Chorafas Foundation
2015-03-01
The purpose of the EPFL Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation award is to distinguish innovative and high level research.
Two prizes are allocated of USD 5,000 each. Six areas are primed, with particular emphasis on applied research:
1. Research, Development and Applications in High Technology
2. Life sciences and Medicine
3. Physics, Chemistry, Sciences of the Very Small and the Very Large
4. Formal sciences: Mathematics, Logic, Statistics and their Applications
5. Hard Science Solutions to Millennium Problems
6. Interdisciplinary Scientific Research
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.
Age limit: 32 years. Candidates should defend their thesis during the civil year of the submission of the applications to the Foundation. Candidates with full time employment cannot apply.
