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EFCE Excellence Award in Membrane Engineering
Call for nominations 2012
The EFCE presents a biennial/triennial 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 Membrane Engineering. 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 Euromembrane 2012 Conference where the award will be presented
The award will be presented during a Plenary Session of the Euromembrane 2012 Conference (conference website: http://www.euromembrane2012.com ) to be held in London, UK, on 23-27 September 2012.
PhD theses or papers published between 01.01.2009 and 31.12.2011 may be nominated for evaluation, with a closing date of
31 March 2012 .
Eligibility
- The award is presented to researchers or engineers in the early stage of their careers, who have made excellent contributions to Membrane Engineering 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 Membrane Engineering.
- 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 Excellence Award Membrane Engineering Committee" ( ).
- Supporting documentation: nominations must be submitted as a single package and must contain the following information:
- Name, address and CV of nominee
- Name and address of nominator
- Title of the publication
- Date work commenced (and date when the PhD thesis was defended)
- Two letters of recommendation (no more than two pages each), from two independent
referees outlining the key contribution to Membrane Engineering 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. The PhD thesis should be sent only when requested. Nominations which do not conform to these requirements will be rejected.
- Deadline: nominations must be sumbitted to reach the Excellence Award Committee no later than March, 31 2012. Late nominations will be rejected.
Publication of selected work
The successful candidate will be invited to make a presentation at the Euromrembrane 2012 Conference at which the Award is presented. The presentation will be published in the proceedings of the conference.