Stilianos Louca has been awarded a Governor General's Gold Medal for his PhD work and dissertation. This annual prize is given to the graduating doctoral student who has achieved the most outstanding academic record at UBC.
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/governor-generals-gold-medal

Dr Louca distinguished himself in every aspect of his studies here. His research has already produced many publications. His dissertation, The ecology of microbial metabolic pathways (supervised by Michael Doebeli through the Department of Mathematics and the Institute of Applied Mathematics), has just recently become available through the University's online repository: to see what all the excitement is about, visit
https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0314930