2024 Chorafas Awards - Call for proposals

The purpose of the EPFL Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation award is to distinguish innovative and high level research.

Two prizes are allocated, each valued at USD 10,000. Six areas are eligible, with particular emphasis on applied research:
1. Life Sciences & Medicine
2. Physics
3. Chemistry (including nanotechnology)
4. Mathematics
5. Informatics/Computer Science
6. Engineering of Finance & Risk Management

The prizes are meant to reward pre-graduate scientific contributions made independently by junior scientists (in their last year of PhD thesis preparation) at the EPFL.

Eligibility Criteria

For PhD theses defended or to be defended between 01.06.2023 and 31.12.2024

Age limit: 32 years (born after 31 May 1992).

Candidates who are full-time employees in the industry, in higher education or elsewhere, may not be nominated to the prize. Exceptions to this rule: Candidates who are employed as teaching assistants, research assistants, research associates and postdoctoral fellows.

No resubmission.

Submission deadline: 18 March 2024 (16:00 CEST)

Applications must be submitted via the online application platform.