The Ackermann Award is the EACSL Outstanding Dissertation Award for Logic in Computer Science. It is presented during the annual conference of the EACSL (CSL’xx).
From 2025, the Award has been sponsored by Amazon Automated Reasoning.
From 2017 to 2022, the Award has been sponsored by the association Alumni der Informatik Dortmund e.V.
From 2010 to 2016, the Award has been sponsored by the Kurt Gödel Society.
For the three years 2007-2009, the Award was sponsored by Logitech, S.A., Romanel, Switzerland, the world’s leading provider of personal peripherals.
Ackermann Award 2025
The Ackermann Award 2025 is bestowed on
Toghrul Karimov
for the thesis
Algorithmic Verification of Linear Dynamical Systems
Supervised by Joël Ouaknine at the Saarland University (Germany).
AND
Nikolas Mählmann
for the thesis
Monadically Dependent Graph Classes: Characterizations and Algorithmic Meta-Theorems
Supervised by Sebastian Siebertz at the University of Bremen (Germany), respectively.
A detailed report is published in the CSL 2026 proceedings.
The 2025 Ackermann award is presented to the recipients at the annual conference of the EACSL, CSL 2026, in Paris.
The Jury consisted of
- Albert Asterias (Technical University of Catalonia),
- Christel Baier (TU Dresden),
- Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana),
- Javier Esparza (TU Munich),
- Maribel Fernandez (King’s College London), president of EACSL,
- Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Paris-Saclay),
- Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University), ACM SigLog representative,
- Delia Kesner (IRIF, U Paris Cite),
- Slawomir Lasota (U Warsaw),
- Florin Manea (U Göttingen), vice-president of EACSL,
- Prakash Panangaden (McGill University),
- James Worrell (U Oxford).