The committee for the 2024 Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award has decided to share the award between two recipients, including Dr. Robin Vacus for his dissertation “Algorithmic Perspectives to Collective Natural Phenomena.” He completed his PhD under the supervision of Amos Korman and Pierre Fraigniaud, at the Université Paris Cité. His thesis applies a distributed systems approach to problems and models inspired by biology and sociology.