Dr. Zaozao Qiu (Supervisor: Professor Zuowei Xie) and Dr. Xiao-Yu Sun (Supervisor: Professor Henry N. C. Wong) have been awarded the Springer Thesis Prize and their research work will be published in the Springer Theses series that “brings together a selection of the very best PhD theses from around the world and across the physical sciences.” A world-renowned publisher, Springer, is the world’s largest book and second-largest journal publisher worldwide.