The BLCS Young Scientist Award is normally presented annually for significant research contributions to the field of liquid crystals. Candidates must normally be within 10 years of beginning their PhD and should be active members of the Society, working in the UK at the time of their nomination. Nominees will have been awarded their PhD in the UK in some area of liquid crystal science or technology or they will have made significant contributions to liquid crystal science in the UK, perhaps after a PhD in another country or in another field. The Award is open equally to those from academic and industrial backgrounds.<\/p>\n
The recipient will give an oral presentation of the work that forms the basis for the Award at the Annual Conference of the Society and a description of this work, written by the recipient, will appear in the Society’s Newsletter.<\/p>\n
The Award takes the form of a cheque for \u00a3250 and a certificate.<\/p>\n
Candidates require both a nominator and a seconder. The nominator should be a member of the Society. The nomination will take the form of no more than one side of A4, plus a CV (max two sides of A4) and a list of the nominee’s publications. Part of the nomination must include a statement by the nominator identifying clearly the nominee’s independent contributions to the work on which the nomination is based.<\/p>\n
Details of the nomination process can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Previous BLCS Young Scientists:<\/b><\/p>\n 2026: Thomas Raistrick The BLCS Young Scientist Award is normally presented annually for significant research contributions to the field of liquid crystals. Candidates must normally be within 10 years of beginning their PhD and should be active members of the Society, working in … Continue reading
\n2025: Calum Gibb
\n2024: Yuan Shen & Ewan Cruickshank
\n2023: No award
\n2022: Joseph Cousins
\n<\/em>2021: Devesh Mistry
\n2020: Rebecca Walker
\n2019: Markus Wahle
\n2018: No award
\n<\/em>2017: Daniel Corbett & Richard Mandle
\n<\/em>2016: No award
\n<\/em>2015: Mamatha Nagaraj
\n<\/em> 2014: Gareth Alexander
\n2013: Sarabjot Kaur
\n2012: Apala Majumdar<\/em>
\n2011: Verena G\u00f6rtz<\/em>
\n2010: Steve Morris<\/em>
\n2009: No award<\/em>
\n2008: No award<\/em>
\n2007: Paul Brimicombe<\/em>
\n2006: Xiangbing Zeng<\/em>
\n2005: Sharon Jewell<\/em>
\n2004: Nicholas Roberts<\/em>
\n2003: Owan Lozman<\/em>
\n2002: Lesley Parry-Jones<\/em>
\n2001: No award<\/em>
\n2000: Nigel Mottram<\/em>
\n1999: Martin Bates<\/em>
\n1998: Richard Miller<\/em>
\n1997: Diana Ulrich<\/em>
\n1996: Guy Bryan-Brown<\/em>
\n1995: Andrew Emerson<\/em>
\n1994: Cliff Jones<\/em>
\n1993: Corrie Imrie<\/em>
\n1992: Mark Wilson<\/em>
\n1991: Stephen Elston<\/em>
\n1990: Duncan Bruce<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"