Debye Prize

The Peter Debye Prize for Young Investigators for Excellence in Dielectric Research is established to encourage and support young scientists to continue research in Dielectric Spectroscopy and its applications

Debye Prize winners

2016 Ivan Popov & Subarna Samanta

2014 Janeta Wojnarowska

2012 Simone Napolitano

2010 Catalin Gainaru

2008 Periklis Papadopoulos & Daniele Prevosto

2006 Anatoli Serghei

The Award

The award is a certificate of achievement accompanied by a cash prize of 1000 euro, finances permitting.

The Prize

The prize is given only for scientific work which is already published or in press (as proven by a letter of acceptance).

Eligibility

To be eligible for this prize, the nominee should a) be under the age of 36 years, b) be inscribed to the conference and c) attend the meeting in Brussels (exemptions to these rules are allowed, in exceptional cases).

Candidate nomination

Candidates can be nominated by any IDS member or be self-nominated. The nomination, together with the candidate’s Curriculum Vitae, a listing of the candidate’s publications and one copy of each of the papers under consideration for the Debye Prize should be sent by email to the Award Committee chairperson (Prof. Michael Wubbenhorst). In the case of publications under joint or multiple authorship, the candidate should include a brief statement of the input made by the candidate in each of those publications.

Deadlines for candidate nomination: 26th May 2018

The nomination documents should be submitted by email in .pdf format.

Award Committee

The Award Committee consists of 3 committee members: the Award Committee chairperson and two members of IDS. The Award Committee chairperson is responsible for notifying the IDS board of the winner of the prize in advance of notifying the successful candidate. Members of the Award Committee must be free of any direct relationship (personal, member of the same research team, etc.) to any of the nominees. The chairman of IDS has the duty to make sure that this rule is strictly fulfilled.

Evaluation process

The Award Committee is responsible for the process for evaluation of the nominated scientific work and to verify the eligibility of the candidates. As part of the evaluation process, the Award Committee is encouraged to involve scientists from outside the society in judging the quality of the nominated research. The final decision however will be made by the Award Committee.

Award announcement

The Award Committee is responsible for formulating a presentation statement about the scientific work and the scientist chosen as the winner of the Debye Prize. The Debye Prize is awarded to the prize-winner at the occasion of the biannual meeting of IDS.

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