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Deadline to send nominations:
Sunday 15 November 2020

 


The User Organisation invites nominations for the 2021 Young Scientist Award. The 26th edition of this traditional prize will be awarded during the User Meeting on 8 - 10 February 2021, and carries prize money of 2 000 Euros as well as the production by a professionnal company of a short promotional video about the winner and his/her research (Donal Finnegan, YSA 2020).

The nominee can be of any nationality, with 3-7 years of experience since completion of PhD (as stated on the PhD certificate), and less than 37 years old on January 1st of the year the award is granted. Furthermore, the relevant research must have been carried out at the ESRF. The selected candidate will be requested to give a talk at the plenary session of the User Meeting on Tuesday, February 9th. Further details on the rules for nominations can be found here.

Nominations should be sent by e-mail to: ysanom@esrf.fr

Nominations should include:

  1. one letter of recommendation explaining why the nominee merits the prize (no self-nomination will be accepted),
     
  2. curriculum vitae of the nominee, containing personal details, career developments, and highlighting invited and contributed talks, seminars and awarded grants, if applicable, 2 pages maximum,
     
  3. complete list of publications. Candidates are requested to identify 5 publications that best represent their research at the ESRF and to list  them at top of the CV or of the list of publications,
     
  4. academic referees (with their contact details, four maximum) who can be contacted for further reference if necessary.

Deadline

The DEADLINE to send nominations is
SUNDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2020

Nominees over the age-limit, or nominations received after the deadline will NOT be accepted.

The nominations will be judged by an international committee of prominent synchrotron radiation scientists. The list of nominees is confidential and only the award-winner will be notified mid-December 2020.


Michela Brunelli
Chairperson of the User Organisation Committee

Meeting Secretariat
usermeet@esrf.fr

ESRF User Office
CS 40220
71 avenue des Martyrs
38043 GRENOBLE Cedex 9, France.