Young Investigator Award 2024

During the BioSB 2024, we will present the 15th edition of the BioSB Young Investigator Award. The winner will receive a voucher of 500 Euros sponsored by the BioSB research school (to be spent on conference or course participation of own choice) and will be invited to present an honorary lecture in the plenary programme.

The submission deadline is set to April 12, 2024. 

All nominees will of course be contacted by the conference organizers. Notification of the winner of call for nominations is set to 3rd May 2024.

Criteria

The candidate must have conducted his/her bioinformatics or systems biology research primarily in a Dutch institute. The primary result on which the award will be based will be the PhD thesis written by the candidate. Therefore, the final version of the thesis of the candidate should have been submitted to the PhD reading committee at the candidate's university on April 12, 2024 at the latest.

Other criteria that might be considered by the award committee are:

• The candidate significantly contributed to the idea of the research;
• The research of the candidate resulted in novel or improved bioinformatics or systems biology methodologies;
• The research of the candidate advanced life sciences research;
• The candidate independently conducted the research;
• The research resulted in a scientific publication, software application or database;
• The work of the candidate has given broad visibility of bioinformatics or systems biology in the life sciences field;
• The candidate has otherwise significantly contributed to bioinformatics/systems biology or the bioinformatics/systems biology community in the Netherlands.

Procedure

Each nomination must be accompanied with:

• Name and affiliation of candidate
• Motivation for nomination by group leader of candidate
• Curriculum Vitae of the candidate
• An URL to the final version of the PhD thesis (preferably to the PDF of the printed version)

The application is closed

Young Investigator Award committee

The 2024 members of the award committee are:

• Aalt-Jan van Dijk, Wageningen University & Research (ORCID)
• Jana Weber, TU Delft (ORCID)
• Anna Heintz Buschart, UvA)(ORCID)
• Marnix Medema, Wageningen University & Research (ORCID)

Last year's award winner: Soufiane Mourragui 

The selection committee of the BioSB Young Investigator Award 2023 unanimously chose Soufiane Mourragui as the winner of the BioSB Young Investigator Award 2023. 

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