TWAS – Atta-Ur-Rahman Award in Chemistry ($5,000 Award)

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About TWAS – Atta-Ur-Rahman Award in Chemistry

The 2025 award, sponsored by Searle Company Ltd, will be given to a chemist not older than 45, national of a science-and-technology lagging country (STLC), who has been living and working there for a minimum of two years immediately prior to his/her nomination.

Nominations are accepted from TWAS members as well as science academies, national research councils, universities and scientific institutions in developing and developed countries.

• Sponsor Organisation: The World Academy of Science (TWAS)

Benefits of TWAS – Atta-Ur-Rahman Award in Chemistry

• The award is worth $5,000.

TWAS – Atta-Ur-Rahman Award in Chemistry Requirements

Eligible candidates for the 2025 Award are young chemists (not older that 45), national of a Scientifically and Technologically Lagging (STL) country, who have been living and working in an eligible country for a minimum of two years immediately prior to their nomination. All fields of Chemistry are eligible.

Individuals who have previously won a TWAS-named Award are not eligible to be nominated for Awards named after a different TWAS Fellow. 

For a list of the 66 ST-lagging countries, please visit: The 66 S&T-lagging countries

Self nominations and nominations from jury memberswill not be considered. Fellows of TWAS are not eligible.

The same nominee cannot be nominated for more than one 'Fellows of TWAS Awards' in a given year. The secretariat retains the right to bring to the attention of the relevant nominators that the nomination may be suitable for another award, and the final decision whether or not to shift the nomination will be taken by the nominators themselves

Selection:

A pre-screening of the nominees will be done at TWAS, The nomination dossiers of the qualified candidates will then be submitted to jury members for their evaluation. Based on this evaluation Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman will select the winner.

Application Date and Process

• Click on the link to the application website to nominate an individual and click here to resume nominations.

Before starting compiling the nomination, PLEASE PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE MAXIMUM CHARACTERS ALLOWED.

A nomination is considered complete only if includes all of the following information/material:

• Nominator contact details;
• Nominee contact details (self nominations and nominations from jury members will not be considered) and general information on the nominee, including the country where he/she has been working and living in the past 2 years;
• Authorization from the nominee (i.e. the candidate) to process his/her personal data for the purposes of his/her nomination, in conformity to Art. 13 of the Italian Legislative Decree 196/2003. This authorization can only be submitted through the online platform. The privacy authorization form is available for download in the section ‘nominee’s personal data’. The form must be filled in and signed by the candidate and then uploaded onto the on-line platform;
• Suggested citation (15-20 words highlighting the nominee's scientific achievements in Chemistry);
• Supporting statement regarding the nominee’s contribution in Chemistry. Supporting statements should explain in detail the work performed by the candidate and its significance in the relevant scientific context. Clear reference should be made to the scientific impact of the nominee's work. Vague supporting statements will not be considered and will negatively affect the evaluation;
• Clear and detailed account of any time spent abroad by the nominee in the past two years;
• PhD: information on subject area, year and awarding institution;
• Brief information on membership in academies and societies;
• Brief information on awards and honours received;
• List of 10 most significant publications listed in an internationally acceptable format;
• The nominee's brief CV;
• The nominee's complete list of publications are also to be uploaded, separately, onto the online platform;
• The nominee's h-index in Google Scholar, and its associated number of citations.

PLEASE CHECK IF ENTERED DATA ARE VALID

In particular:

1) While filling in the form, pay attention to the requirements for each field (e.g. maximum number of characters, file type, date format, etc.)

2) Run a check using the button of the form menu to verify that mandatory fields have been filled in and the data you entered are accepted. This also saves your form.
Every time you run a check, you are taken to the last section of the form named "Submit". Use the form menu to navigate to the previous sections.

3) After you run a check, fields with NOT ACCEPTED OR MISSING DATA will be highlighted in RED.
Please note that once you have duly modified the content of one or more fields, the red highlight will not disappear until you run again a check.

For quick tips, please click on: http://onlineforms.twas.org/documents/Applicants_tutorial.pdf

Application Deadline

14 March, 2025

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