Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Water, it is my great pleasure to announce the winner of the 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award. This award is for a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential.

The award has been granted to:
“Green-Gray Coupled Runoff Control Infrastructure Adaptive Multi-Objective Optimization Method”
By Zijing Liu, Tsinghua University, China

The winner will receive CHF 800, an electronic certificate and an offer to publish a featured paper in Water with the article processing charge (APC) waived before the end of 2023.

On behalf of the evaluation committee, I congratulate the winner on her accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the applicants for submitting their exceptional theses and thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Dr. Jean-Luc PROBST
Editor-in-Chief, Water