Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale / International Union of Radio Science

Young Scientists

Purpose

The Young Scientist Awards are presented at the General Assemblies of URSI and at the URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conferences (AT-RASC) to recognize an international group of individuals who have made innovative contributions and discoveries in multidiscipline research related to electromagnetic fields and waves.
The General Assemblies of URSI and the URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conferences (AT-RASC) are both held every three years (interleaved with each other) to review current research trends, present new discoveries and make plans for future research and special projects in all areas of radio science, especially where international cooperation is desirable.

The Young Scientist Awards are presented at the occasion of the Young Scientists Party at teh URSI Flagship events. This is an informal networking event where the Young Scientists can meet with eachother but also with the more senior members in URSI, such as URSI Board members, URSI Commission Chairs, Vice-Chairs and ECRs.

GASS 2023 Sapporo - Young Scientist Party

(zip-file with all pictures taken at GASS 2023 YS Party) (size approx. 2,5 Gb)

History

In the International Council for Science (ICSU) URSI has two significant distinctions. Among the 26 international "single discipline " scientific unions it is one of the very few multidisciplinary unions. This happened because URSI was one of four original international scientific unions forming in 1919 the International Research Council, the predecessor of ICSU. A second distinction is its young scientist program. It is the largest within ICSU and URSI is frequently held up as a good example to the other unions in this regard. How did this come about?

Professor Sam Silver, URSI president from 1966 to 1969, introduced the young scientist program. At an URSI board meeting in February 1967 he proposed "each national committee nominate one or two young research workers in their countries who should be specially invited by the president of URSI to attend the general assembly. This would be a tremendous encouragement for young people and would stimulate their interest and participation in the work of the union. Moreover this should contribute to bringing fresh talent to the general assembly." He also proposed a special fund to facilitate the participation of young scientists at URSI general assemblies.

To appreciate the significance of this proposal it is necessary to recall that URSI general assemblies were much smaller than now and were closed to all but a limited number of official delegates invited by the member committees. These were mainly internationally established scientists and research administrators. This gave the general assemblies considerable mystique for younger scientists who were excluded. The first general assembly I "attended " was at University College, London in 1960, when I was finishing my Ph.D. Other graduate students and I slipped into the darkened lecture hall to see and hear the famous senior colleagues whose papers we had been studying. I similarly "attended" my second URSI general assembly in Ottawa in 1969, along with other uninvited colleagues from Ottawa laboratories concerned with radio science.

In his 1969 presidential address Prof. Silver recognised that it was "important to the union to bring to its assembly the fresh ideas and the idealism of young people. For if the union has no ear for the aspirations and interests of the younger scientists, it will ossify out of complacency and by crystallisation of patterns of thought." It was also important to help advance science and technology in developing countries. This was explicitly the duty of UNESCO, but the unions of ICSU should both participate and provide support. Prof. Silver pointed out that "bringing the young scientists to the assembly is a way for the URSI to contribute to this program of the service of science to humanity." In a Dec. 1971 URSI Bulletin article Prof. Silver indicated that as far as he was concerned, this consideration was the main motivation for the young scientists scheme at Ottawa. The scheme also helped initiate major changes in the nature of URSI general assemblies, which only later became open to all who wished to attend.

Eighteen young scientists designated by thirteen member committees from smaller and developing countries were supported by travel grants totalling $10,000 from URSI funds at the 1969 Ottawa general assembly. Also member committees were asked to include in their delegations some research workers of age 25-35 years. These came supported by their countries or on research grants. The success of the 1969 young scientists scheme prompted the URSI board to repeat it at the Warsaw general assembly in 1972 with grants totalling $11,000 for 14 young scientists from the following member countries: Australia (4), Brazil (2), India (2), Nigeria (3), South Africa (1), Sweden (1) and USA (1); that is about half from developing countries and half from industrialised countries. This balance was intended to encourage collaboration among young scientists from different backgrounds and was maintained at later general assemblies.

At the general assemblies in Lima (1975) and Helsinki (1978) there were no young scientist programs. The reasons for this are not recorded explicitly in the general assembly proceedings for these years but evidently financial and organisational changes in URSI severely limited the resources available for the program. Also by then general assemblies were open to all radioscientists regardless of whether they were invited delegates or even from member nations, so growing numbers of both young and older scientists were attending in any case.

