HUMLOG Best theses Award

The HUMLOG Institute rewards each year one Master’s and every second year one Doctoral student who have been writing the best theses in Humanitarian Logistics.

The topic of the thesis has to relate to humanitarian logistics and supply chain management.

Nominated master's theses need to fulfill the criterion of being a "research-based master's thesis with a good grade from a recognised university". Submitted thesis have to be completed the year prior to the nomination.

Doctoral theses, to qualify for the award, need to have been finished and defended within the time frame of 2012-2018.

The call for nominations 2019 is now closed.

Thank you for the outstanding theses and congratulations to the winners!

Lisa Swinkels wins the Best HUMLOG Master Thesis Award for her thesis Frequency Determination Policies for Mobile Healthcare Delivery. Supervisors are Harwin de Vries and Luk Van Wassenhove.

Ramin Satary gets the Honorary Mention for his Master's thesis Optimization of Transport Network of Food Supplies for an international humanitarian organization. Supervisor is Irineu de Brito Junior.

Hossein Baharmand wins the Best HUMLOG Doctoral Thesis Award for his thesis Designing Flexible Relief Distribution Networks for Sudden-onset Natural Disaster Response. Supervisor is Tina Comes.

The HUMLOG Board also congratulates Tharcisio Cotta Fontainha who receives Honorary Mention for his thesis Collaboration strategies in disaster response: a framework and an application. Supervisors are Adriana Leiras and Luiz Felipe Scavarda.

The Best Master Thesis Award will take place again next year, stay tuned.

Instructions:

Nominations shall be done by the supervisor of the thesis and include the following:

- An extended abstract and/or executive summary in English

- A short reasoning why this masters thesis is exceptional and nominated for the award including the grade (if applicable) and an explanation of the university's grading system.

- A link to the thesis online and/or an electronic copy (scan). Paper versions are allowed but need to reach the HUMLOG Institute by the deadline.

- The contact details of the nominee and supervisor(s) (e-mail and address)

Nominations have to be sent to humlog@hanken.fi

Award:

The prices consists of:

500€ for the best master's thesis / 1000€ for the best doctoral thesis
An invitation to attend the EurOMA Conference in June 2019 in Helsinki (registration, travel and accomodation covered).
An invitation to submit an article to the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management
An invitation to write a blog post on HUMLOG's blog

Awarded Master's theses
Years	Winner	Supervisors	Thesis
2019	Lisa Swinkels	Harwin de Vries & Luk Van Wassenhove	Frequency Determination Policies for Mobile Healthcare Delivery Read a blog
2019 Honorary mention	Ramin Satary	Irineu de Brito Junior	Optimization of Transport Network of Food Supplies for an international humanitarian organization
2018	Federico Gatti	Bublu Thakur-Weigold	Helping the helpers: Evaluating the impact of logistics consulting in the humanitarian sector Read thesis here
2018 Joint runner-up	Karl-Kristian Stuns	Graham Heaslip	Evaluating the Logistics Emergency Response Unit Foundation Training of Finnish Red Cross Read thesis here
2018 Joint runner-up	Lisa Rustemeier	Maria Besiou	Evaluating the Resilience of Humanitarian Supply Chains to Improve Disaster Preparedness - A System Dynamics Approach
2017	Emily J. Gooding	Jarrod Goentzel	A mixed methods approach to modeling personal protective equipment supply chains for infectious disease outbreak response Read thesis here
2016 Shared prize	Cecilie Collett Sælør Fon	Marianne Jahre	Logistics activities between emergency responses : A case study of Norwegian Red Cross Read thesis here
2016 Shared prize	Lauren A. Seelbach	Jarrod Goentzel	Stochastic Modeling to Allocate and Assess Disaster Response Capacity in Logistics Networks Read thesis here
2016 Honorary Mention	Thomas Büeler	Paulo Goncalves	Preparing Egyptian Red Crescent for the Future Read thesis here
2015 Shared prize	Julia Moline	Jarrod Goentzel	Data-driven resource Allocation Decisions: FEMA's Desaster Recovery Centers Read thesis here
2015 Shared prize	Silvia Uneddu	Paulo Goncalves	Supply Chain optimization of the distribution of mosquito nets in Ivory Coast Read thesis here
2014	Juliet Bvekwa	Paulo Goncalves	Improving CARE Zimbabwe Non Food Items Management and Accountability Read thesis here
2014 Honorary Mention	Kathryn Nishimura & Jian Wang	Jarrod Goentzel	Calculating Humanitarian Response Capacity Read thesis here

Awarded Doctoral Theses
Year	Name	Supervisor	Thesis
2019	Hossein Baharmand	Tina Comes	Designing Flexible Relief Distribution Networks for Sudden-onset Natural Disaster Response Read thesis here
2019 Honorary mention	Tharcisio Cotta Fontainha	Adriana Leiras & Luiz Felipe Scavarda	Collaboration strategies in disaster response: a framework and an application Read thesis here (In Portuguese)
2017	Timothy Luke Muggy	Jessica L. Heier Stamm	Quantifying and Mitigating Decentralized Decision Making in Humanitarian Logistics Systems Read thesis here
2015	Miguel Jaller	José Holguin-Veras	Resource allocation problems during disasters: the cases of points of distribution planning and material convergence handling Read thesis here
2013	Jessica Heier Stamm	Ozlem Ergun	Design and Analysis of Humanitarian and Public Health Logistics Systems Read thesis here