EOS Early Career Women in Photonics Award

The Early Career Women in Photonics Award is presented to honour a young female scientist who has made outstanding contributions to photonics. The award consists of a diploma and an honorarium of €2500. The prestigious award ceremony will take place during a plenary session at the 2025 CLEO®/Europe-EQEC conference.

Website: https://www.europeanoptics.org/pages/distinctions/awards/early-career-women.html

Application deadline is 4 April, 2025. 

Eligibility
Any woman, EOS member, active in the field of photonics, within ten years of the completion of their first PhD by 1 Dec 2024, excluding career breaks (e.g. eldercare, maternity leave, adoption), may apply for the award.

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.