TWAS-Lenovo Science Prize 2018

Deadline: April 16, 2018

The TWAS-Lenovo Science Prize 2018 is open for nominations. The TWAS-Lenovo Science Prize is one of the most prestigious honours given to scientists from the developing world. In 2018 the prize will be given for outstanding achievements in Engineering Sciences.

Lenovo is a US$45 billion global Fortune 500 company and a leader in providing innovative consumer, commercial, and enterprise technology. Its portfolio of high-quality, secure products and services covers PCs (including the legendary Think and multimode YOGA brands), workstations, servers, storage, smart TVs and a family of mobile products like smartphones (including the Motorola brand), tablets and apps.

The rapid growth Lenovo has recently experienced in emerging markets has prompted the company to partner with TWAS to launch a high-level prize to give international recognition and visibility to individual scientists in the developing world for their outstanding scientific achievements.

Field

During the first four-year cycle (2013-2016), the prize subject focused on the basic sciences, with the specific subject area changing each year: physics and astronomy (2013), biological sciences (2014), mathematics (2015) and chemical sciences (2016). During the second four-year cycle (2017-2020) the prize subjects will be: Geological Sciences (2017), Engineering Sciences (2018), Agricultural Sciences (2019), Social Sciences (2020).

For the 2018 edition of the prize, TWAS will consider candidates with world-class achievements in Engineering Sciences.

Eligibility

•  Candidates must be nationals of a developing country and must have lived and worked in a developing country for the last 10 years.
• The prize will only be awarded to individuals for scientific research of outstanding international merit carried out at institutions in developing countries.
• Jury members and previous winners of the Trieste Science Prize (also administered by TWAS) are not eligible for the TWAS-Lenovo Science Prize.

Nomination

• Nominations are invited from TWAS members, selected individuals, as well as from science academies, national research councils, universities and scientific institutions.
• Nominations of women scientists are particularly encouraged.
• Self-nominations and nominations from jury members will not be accepted.

For more information, visit TWAS-Lenovo Science Prize.