The UGA academic thesis award was presented to Constantin Payerne at the UGA doctoral ceremony on June 25, 2024. This award recognizes Constantin's thesis work within the DARK team at LPSC, under the supervision of Céline Combet. Constantin's thesis focuses on the preparation of cosmological analysis with galaxy clusters using future Rubin/LSST data. This work was conducted as part of the international DESC collaboration, to which Constantin made significant contributions. The application for this award was supported by the physics graduate school (Olivier Isnard, on the right).

Congratulations, Constantin!