This award is attributed every year by a jury from the academic world and industry to acknowledge the best master thesis of the French community of Belgium, respectively in the sciences and the engineering categories. Their master thesis work has been carried out at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics under the supervision of Prof. Magin and Dr. Asma as part of the QB50 project, in collaboration with Prof. Chatelain from the Université Catholique de Louvain. Mr. de Crombrugghe is currently enrolled as VKI research master student in the Aeronautics and Aerospace Department.