ICFA is pleased to announce the 2024 ICFA Instrumentation Awards. The Awards are bestowed annually to recognize exceptional contributions to instrumentation that has advanced the field of particle physics.
The ICFA Instrumentation Early Career Award recognizes achievements in instrumentation made at an early career stage by an individual, or group of individuals, that has the promise to make, or has already made, an advance in the field of particle physics. The early career stage is taken to be 15 years from the award of the Ph.D. or other terminal degree, properly accounting for career interruptions. The PhD date is the date that the PhD was awarded, not the date that the thesis was defended. The time that has elapsed since the PhD was awarded is calculated from the year that the nomination call is made, not the year in which the deadline for nominations falls. Accordingly, for the 2024 award nominees are eligible if the PhD was awarded in 2008 or later.
The ICFA Instrumentation Award recognizes achievements in instrumentation by an individual, or a group of individuals, that has made an advance in the field of particle physics. This award recognizes either a technology development (for example the 2022 award recognized the development of Micro Pattern Gas Detectors, and the 2021 award recognized development of advanced low-noise electronics instrumentation, in particular for liquid argon technology) or a multi-faceted contribution including a technology development and also one or more of the following: community organization, training, outreach or technology transfer. While past achievements form the main basis for the award, the potential for future instrumentation developments may also be considered.
Submission Process
Individuals or groups of individuals are to be nominated by Noon (Central European Time) February 26, 2024 at https://indico.cern.ch/e/ICFA_Instrumentation_Award. Self-nominations are not permitted. The nomination package must include the following:
- A nomination letter of not more than 10,000 characters;
- A biographical sketch or CV for each individual included in the nomination;
- A list of the most important publications pertaining to the nomination;
- At least two, but not more than three supporting letters of not more than 5,000 characters each.
Nominations will remain active for three years. A nominator may view their nomination made in a previous year at the above page from the sidebar option "Edition 2023” or “Edition 2022”. The particle physics community is diverse and global, so the nominees should reflect this. The nomination of women and other underrepresented groups in the particle physics community is therefore strongly encouraged.
Award Ceremony
The 2024 Award recipients will be invited to give a presentation at the 16th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors in Isola d’Elba, May 26 – June 1, 2024. For the following edition of the awards, the lectures will be held at:
- Vienna Instrumentation Conference, 2025.
- Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics (TIPP), 2026.
Review and selection process
The review committee for the 2024 awards are the members of the ICFA Instrumentation, Innovation and Development Panel.
For questions about the awards please contact ian.shipsey@cern.ch (Chair of the ICFA Instrumentation, Innovation and Development Panel).
