The Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young Investigator Award (YIA) 2024 edition is organized by the journal and Elsevier to honor the best paper by a young scientist. The papers must have been published in volumes 63-69, from 2023 to 2024.
The award is made annually to the corresponding authors of the paper who received their Ph.D. no more than 10 years prior to the year of award. Corresponding authors who have yet to receive a Ph.D. will also be considered and self-nominations are allowed.
The Young Investigator Award winner will receive a certificate, cash prize of 1500 USD, and the opportunity to present their research as part of the EML webinar series. In addition, the winner will be appointed to the Young Advisory Board for 2 years.
The prior EML Young Investigator Awardees are:
2015: Michael C. McAlpine, University of Minnesota, USA; Xuanhe Zhao, MIT, USA
2016: Robert F. Shepherd, Cornell University, USA; Kejie Zhao, Purdue University, USA
2017: Jie Yin, Temple University, USA
2018: Lihua Jin, UCLA, USA; Xiaoyan Li, Tsinghua University, China
2019: Yuhang Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Zheng Jia, Zhejiang University, China
2022: Ruobing Bai, Northeastern University, USA; Emma Lejeune, Boston University, USA; Diego Misseroni, University of Trento, Italy; Xueju Wang, University of Connecticut, USA
2023: Evgueni T. Filipov, University of Michigan, USA; Mingchao Liu, University of Birmingham, UK
The deadline for nominations for the 6th EML Young Investigator Award is October 15st 2024. Please send your nominations by 15 October 2024. Simply email the following information to the journal's publisher Carina Arasa Cid (c.arasacid [at] elsevier.com).
- Name of the nominee;
- The year the nominee received PhD;
- Title and full citation of the EML paper to be nominated;
- A short statement justifying why this paper/nominee should be awarded the EML YIA.
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