The program was revived and enlarged at the 1981 Washington general assembly where 24 young scientists from 17 countries were supported by grants of $300 each from ICSU. Further support was provided by USNC/URSI, and travel allowances for some of the 12 from developing countries were received from COSTED, the ICSU committee on science and technology for developing countries. For the first time young scientists from the Soviet block countries appeared at an URSI general assembly held in the West: 3 from the USSR and 2 from Poland. This contingent was to grow substantially in general assemblies from 1990, as is evident in the accompanying figure. A party held for the young scientists became traditional at subsequent general assemblies. At Washington there was no requirement for a young scientist to present a paper and only two young scientists names appear as co-authors in the scientific program, all papers of which were by invitation only. It was still an exclusive honour to present a paper at an URSI general assembly.

At Florence in 1984 the program was enlarged to 47 invitees from 33 countries by A.P. Mitra, who became URSI president (1984-1987) and a strong proponent of URSI support for developing countries, and Jean Van Bladel, who, during his term as secretary general (1979-1993) and ever since, has been a major contributor in time and effort to the success of the young scientist program. About half of the young scientists were from developing and socialist countries and received support for their travel from ICSU and COSTED. The Royal Society of London also provided funds from an account remaining from the 1960 general assembly. A source of young scientist applicants from African developing countries was found among those attending radio propagation courses at the Third World Academy of Sciences in Trieste. URSI provided all the young scientists with free registration at the general assembly and the hosts provided accommodation and living expenses. Since there were now open symposia associated with the general assembly, 9 of their names were on papers presented in the regular program. There was also a special session for those who wished to give a paper but did not have a place in the regular program.

Forty-seven young scientists from 23 countries were invited to Tel Aviv in 1987, but the accompanying figure shows fewer attendees. Usually young scientists must arrange for their visas and travel expenses, for which they are reimbursed at the general assembly. Inevitably a few are unable to do this in time and do not appear. There were two parallel special sessions of papers by young scientists chaired by URSI president (1987-1990) Alex. Cullen and vice- president S. Okamura.

Prague in 1990 was a watershed for the URSI young scientist program and indeed for URSI general assemblies for with a relaxation of travel restrictions on our Soviet colleagues there was record attendance. The numbers of official young scientists more than doubled because the local organisers, under URSI vice president V. Zima, offered to accommodate 100 young scientists at the general assembly. These extra numbers of course required extra effort from the URSI secretariat and extra sources of travel funds for those from developing countries. In addition perhaps a hundred more young scientists arrived from the east, mainly Russia and Ukraine, at their own expense and were accommodated and supported by the hosts. It was a tradition among the socialist countries that the local academies of sciences hosted visiting scientists from other countries at their conferences but the scale of this at Prague could have stretched the generosity of the hosts almost to the limit. At the reception and at the young scientists dinner party they appeared en masse and the Czechs, good at improvisation, hastily made extra arrangements. Most of the official awardees had indicated on their application forms that they wished to present a paper and for them 44 places were found on the regular program. For the rest there were 8 parallel sessions with a total of 60 papers, the abstracts of which appeared in a volume 3 of the proceedings. In addition some of the unofficial young scientists made presentations at the end of these lengthy sessions following the regular afternoon sessions and chaired by URSI commission chairmen and board members. The quality of most of these papers was high and many were excellent but attendance at these sessions was disappointing because most of the potential audience were too exhausted from a day already full of scientific sessions.

At Prague the first standing committee on young scientists was formed to recommend to the board ways in which the program could be improved. Previously it had been the responsibility of the URSI secretary general and a member of the URSI board. The numbers of applicants, especially from the former socialist countries, had increased greatly and URSI felt it should respond. Fortunately its financial position allowed a further expansion of the young scientist program, not only at general assemblies but also at symposia between them. In 1992 for example about 20% of URSI’s income was used for this purpose, distributed partly directly by the secretariat but increasingly by allocating funds to the commissions. It should be pointed out that URSI support for young scientists between general assemblies had been increasing for some time. Between Florence and Tel Aviv partial support of some kind was provided by URSI to 32 young scientists from 18 different countries to attend 13 different conferences. Between Tel Aviv and Prague these numbers grew to 67 young scientists from 34 different countries at 15 different meetings. Some of this support came from the conference fees, for example that at the triennial commission B symposium on electromagnetic theory, where in 1989 11 young scientists, 6 from East Europe and the USSR, were accommodated in Stockholm. By 1992 32 young scientists from East Europe, Russia and Ukraine alone were supported at the URSI symposia organized by commissions B and C and 7 were helped to attend URSI sponsored conferences.

In 1990 those bidding for the 1993 general assembly were asked how many young scientists they could accommodate and support. Professor Okoshi, representing the Japanese organising committee for Kyoto in 1993, proposed 120. In spite of their changing economic conditions between 1990 and 1993, this number was upheld by the Japanese organisers. It has been maintained subsequently because at about 10% of the total general assembly registration it was found to be about the limit of the resources URSI and the host country had available for the program. A major change in 1993 is that there were no special sessions for young scientists: all their papers were accommodated in the regular program. This required program organisers who acted quickly to inform the URSI secretariat of the program so young scientist selection could begin and awardees notified in time to complete their visa and travel arrangements. Fortunately at Kyoto we had efficient organisers in Professors Matsumoto and Kimura, but in spite of improved fax and email communications this timing has sometimes been a source of difficulty for a few of our young scientists.

With this change, acceptance and delivery of a paper on the regular program became a necessary condition for an award, with geographical distribution and financial need secondary considerations. A survey of young scientists at Kyoto indicated that most preferred to be selected primarily on the basis of the scientific merit of their paper. Then an URSI young scientist award rightly became something to include in one’s resume. It was of course almost impossible for the three individuals involved in the selection process to accurately assess the relative merits of all the applicants, particularly those in commissions different from their own. So all URSI member committees were asked to rank the applicants from their countries. A few member countries had been doing this earlier but by the 1996 general assembly at Lille 88% of the 238 applications examined by the selection committee had been ranked. This ranking was adhered to in selection with a few exceptions such as if the applicant’s paper was not in the program or if there was a previous young scientist award. Unranked applicants were usually from countries with few applicants or from countries not members of URSI and their numbers were small enough to be dealt with by the selection committee. In another change implemented at Lille applicants were considered on the basis of the countries in which they were working or studying rather than on their citizenship or origin as they sometimes were earlier.

Current

Commission H

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Barik, Krushna Chandra

A 3-Dimensional Picture of Energy Transport in Fast Flows Through Earth's Magnetotail

Commission G

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Beeck, Sarah

Isolation of ionospheric events in GNSS phase scintillation observations

Commission K

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Blazic, Anja

The influence of Lidocaine on cell membrane permeabilization and cell survival after electroporation

Commission H

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Boardman, Samuel

Extending Quasilinear Theory for Particles Near 90Â°

Commission K

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Bonnafont, Thomas

Modeling of a biological cell exposed to an electrical pulse: a Discrete Dual Finite Volume method application

Commission B

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Carvalho, Saul

Assessing the Feasability of Metallic-type FDM 3D Printed Antennas at K-band

Commission A

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Chaves, Henrique

Development of Adaptable Feedback Channel for Wireless Power Transmission Systems

Commission H

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Chen, Jing

Simulation of Near-distance Propagation of Artificial ULF Source in Anisotropic High Ionosphere

Commission B

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Chen, Menglin

Topologically Protected Electromagnetic Waveguiding in All-Dielectric Meta-Waveguides

Commission K

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Colella, Micol

Computational dosimetry on military crew exposed to HF vehicular antenna in near field condition

Commission G

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

De Souza, Ana

TEC calibration to detect equatorial plasma bubbles with single frequency GNSS data

Commission F

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Diago-Mosquera, Melissa

Two-Frequency mmWave Measurement-Based Modeling for Stadium Coverage

Commission H

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Drastichova, Kristina

Whistler Mode Waves Observed by DEMETER and Kannuslehto: Spatial Extent and Propagation to the Ground

Commission H

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Ember, Winry

Quantifying the Effects of Electron Shot Noise on a Current Biased Antenna

Commission K

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Fontana, Sara

Microdosimetry of ÂµsPEFs exposure on advanced stem cells 3D models in microfibrils' scaffolds

Commission J

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Ghidoni, Rebecca

Integrating LOFAR and GNSS data for ionospheric perturbation analysis on the January 2022 storm

Commission G

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Ivonin, Vladimir

Modification of IRI-2016 source code: improvements, parallelization

Commission B

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Jenkins, Connor

Analytical Model for Three Resonant Element-Based Magnetoinductive Waveguides

Commission B

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Johnson-Richards, Christian

Equal Power Splitting in a 6-Port Valley Photonic Crystal Junction

Commission A

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Jones, Terrence

Benchmarking the Developed Timescale at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica with NIST and CENAM

Commission H

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Kolinska, Andrea

**SPC* Post-Return Stroke VHF Electromagnetic Activity in North-Western Mediterranean CG Flashes**

Commission J

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Kovaleva, Maria

Mutual Impedance Matrix Extraction from Embedded Element Patterns of the Murchison Widefield Array

Commission C

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Kumar, Ajeet

Closed-form Solution for Accurate Estimation OF in Hybrid-Polarimetry SAR for Oil Spill Monitoring

