Announcement

ANNOUNCEMENT

GANIL will issue the first “GANIL PhD Award” to distinguish an outstanding PhD thesis in Nuclear Physics. The prize will reward PhD work devoted to theoretical and experimental nuclear physics studies and technological developments related to GANIL (e.g., experiments performed at GANIL). Of course, candidates can be from all the laboratories of the international community. This reward will now be awarded every three years.

The deadline for proposal submission is the 19th May 2011.

The GANIL PhD Award is endowed with 1500 € and will be presented to the winner at the XVII^th Colloque GANIL (Belgodère, Corsica, France, September 25^th to 30^th, 2011), where the laureate will have the opportunity to present his work.

Eligibility of applications

The jury will consider PhD theses in Nuclear Physics defended between January 1st, 2008 and April 15th, 2011.

Evaluation of the submitted proposals will be carried out by an Award Evaluation Board, which consists of high-level scientists in nuclear physics. All proposals will be evaluated by three evaluators according to the following criteria:

- Scientific quality,

- Scientific impact for the field,

- Originality and novelty of the subject,

- Quality of related publications.

Schedule of the PhD Award call February 2011	Announcement of the call
February 2011 – April 15^th 2011	Submission of proposals
19 May 2011	Deadline for proposal submission
May- June 2011	Evaluation and information about the evaluation results
26 Sept. – 30 Sept. 2011	Award Presentation Ceremony: XVII^th Colloque GANIL

Application

To be considered, the candidate is asked to provide the jury with the following information:

A copy of the PhD thesis (regardless of language)
An extended abstract (5 pages) of the dissertation; this abstract should be written in English and should include precise keywords,
The report of the PhD defense or if not available a recommendation letter by a member of the PhD jury.
Two letters of recommendations, supporting the submission and stating their assessment of why the thesis should win the award.
An up-to-date CV of the candidate (max 2 pages), including a list of publications.

No nomination will be considered without these items.

All information should be submitted electronically to phdaward@ganil.fr

Contact

Christine Lemaitre

GANIL

BP 55027

14076 CAEN cedex 5

France

Email: phdaward@ganil.fr

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