2023 Outstanding Student Thesis Awards
The Masonry Society’s Research Committee presented the 2023 Outstanding PhD Dissertation awards during it’s Annual Meeting on November 9, 2023 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2023 Outstanding Masters Thesis
Submissions held for consideration in 2024.
2023 Outstanding PhD Dissertation
Chiara Ferrero, University of Genoa, for her paper titled “Structural Behaviour of Masonry Arches on Moving Supports: from On-Site Observation to Experimental and Numerical Analysis”
under the direction of Dr.Chiara Calderini and Dr. Pere Roca
The Masonry Society’s Student Thesis Awards are presented annually by the Research Committee to the best doctoral dissertation and master’s thesis on masonry topics.
Theses must be submitted to the TMS office no later than June 1st of the award year.

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