Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award for Studies of Matter at Extreme High Pressure Conditions Grant

Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award for Studies of Matter at Extreme High Pressure Conditions Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: American Physical Society (APS)
Amount: US $5,000
Last Updated: March 15, 2026

Summary

Overview

American Physical Society The American Physical Society is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance physics by fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and global community dedicated to science and society. APS represents more than 50,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and around the world. APS Honors recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of the global physics community. Guided by our core values, APS Honors encourages nominations that reflect the full range of talent, distinction, and experience in our field, and supports broad canvassing for professional achievement across diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and expertise. Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award for Studies of Matter at Extreme High Pressure Conditions The award recognizes outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions by an early-career scientist to studies of matter at extreme high pressure conditions. This includes static and/or dynamic compressions within the disciplines of Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Earth and Planetary Science, Soft Matter and Biology. The honor is conferred annually and includes of a $5,000 stipend, a certificate citing the contributions of the recipient, and an allowance for travel to an APS meeting to receive the award to deliver an invited lecture at either the biennial SCCM Conference or the APS March Meeting. Nominations are active for three years provided the the nominator re-certifies the nomination before the next deadline and all eligibility criteria are still met.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. The award is open to early-career scientists with at most 10 years of full-time activity between obtaining a PhD and the nomination deadline, allowing for career breaks (e.g. due to child or dependent care, illness, military service, etc.). from all disciplines that engage in research of matter at extreme pressures. Nominations must explicitly state the date that the nominee obtained their PhD, and any career breaks. The prize will be awarded to a single individual either for a single piece of work, or for a sum of contributions.