Awards and Poster Prizes
GEC Early Career Award
Application Deadline: June 2, 2025
Early Career Researchers (< 10.0 years post PhD-defense) represent the future driving force of Low-Temperature Plasma/Collisions Science. The most accomplished individuals in this group will likely become leaders in these fields. Thus, appreciating their work and encouraging them to continue pursuing their careers is a key strategy in strengthening the GEC community.
The Executive Committee of GEC will award one GEC Early Career Award in odd-numbered years to an Early-Career Researcher in low-temperature plasma/collisions science, who has made outstanding contributions to GEC-relevant topics, such as low-temperature plasma science and engineering, partially ionized plasma phenomena, or collision effects in atomic and molecular physics. Early Career Researcher is here defined as less than 10.0 years after the PhD thesis defense. The early career period can be extended to as long as 13.0 years based on documented family leave-of-absenses* that have interrupted research. The award will be $3,000 and a diploma citing the contributions made by the recipient along with hotel accommodation and a waived registration fee to attend the GEC at which the award will be presented. The Award winner will give a presentation on his/her work following presentation of the award. This will be an invited talk. The award will be presented at the banquet.
*Not to be confused with paid time off (PTO) and vacation time, a leave of absence is a way for employees who are experiencing out-of-the-ordinary circumstances to take time off work. Common reasons are childbirth, adoption, caring for an ill family member, serious health conditions or military leave.
Nomination procedure (self-nominations are not permitted). The nomination package must include
Self-nominations are not permitted. The nomination package must include:
- Letter of not more than 5,000 characters evaluating the qualifications of the nominee.
- Abstract and title for the prospective award talk.
- CV of the nominee including the specific date of successful PhD defense.
- Publication list of the nominee including previous GEC-contribution abstracts with author lists.
- At least two, but not more than four, seconding letters
- Explanation for request, if being made, for extending the Early Career performance period.
Selection procedure:
The winner will be determined by the GEC Early-Career Award Committee formed by a senior member of the Executive Committee, who will serve as selection-committee chair. The sole evaluation criterion is scientific excellence in fields relevant to GEC.
The application materials must be submitted through the online portal noon US Central Time (5 pm GMT) on June 2nd, 2025.
GEC Student Award for Excellence
To encourage and recognize the important contributions students make to the Gaseous Electronics Conference, specifically, and to the plasma/atomic-molecular optical science fields, in general, the GEC Executive Committee will recognize one (1) student presenter with the GEC Student Award for Excellence. Finalists will be announced on the meeting website before the meeting and will present their work at the conference. The student award recipient will be announced during the banquet. The award consists of cash ($1,000 USD) and a certificate.
To be eligible for the award, the student must present a contributed talk (not a poster) and must be a current student or have defended their thesis no earlier than April 30, 2025. The application materials must be submitted by the advisor as a single PDF file before the application deadline. No more than one student may be nominated per advisor.
The application should contain:
- a copy of the student's abstract
- a one-page cover letter from the student including, among other aspects, a description of the motivation for doing the research, the relevance of the work to plasma/atomic-molecular optical science, a list of all collaborators on the project, and the scope of the student's contribution to the project
- a two-page-maximum curriculum vitae of the student (including educational background, research experience, professional affiliations, publications, patents, presentations, and awards)
- a one-page nomination letter from the supervisor including, among other aspects, the student's creative contribution to the project, the duration of the student's participation in the project, and unique project-related qualifications of the student
The application materials must be submitted through the online portal by noon US Central Time (5 pm GMT) on June 2th, 2025.
Questions can be directed to Ana Sobota - a.sobota@tue.nl – head of the Student Award for Excellence Committee.
The GEC Student Awards Committee will review the nominations and select the finalists for the Student Award for Excellence. Members of the GEC Student Awards Committee will also serve as judges. Judges will attend the finalists' oral presentations and select the award recipient.
Application Deadline: June 2, 2025
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GEC Student-Poster Prizes
Three student posters will be selected by the GEC Executive Committee and recognized during the banquet. The GEC gratefully acknowledges the important contributions students make to GEC.
Undergraduate students are also encouraged to participate.
To be eligible for the award:
- the student must present a poster as first author
- register for the poster judging before the application deadline
More than one student from the same advisor may apply. At most one student per advisor will be awarded this Poster Prize.
The student application should contain:
- Name and email address of student
- Title of the poster presentation
- The name of the advisor
Student applications are to be submitted to this Google drive application form (Google account is needed) by noon US Central Time (5 pm GMT) on September 22, 2025.
This form is managed by the chair of the GEC 2025 Student Poster Prize Committee, Prof. June Young Kim, Korea University Sejong Campus (juneyoungkim@korea.ac.kr) and Prof. Sanghoo Park, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, sanghoopark@kaist.ac.kr). Please contact them with any questions.
Application Deadline: September 22, 2025
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