TWAS-Atta-ur-Rahman Award in Chemistry 2026 (up to $5,000) – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2026

Applications are open for the TWAS-Atta-ur-Rahman Award in Chemistry 2026. The 2026 award, sponsored by Searle Company Ltd, can be given to a chemist not older than 45, nationwide of a science-and-know-how lagging nation (STLC), who has been residing and dealing there for at least two years instantly prior to his/her nomination.

TWAS has lengthy acknowledged that awards present an incentive for scientists to do their finest work, whereas successful them international acknowledgment. Honours awarded by TWAS and its companions are among the many most prestigious given for analysis in the creating world. They vary from the TWAS-Awards, honoring established scientists in the South, to awards given to early-profession scientists already making spectacular contributions to their subject.

Award

• The award is price $5,000.

Eligibility

• Eligible candidates for the 2026 Award are younger chemists (not older than 45), nationwide of a Scientifically and Technologically Lagging (STL) nation, who’ve been residing and dealing in an eligible nation for at least two years instantly prior to their nomination. All fields of Chemistry are eligible.
• Individuals who’ve beforehand received a TWAS-named Award should not eligible to be nominated for Awards named after a special TWAS Fellow.
• Self nominations and nominations from jury members is not going to be thought of. Fellows of TWAS should not eligible.
• The similar nominee can’t be nominated for a couple of ‘Fellows of TWAS Awards’ in a given yr. The secretariat retains the fitting to convey to the eye of the related nominators that the nomination could also be appropriate for one more award, and the ultimate choice whether or not or not to shift the nomination can be taken by the nominators themselves

Nomination

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

• Nominator contact particulars;
• Nominee contact particulars (self nominations and nominations from jury members will not be thought of) and basic data on the nominee, together with the nation the place he/she has been working and residing in the previous 2 years;
• Authorization from the nominee (i.e. the candidate) 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 by the web platform. The privateness authorization kind is accessible for obtain in the part ‘nominee’s private knowledge’. The kind have to be crammed in and signed by the candidate after which uploaded onto the on-line platform;
• Suggested quotation (15-20 phrases highlighting the nominee’s scientific achievements in Chemistry);
• Supporting assertion relating to the nominee’s contribution in Chemistry. Supporting statements ought to clarify in element the work carried out by the candidate and its significance in the related scientific context. Clear reference ought to be made to the scientific influence of the nominee’s work. Vague supporting statements is not going to be thought of and can negatively have an effect on the analysis (max 10,000 characters);
• Forward-looking undertaking outlining the candidate deliberate future actions (max 10,000 characters);
• Clear and detailed account of any time spent overseas by the nominee in the previous two years;
• PhD: data on topic space, yr and awarding establishment;
• Brief data on membership in academies and societies;
• Brief data on awards and honours obtained;
• List of 10 most important publications listed in an internationally acceptable format;
• The nominee’s temporary CV;
• The nominee’s full record of publications are additionally to be uploaded, individually, onto the web platform;
• The nominee’s h-index in Google Scholar, and its related variety of citations.

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