We congratulate Philip Waite for having received the departmental Alan Martin Doctoral prize. The prize is awarded to a postgraduate student for the best Ph.D. thesis in Physics in a given year. During his PhD, Phil has published on research projects related to precision calculations for collider processes, searches for new physics and the development of novel machine learning techniques (http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/13418/1/Philip_Waite_thesis.pdf?DDD25+).
