ISPC 26
Award nomination information
Young Investigator Award
The Young Investigator Award (YIA) recognizes the outstanding career of a young researcher in the field relevant to the International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC). Up to two YIAs will be announced during the conference dinner of ISPC 26.
The nomination requirements and procedure for the YIA are as follows:
- The candidate must hold a PhD degree and be within ten years of receiving his/her Ph.D. degree.
- Anyone who knows the candidate’s research career well can nominate him/her for the YIA.
- The nominator must submit a nomination letter (one-page maximum) and a CV of the candidate.
- The nomination letter should clearly state the past achievements of the candidate.
- The candidate should have an accepted oral or poster contribution to ISPC 26.
- No self-nominations will be accepted.
Email nomination to the president (Prof. Bruce Locke -
Student Excellence Award in Plasma Chemistry
To recognize the important contributions of students to the plasma chemistry field, the ISC and LOC will make one award and one runner-up award to student oral presenters at ISPC 26. Finalists for the award will be announced on the meeting website before the meeting. The award recipients will be announced during the closing ceremony of ISPC 26. The award and runner-up award consists of cash (500 USD) and a certificate.
To be eligible for the award, the student must present a contributed oral presentation as the first author, must be a current student or have defended their dissertation not earlier than May 15, 2025. The application materials must be submitted by the advisor to Prof. Marien Simeni (
The application should contain:
- A copy of the student's abstract selected as oral contribution to ISPC 26
- A three-page-maximum curriculum vitae of the student
- A one-page nomination letter from the supervisor
Best Poster Presentation Award
The ISC and LOC will recognize two student poster presenters at the closing ceremony of ISPC 26. The award consists of a cash (250 USD) prize and a certificate.
To be eligible for the award:
- The student must present a poster as the first author.
- The register for the poster judging by sending an email to Prof. Marien Simeni (
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) before April 15, 2025. The email should include a copy of the abstract and the name of the advisor.
Student self-applications are to be submitted to this Google Form not later than May 15, 2025. For questions, please contact Prof. Marien Simeni (
The LOC is grateful to Advanced Energy Industries, Inc for sponsoring the student awards.
Awards
2025 Plasma Chemistry Award
The Plasma Chemistry Award is the highest recognition awarded by the International Plasma
Chemistry Society (IPCS) for lifetime achievements in the field of Plasma Chemistry. The Board
of Directors of the IPCS is delighted to announce that the recipient of the 2025 Plasma
Chemistry Award is Prof. David Graves.
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David B. Graves has been part of our community for several decades. He joined the University of California at Berkeley Department of Chemical Engineering in 1986 after receiving the PhD from the University of Minnesota. He retired from UCB in May 2020 and served as Associate Lab Director at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab from 2020-2022. He is currently Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. His research interests are in plasma materials processing and other applications of non-equilibrium, low temperature plasma phenomena. |
2025 IPCS fellows
The title of Fellow of IPCS recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and is conferred by
the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in the
field of Plasma Chemistry. The IPCS aims at awarding the title of Fellow of IPCS to no more
than three percent of its active members. The Board of Directors of the IPCS is delighted to
announce that Profs. Annemie Bogaerts and Peter Bruggeman have been elected as 2025 ICPS
fellows.
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Annemie Bogaerts obtained her PhD in sciences/chemistry in 1996, from the University of Antwerp. After some postdoc years, she became professor in physical chemistry at the University of Antwerp in 2003 and is full professor since 2012. She is head of the interdisciplinary research group PLASMANT. Her research focuses on a better understanding of plasmas for sustainable chemistry and cancer treatment by computer modelling and experiments. Besides the fundamental research, in recent years they are also focusing on more applied research. She is co-founder of four spinoffs from her research group. She is in the editorial board of many journals, and in the ISC of several conferences. She organized the ISPC in Antwerp in 2015, and she was member of the Board of Directors of the International Plasma Chemistry Society (2014-2023), Vice-President (2020-2022) and President (2022-2023). |
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Peter Bruggeman is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and the Ernst Eckert Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He currently also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the High Temperature and Plasma Laboratory. His research focuses on low temperature plasma science and engineering with applications in health and sustainability. He co-edited the 2017 and 2022 Plasma Roadmap contributing to shape research directions for the field of low temperature plasma. He is a founding co-organizer of the US Low Temperature Plasma Summer School. He was member of the Board of Directors of the International Plasma Chemistry Society (2014- 2023) and is the chair of the 2025 ISPC in Minneapolis. |