winners for 2018 are:

• Jeffrey R. Dandoy (University of Pennsylvania​) and Khoo Teng Jian (University of Geneva) were celebrated for their creative and dedicated contributions to the measurement of jet energy and missing transverse momentum.
• Alex Kastanas (Stockholm University​) for his excellent contribution to the on-line luminosity software as well as dedicated operational support.
• Noemi Calace (CERN) and Nora Emilia Pettersson (University of Massachusetts​) for their remarkable contributions to the ITK upgrade project through simulation, reconstruction and performance studies.
• Takuto Kunigo (Kyoto University​), Tomoyuki Saito (ICEPP, University of Tokyo) and Shota Suzuki (KEK) were celebrated for their outstanding contributions in the development, deployment and commissioning of the trigger burst-stopper for the ATLAS Level-1 endcap muon system.
• Olga Igonkina (Nikhef), Murrough Landon (Queen Mary University of London), Imma Riu (Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology​), Eduard Simioni (University of Mainz) and Rosa Simoniello (University of Mainz) received awards for their exceptional contributions and dedication in successfully commissioning the Level-1 Topo trigger.
• Ed Moyse (University of Massachusetts) and Scott Snyder (Brookhaven National Laboratory​) for their outstanding contributions to software development and deployment.

See the News Article on the 2018 Awards.

The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2018 are:

• Nedaa Alexandra Asbah (DESY Hamburg) - Search for the Production of a Standard Model Higgs Boson in Association with Top-Quarks and Decaying into a Pair of Bottom-Quarks with 13 TeV ATLAS Data
• Andrew Stuart Bell (University of London) - b-Tagging and Evidence for the Standard Model H to bb Decay with the ATLAS Experiment
• Rafal Bielski (University of Manchester) - Top Quark Pair Production Measurements in the Single Lepton Channel using the ATLAS Detector
• Nicolas Köhler (MPI München) - Searches for the Supersymmetric Partner of the Top Quark, Dark Matter and Dark Energy at the ATLAS Experiment
• Stefano Manzoni (University of Milan & INFN; University Pierre et Marie Curie & LPNHE-Paris) - Physics with Photons with the ATLAS Run 2 Data: Calibration and Identification, Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass and Search for Supersymmetry in the Di-Photon Final State
• Anne-Luise Poley (DESY Zeuthen) - Studies of Adhesives and Metal Contacts on Silicon Strip Sensors for the ATLAS Inner Tracker

See the News Article on the 2018 Awards.