EOS Early Career Women in Photonics Award
The EOS Early Career Women in Photonics award is presented to honor a young female scientist who has made outstanding contributions to photonics.
The award consists of a diploma and an honorarium of (€2500). The award will be presented in 2021 at an award ceremony at the CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2021, held within the World of Photonics Congress during 20 - 24 June 2021.
Eligibility:
Any woman, EOS member, active in the field of photonics, with not more than 10 years after obtaining her PhD, may apply for the award.
How to apply:
Candidates should send the completed application form along with a list of supporting documents.
Send the supporting documents combined into ONE file (pdf preferred), by the end of submission deadline.
Submission is now closed. We thank all the applicants for applying!
Please see below the list of supporting documents:
1. One letter of support,
2. A biography/CV (max 2 pages),
3. A list of publications,
4. A description of the contribution (max 1 page of A4, 12-point text), making clear the contribution to photonics.
For more information, please contact Elina Koistinen, EOS Executive Director, [email protected],
or the Award Committee Chair M.Teresa Flores-Arias, [email protected].
Deadline for Applications: 24 May 2021 by 23:59:59 CEST (extended from 18 May)
Submission is now closed. We thank all the applicants for applying!
Background to Award
EOS Early Career Women/Entrepreneur in Photonics awards were launched in 2015 to honor the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015 (IYL2015), which was a global initiative adopted by the United Nations to raise awareness of how optical technologies promote sustainable development and provide solutions to worldwide challenges in energy, education, agriculture, communications and health. The awards were part of the activity of the LIGHT2015 project. In its launching year, the awards were known as LIGHT2015 Young Women in Photonics/Young Photonics Entrepreneur Awards.
The Early Career Women in Photonics Award is presented to honour a young female scientist who has made outstanding contributions to photonics.
Learn from the best - past winners' paths to success:
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Lessons learned by renowned Women in Photonics
- On Wednesday, 21 april 2021
In 2015, the European Optical Society (EOS) launched the EOS Early Career Women in Photonics Award to honor a young female scientist who has made outstanding contributions to photonics. Since launching the awards, EOS has closely followed the career paths of the winners.
We will now share with you the backgrounds, motivations and individual career paths of the winners along the years, with priceless advice and guidance for those who follow in their footsteps. A clear consensus derived from the individual discussions with the women and the advice to others persuing a career in photonics is clear: "Work hard and focused, be brave and network every chance you get."
We hope the paths of these successful women will inspire you to find and follow your passion.
Award Winners from previous years
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Camille-Sophie Bres |
2016
The Early Career Women in Photonics Award went to Camille-Sophie Brès, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) for her outstanding research and work on Fiber and Waveguide Optics.
The award consisted of a diploma and an honorarium of €2500.The award was presented at the European Optical Society Biennial Meeting (EOSAM) in Berlin, Germany, 27 September, 2016.
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Laura Na Liu |
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2015
The Young Women in Photonics award was divided into two categories due to the high level of applicants. The Young Women in Photonics Awards went to Laura Na Liu (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) in the Fundamental category and Nathalie Vermeulen (Photonics Team (B-PHOT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)) in the Applied/Engineering category. The awards consisted of a diploma and an honorarium of €2500.The awards were presented at the World of Photonics Congress in Munich, Germany, June 2015.
Special recognition was given to two other outstanding applications: Francesca Calegari (National Research Council of Italy – Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies (CNR – IFN) and Camille-Sophie Bres (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)).
EOS interviewed Nathalie Vermeulen, one of the winners back in 2015, to see where she is now and how her career has progressed. Read the article here: 
Women in photonics nathalie