The Batchelor Prize, founded and sponsored by the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (awarded under the auspices of IUTAM) is presented once every four years at the International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM), the next occasion being in Daegu, Korea, in August 2024. The prize winner will be announced late in 2023.
Nominations for the 2024 Batchelor Prize are now open.
The deadline for nominations is May 31, 2023, and the winner’s announcement will be made at the end of 2023.
The Prize of $25,000 is awarded every four years to a single scientist for outstanding research in fluid dynamics, recognizing research published during the ten years before the announcement of the award. The intention of the Prize is that younger researchers should be as eligible for consideration as those who are more established and that the work should be of great current interest (for example, an emerging field of application of fluid mechanics or a significant breakthrough in an established branch of the subject).
The Prize winner will be determined by a small committee whose members are internationally distinguished in fluid mechanics.
It is expected that the Prize winner will deliver a lecture at the International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM) and that this lecture will be published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and be made freely available on the Cambridge Core website.
How nominations for the Batchelor Prize work
The nomination process is open to everyone, and nominations should be made via email to JFMprize@cambridge.org. If you would like someone to be considered for the Batchelor Prize, please nominate them using the procedure outlined below:
The nomination should include a brief curriculum vitae of the candidate nominated.
A list of their publications from 2013-2022, with up to 10 of particular distinction marked by an asterisk (there is no requirement that the research was published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics).
A brief (one or two pages) statement of the case for making the award, including the reasons for the selected papers of distinction. A jointly signed statement is acceptable, and further supporting letters are not required.
Conditions concerning the awards of the Batchelor Prize:
Self-nominations will NOT be accepted.
All nominations must be in English.
The decision of the Committee shall be final. Previous winners are not eligible.
Winners of the Batchelor Prize:
The Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics
Founded and sponsored by Elsevier (awarded under the auspices of IUTAM)
The Rodney Hill Prize is presented once every four years at the International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM), the next occasion being in Daegu, South Korea, in August 2024. The Prize winner will be announced late in 2023. The Prize of $25,000 is awarded to a single scientist for outstanding research in solid mechanics.
The research recognized by the Prize shall typically have been published during 2013-2022. Thus researchers should be as eligible for consideration as those who are more established, and the work should be of great current interest (for example, an emerging field of application of solid mechanics or a significant breakthrough in an established branch of the subject).
The Prize winner will be determined by a small committee whose members are internationally distinguished in solid mechanics. It is expected that the Prize winner will deliver a lecture at ICTAM 2024 and that this lecture will also be published in the Elsevier Journal of the winner’s choosing and be made freely available on the journal website.
The nomination process is open to everyone. If you would like someone to be considered for the Rodney Hill Prize, please nominate that person using the procedure outlined below:
- 1.
The nomination should include a brief curriculum vitae of the candidate nominated.
- 2.
A list of his/her publications from 2013-2022 with up to 10 of particular distinction marked by an asterisk (there is no requirement that the research was published in an Elsevier Journal).
- 3.
A brief (one-page) statement of the case for making the award.
To submit a nomination, please email the publisher Dr. Carina Arasa Cid (c.arasacid@elsevier.com), with the above information compiled in one single pdf file. The deadline for nominations is 31st August 2023, and the winner will be announced by the end of December 2023.
Conditions concerning the award of the Rodney Hill Prize:
Self-nominations will NOT be accepted.
All nominations must be in English.
The decision of the Committee shall be final. Previous winners are not eligible.
Past winners of the Hill prize:
2020 Vikram Deshpande
2016 Raymond Ogden
2012 Huajian Gao
2008 Michael Ortiz
* The Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics are founded and supported by Elsevier.