TWAS-Apex Award 2025 in Quantum Science and Technology (up to $100,000) – YOA

Deadline: May 15, 2025

Nominations are open for the TWAS-Apex Award 2025 in Quantum Science and Technology. The TWAS-Apex Award is among the most prestigious honours given to scientists from the growing world. This yr marks the twentieth anniversary of this prestigious award, established to honor distinctive scientific contributions by researchers residing and working in growing nations.

2025 Edition

As they have fun the UNESCO International Year of Quantum Science and Technology in 2025, this award underscores the significance of advancing quantum analysis and fostering scientific capability globally. The Year of Quantum Science and Technology presents a novel OPPORTUNITY to spotlight the transformative potential of quantum improvements throughout numerous sectors, together with computing, communication, sensing, and supplies science. It requires collective efforts to harness the ability of quantum applied sciences to handle international challenges, promote scientific collaboration, and assist sustainable growth.

The 2025 TWAS-Apex Award might be given to a person scientist from the growing world who has demonstrated excellence in advancing the sector of Quantum Science and Technology via unique, excessive-affect analysis and/or the event of modern purposes.

The Award goals to promote theoretical and experimental contributions that push the boundaries of basic information and/or foster the interpretation of quantum ideas into sensible applied sciences. Through this recognition, the Award seeks to assist the expansion of scientific capability in growing nations, contributing to the worldwide development of fundamental and utilized science within the frontier of data.

Award

• The TWAS Apex Award carries a financial award of USD$100,000, in addition to a medal and a certificates highlighting the recipient’s main contributions to science. The award is introduced to the recipient at a particular ceremony organized by TWAS.

Eligibility

• Open to nationals of a growing nation, residing and working within the Global South for not less than the final 10 years. 
• Individuals who’ve beforehand acquired the Trieste Science Prize or the TWAS-Lenovo Science Award (each administered by TWAS) or different prestigious worldwide awards with a financial worth equal to or higher than that of the TWAS Apex Award aren’t eligible.
• Self-nominations, and nominations from jury members won’t be accepted.
• Fellows of TWAS are eligible for the TWAS Apex Award.     

Nomination

Nominations can solely be submitted electronically via the net platform. The deadline to submit on-line nominations is May 15, 2025.

A nomination is taken into account full provided that contains all the following data/materials:

• Nominator contact particulars
• Nominee contact particulars (self nominations aren’t accepted) and basic data on the nominee, together with the nation the place he/she has been working and residing up to now 10 years
• Brief steered quotation (not more than 20 phrases) highlighting the nominee’s excellent scientific achievement in Quantum Science and Technology
• Supporting assertion of about 200 phrases summarizing the scientific achievements of the nominee
• 5-6 web page narrative write-up of the candidate highlighting his/her main scientific achievements
• Information on PhD (diploma, yr, awarding establishment)
• Information of any time spent overseas up to now ten years
• The nominee’s temporary CV 
• A listing of not more than 20 of his/her most vital publications
• The nominee’s full record of publications are additionally to be uploaded, individually, onto the net platform
• Information on earlier awards, honours, recognition acquired by the nominee
• Google Scholar h-index and variety of citations
• Authorization from the nominee to course of his/her private knowledge for the needs of his/her nomination, in conformity to Art. 13 of the Italian Legislative Decree 196/2003. This authorization can solely be submitted via the net platform.

Click here to nominate

For extra data, go to TWAS-Apex Award.