Winners 2025
- Lingyuan Ye (Amsterdam, Master of Logic). Supervisor: Benno van den Berg. Thesis title: "Algebraic Monoidal Model Categories and Path Category Structures for Effective Kan Fibrations".
- Andreea Minculescu (Groningen, Masters in AI). Supervisors: Rineke Verbrugge, Harmen de Weerd and Jakob Dirk Top. Thesis title: "Cutting Cheryl's Birthday cake: Modeling theory of mind orders in public announcement logic".
VvL Master's Thesis Award Committee 2025:
Eric Pacuit (Chair, University of Maryland)
Zoé Christoff (University of Groningen)
Vlasta Sikimić (TU Eindhoven)
Fan Yang (Utrecht University)
Winners 2024
- Aude Corbeel (University of Amsterdam, Master's in Theoretical Physics). Supervisors: Sebastian de Haro Ollé and Erik Verlinde. Thesis title: "AdS/CFT Duality: Insights from Quantum Information Theory (A Conceptual Clarification)".
- Sterre Lutz (Utrecht University, Master's in AI). Supervisors: Nima Motamed and Dragan Doder. Thesis title: "r-PLBP: Temporal Logic for Reasoning about Safety and Rewards of Bounded Policies under Uncertainty".
- Ruben Mud (University of Groningen, Master of Mathematics). Supervisor: Oliver Lorscheid. Thesis title: "Topics in Betweenness and Enriched Categories".
- Valentin Müller (University of Amsterdam, Master of Logic). Supervisors: Marianna Girlando and Benno van den Berg. Thesis title: "On the proof theory of inquisitive logic".
VvL Master’s thesis award committee 2024:
Winners 2023
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Rodrigo Almeida (UvA, supervised by Nick Bezhanishvili & Tommaso Moraschini). Thesis title: Polyatomic Logics and Generalised Blok-Esakia Theory with Applications to Orthologic and KTB.
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Søren Brinck Knudstorp (UvA, supervised by Johan van Benthem & Nick Bezhanishvili). Thesis title: Modal Information Logics.
- Raoul Koudijs (UvA, supervised by Balder ten Cate). Thesis title: Learning Modal Formulas via Dualities.
VvL Master’s thesis award committee 2023:
Winners 2022
- Anna Dmitrieva (UvA, supervised by Nick Bezhanishvili & Tommaso Moraschini). Thesis title: Positive Modal Logic Beyond Distributivity: Duality, Preservation and Completeness.
- Maximilian Siemers (UvA, supervised by Aybüke Özgün). Thesis title: Hyperintensional Logics for Evidence, Knowledge and Belief.
- Dominik Wehr (UvA, supervised by Bahareh Afshari). Thesis title: An Abstract Framework for the Analysis of Cyclic Derivations.

VvL Master’s thesis award committee 2022: