EFCE Excellence Award in Drying

Call for nominations 2010

The EFCE presents a biennial Excellence Award to recognise a PhD thesis or papers published in the preceding three-year period, which demonstrate an outstanding contribution to research and/or practice in drying. This document describes how this award series will operate and the rules and procedures governing nomination.

The award will comprise:

• A certificate
• A cash award of € 1500
• A travel grant (not exceeding € 500) to attend the International Drying Symposium where the award will be presented

The award will be presented during a Plenary Session of the biennial International Drying Symposium.

The first EFCE Excellence Award in Drying will be presented at the 17th International Drying Symposium (conference website: http://events.dechema.de/ids2010.html ) to be held in Magdeburg, Germany, from 3 to 6 October 2010.

PhD theses or papers published between 1 ^st January 2007 and 31 ^st December 2009 may be nominated for evaluation, with a closing date of

31 March 2010 .

Eligibility

• The award is presented to researchers or engineers in the early stage of their careers, who have made excellent contributions to drying in the process industries.
• Nominations may be submitted by
• PhD supervisors at a PhD-awarding institution in an EFCE member country, or
• Members of a national or regional member association of EFCE
• Self-nominations are excluded
• No more than one nomination can be submitted by the same person
• The nominated PhD thesis or publication must address a topic relevant to the field of drying.
• The nominated PhD thesis or publication must have been published during the three calendar years preceding the closing date for nominations.
• The nominated PhD thesis must have been completed and published and the PhD degree examined and awarded.

Nomination procedure, supporting documentation and closing date

• Nominations should be submitted as PDF files via email to the "EFCE Drying Award Committee"( ).
  
• Supporting documentation: nominations must be submitted as a single package and must contain the following information:
• Name and address of nominee
• Name and address of nominator
• Title of the publication
• Date work commenced
• Two letters of recommendation (no more than two pages each), from two independent referees outlining the key contribution to Drying and stating clearly why the contribution is considered to be truly outstanding and thus deserving the Excellence Award.
• In the case of nominating a PhD thesis an extended abstract in English (maximum 10 pages) containing the following information must be included:
• summary,
• problem addressed,
• state of the art,
• key scientific and technological innovations,
• applications, implementations and results,
• references.
• upon request a copy of the thesis, as published (this will be returned after the evaluation is completed)

Note that all of the above documentation must be submitted together as a complete package. Except for the PhD thesis, all other documents should be submitted electronically. PhD thesis should be sent only when requested. Nominations which do not conform to these requirements will be rejected. 

• Deadline: nominations must be submitted to reach the Excellence Award Committee no later than March 31st of the year of the International Drying Symposium. Late nominations will be rejected.

Publication of selected work
 
The successful candidate will be invited to make a presentation at the International Drying Symposium at which the Award is presented. The presentation will be published in the proceedings of the Symposium.

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