May 4 – 8, 2026
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone
Recordings are now available via the timetable. SPS award winners can be found on the dedicated menu page.

SPS Award Winners

Congratulations to the speakers and poster-givers who were commended by our selection committee for their excellent contributions, and a huge thank you to the Swiss Physical Society for sponsoring these awards.

Best Talk Award:

  • Deniza Chekrygina, “Towards a Federated Accounting Framework for Sustainable Research Computing: A Landscape Review of the UK's Digital Research Infrastructure”.

  • Laurane Fréour, “Integrating sustainability in the design of the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope’s data processing and storage”. 

Best Student Talk Award: 

  • Jaime Iglesias Blanco, “Wattnet: High-Resolution Carbon and Water Intensity Modelling to Enable Impact-Aware Research Computing”.

Best Poster Award: 

  • Pascal Emmenegger, “Estimating the Embodied Impacts of the Internet: Promise and Deception”.

Highly Commended Talk:

  • Daisy Bradley, “Reducing machine learning model emissions by integrating physics knowledge”

  • Andreas Brunnert, “How accurate are current tools and models for estimating software energy consumption?”

  • Navirah Kamal, “The Green Algorithms Dashboard: Bringing Carbon Visibility to Research Computing”

Highly Commended Poster:

  • Christina Bremer, “How effective are carbon reporting tools in encouraging sustainable behaviours? Introducing E-SCOUT, a large-scale multi-centre trial”

  • Hannah Scott, “Developing a sustainable institutional research computing culture”