Poster Presentation Awards

Poster presentations will be evaluated by the conference judges and the best posters will be awarded a prize. There will be three prizes for poster presentations. The first prize is of 300 Euros and a certificate and the two others are of 100 Euros and certificates. The awarded poster presentations will be announced and given during the Awards session of the conference, on Thursday, June 21.

The Utz-Hellmuth Felcht Award 2013

SGL Group – The Carbon Company established the Utz-Hellmuth Felcht Award in 2010. The Award is granted with 20 000,- Euro.

Honored will be outstanding scientific and technological contributions in the field of carbon materials and related materials. This comprises polygranular carbon and graphite materials, carbon fibers and their composites, applications of carbon and graphite in energy production, energy storage and energy savings, nanoforms of carbon and breakthroughs in manufacturing and new applications. Quintessential contributions in computer modeling of these materials will be considered as well.

In general, the Award will honor a single scientific and technological contribution which provided recent impact of significance on manufacturing and application or has the character of a breakthrough in science.

The Utz-Hellmuth Felcht Award will be presented biennially on the occasion of the International Carbon Conferences which are held in Asia, Europe and the USA on a rotating cycle.

The selection of the awardees is dedicated to an International Award Committee composed of six renowned scientists and persons of high standing in industry.

The nomination submission comprises:

• description of the nominee’s achievement

• curriculum vitae of the nominee

• list of publications / patents

• two letters supporting the nomination by renowned persons familiar with the achievement of the nominee.

Award Committee:

• Prof. Dr. Robert Hurt, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA

• Prof. Dr. Klaus Drechsler, University of Munich, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Utz-Hellmuth Felcht, OEP, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Takayuki Terai, University of Tokyo, Japan

• Prof. Dr. Heinz Voggenreiter, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR), Köln, Germany

• Dr. Gerd Wingefeld, SGL CARBON SE, Wiesbaden, Germany

More about this Award …

The Brian Kelly Award 2012

This prestigious annual award was established in 1996 by the British Carbon Group in memory of Brian Kelly, a leading authority on the physics of graphite to reward excellence in carbon science and technology.

The award is intended as a travel grant for students and early career researchers with up to ten years postdoctoral experience to attend the annual World Carbon Conference. Anyone living or working, at the time of that conference, in the country where the conference is held is not eligible. As a consequence, applications will not be accepted from the Poland on this occasion.

The award is made upon the basis of an appraisal of THREE documents: (1) the extended abstract or paper as submitted to the C2012 conference, (2) a short CV (with the date of the award of PhD if applicable) and (3) a commentary provided normally by the candidate’s supervisor or close colleague. Self-nomination is not permitted. The Award Committee of the British Carbon Group will determine the successful applicant.

The closing date for applications for C2012 will strictly be 4pm BST 20^th April 2012. No submissions after this date will be accepted.

Previous applicants are welcome to re-apply.

The award is currently five hundred pounds sterling (£500) and is presented at the time of the conference with a certificate. It is a condition of the award that the winner attends the conference and presents his or her paper either orally or as a poster.

Applications may be transferred electronically to the Chairman of The British Carbon Group, Dr Gareth Neighbour, at gneighbour@brookes.ac.uk or, exceptionally, mailed to him at the following address:

Dr Gareth Neighbour,
Chairman, The British Carbon Group,
Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences,
Oxford Brookes University,
Wheatley Campus,
Wheatley,
Oxford OX33 1HX,
United Kingdom.

The British Carbon Group (registered charity 207890) is affiliated to The Royal Society of Chemistry, The Institute of Physics and The Society of Chemical Industry.

Previous Winners:

GFEC Award 2012 (Groupe Français d’Etude des Carbones)

At the occasion of the 2009 edition of the World Conference on Carbon hosted by France, the French Carbon Group (GFEC) has created a new award to recognise a significant contribution to carbon science or carbon technology brought by a „young” scientist or engineer, regardless of his/her country of origin and citizenship, whose awarded work has been carried-out in a laboratory from a country whose official language is French, or by a citizen from a country whose official language is French and whose awarded work has been carried-out anywhere in the world. The laboratory may be academic and public, or from a Company and private. This prize is awarded every year at the occasion of the ongoing World Conference on Carbon.

The enforced conditions for eligibility is that (i) the remarkable results to be awarded should be presented at the forthcoming World Conference on Carbon, i.e., for 2012, the CARBON’12 conference in Cracow (Poland); (ii) the remarkable results to be awarded should be recent, i.e., disclosed not earlier than in 2010 or 2011, if already published; (iii) the recipient of the Award has to attend the CARBON conference and give the related lecture in person.

The award will be given by the current Chair of GFEC upon the recommendation of the GFEC Award Committee, at any appropriate time allocated by the Organising Committee of the ongoing CARBON Conference.

The GFEC award will include a one-time money prize of 1000 € (one thousand Euros).

Nominations are now sought for the award. The award is made upon the basis of an appraisal of TWO documents (pdf format preferred):

(1) An Abstract of at least 4 pages, so that the Committee can fairly assess the quality and originality of the work. It can be the Extended Abstract as it was or will be submitted to the CARBON conference in due time. It can also be the reprint of the related article if already published.

(2) A commentary provided by the „Nominator”, typically a close colleague, or the candidate’s supervisor if applicable. That the nominee is the main author of the work proposed should be clearly ascertained, as well as the reason why the nominee if fully eligible.

The nomination may come from anyone in the world, but should be made under the cover of any of the members of the GFEC Award Committee known by the Nominator, or directly sent to the current Chair of GFEC, Marc Monthioux  <marc.monthioux@cemes.fr>).

The closing date for nominations for the GFEC Award is now extended to March 9th, 2012, in order to better match the deadline agenda of the Carbon Conference.

Applicants will be informed of the selection by the GFEC Award Committee by March 31st, 2012.

ECA Award 2012 (The European Carbon Association)

In 2009, the European Carbon Association (ECA) has created a new award to recognise