The Peter Debye Prize

for Young Investigators for

Excellence in Dielectric Research

Regulations concerning The Peter Debye Prize

Purpose: The Peter Debye Prize for Young Investigators for Excellence in Dielectric Research is established to encourage and support young scientists to continue research in Dielectric Spectroscopy and its applications. To be eligible for this prize, the nominee should be under the age of 36 years. Exceptions from this rule are allowed.

•  The award is a certificate of achievement accompanied by a cash prize of 1000 euro, finances permitting.
• The prize is given only for scientific work which is already published or which is in press (as proven by a letter of acceptance).
• Candidate nomination. Candidates can be nominated by any IDS member or be self-nominated. The nomination, together with the candidate's Curriculum Vitae, a listing of the candidate's publications and one copy of each of the papers under consideration for the Debye Prize should be sent by email to the Award Committee chairperson (listed below). In the case of publications under joint or multiple authorship, the candidate should include a brief statement of the input made by the candidate in each of those publications. Candidates may be nominated anytime but the deadline is 30 June 2010 for the receipt of a nomination by the Award Committee chairperson, together with all materials relevant to the nomination, to be considered for the Award at the 2010 IDS Conference in Madrid, Spain.
  
  The nomination documents should be submitted in electronic format, either Microsoft WORD® 2007 or pdf.  Please note that all submissions are requested to be handled by email as opposed to paper mail.  If an applicant thinks they will have a problem with this procedure, please contact Professor Graham Williams by email ( g.williams6013@ntlworld.com ). In the unlikely event of difficulties in June with this email route, contact jberberi@sju.edu  .

All nominations with relevant materials for the award should be sent to:
Prof. Graham Williams, Award Committee Chairperson.
Email: g.williams6013@ntlworld.com

• Award Committee. The Award Committee consists of 3 committee members: the Award Committee chairperson, a member of IDS and a member of the organizing committee for the next IDS meeting. The Award Committee chairperson is responsible for notifying the IDS board of the winner of the prize in advance of notifying the successful candidate. Members of the Award Committee must be free of any direct relationship (personal, member of the same research team, etc.) to any of the nominees. The chairman of IDS has the duty to make sure that this rule is strictly fulfilled.
• Evaluation process: The Award Committee is responsible for the process for evaluation of the nominated scientific work and to verify the eligibility of the candidates. As part of the evaluation process, the Award Committee is encouraged to involve scientists from outside the society in judging the quality of the nominated research. The final decision however will be made by the Award Committee.
• Award announcement: The Award Committee is responsible for formulating a presentation statement about the scientific work and the scientist chosen as the winner of the Debye Prize.
• Resources. The award is financed by IDS surpluses, and/or from other available sources. If the foreseeable available resources are considered insufficient, the prize will not be awarded for the period of time in question.
•  The Debye Prize is awarded to the prize-winner at the occasion of the biannual meeting of IDS.