Commission J

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Kumari, Sangita

Dynamics of Eclipse Environment: Cut-off Frequency and Orbital Phase Dependent Polarisation Study for PSR J0024-7204 and PSR J1431-4715

Commission J

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Kurapati, Sushma

Tracing the Local Void and its substructure with MeerKAT

Commission J

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Kyriakou, Georgios

Impact of Antenna Load on Embedded Element Patterns in Aperture Arrays: the Single Fault Case

Commission H

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Linzmayer, Vaclav

Lightning-Induced Energetic Electron Precipitation Observed in Long-Term DEMETER Spacecraft Measurements

Commission B

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

MacDonald, Ross Glyn

Exploiting waveguide-based metatronic circuits for partial differential equation solving

Commission K

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Mariano, Valeria

Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease via Microwave Sensing Technique Applied to the Neck

Commission H

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Mis, Tomasz

FSK radio communication below 3 kHz using HAARP ionospheric excitation

Commission B

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Mishra, Mohit

An Idea to Reduce the Mutual Coupling in Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna for MIMO Applications

Commission J

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Murthy, Suma

Complex organic molecules in the circumnuclear disc of a young radio galaxy

Commission E

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Nishiyama, Hikaru

Fundamental Study on Methods of Protecting Cryptographic Modules from IEMI Fault Injection Using Spread Spectrum Clocking

Commission B

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Niu, Chen

Synthesis of Aperture Fields for Transmissive Metasurface Design from 3D Masks Using Deep Learning

Commission D

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Ortiz Ruiz, Sergio

Dual-Band Ambient UHF Energy Harvesting with Tunable pi-Matching Network for Ultra-Low-Power Edge Nodes in IoT

Commission B

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Patinavalasa, Megh Sainadh

A wideband reconfigurable frequency selective surface switching among transmission, absorption, reflection, and rasorber operations

Commission E

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Quanxin, Li

Measurements and Simulations of Precursory Pulses from Altitude-Triggered Lightning Associated with Wind Turbine Blade on the Ground

Commission G

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Sui, Yun

Assessment of the 2022 Hunga-Tonga Volcanic Eruption's Impact on the Ionosphere in the Chinese Region through Tomography

Commission B

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Taillieu, Jerome

High Data-Rate Sub-THz Coherent Near-Field Wireless Links Enabled by Spline-profile Bessel Launchers

Commission A

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Tankala, Hemalatha

Semi-Elliptical Slotted UWB MIMO Antenna with Multiple Notch Characteristics and High Isolation

Commission A

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Thakran, Monika

Quantum Phenomena driven SI Traceable E-Field Measurement of Broadband Stripline

Commission B

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Thummaluru, Sreenath Reddy

Investigation on Frequency Selective Surface to Mitigate the Mutual Coupling and Radar Cross Section in MIMO Antenna

Commission B

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Tognolatti, Ludovica

Highly Directive Holey Photonic Crystal Leaky-Wave Antennas using Low-Permittivity Materials

Commission F

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Veenus, Venugopal

Evaluating the impact of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption on Brewer-Dobson circulation: Inferences from Aura Microwave Limb Sounder

Commission K

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Wagih, Mahmoud

Experimental Evaluation of Sub-6 GHz On/Off-Body LoS and NLoS Links based on Textile Single-Wire Transmission (SWTLs)

Commission C

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Wu, Linlong

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Radar for Anti-Jamming and Target Detection

Commission D

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Yang, Furong

A High-Gain Wideband U-Slot E-shaped Patch Antenna for On-Body Wireless Energy Harvesting Applications

Commission H

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Yuan, Shanfeng

Lightning VHF Polarization Imaging of Recoil Leaders

Commission F

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Zhang, Peize

From Propagation Channel to Radio Channel: Beamforming Impact on Millimeter-Wave and Sub-Terahertz Wireless Transmission

Commission B

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Zhang, Xinyue

Advanced FDTD Subgridding: A High-Efficiency Algorithm Leveraging Model Order Reduction for Arbitrary Grid Refinement Ratios

Commission J

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Zhou, Dejiang

Searching for Fast Radio Transients with FAST

Commission D

URSI AT-RASC 2024 Young Scientist Award

Zhu, Paikun

A Highly-stacked Quantum-dot Mode-locked Laser Comb with 106-GHz Mode Spacing Enabling 4.48-Tb/s IM-DD Transmission Capacity

Commission F

Paper

URSI GASS 2021 Young Scientist Award

Chakraborty, Arnab

Indian Institute of Technology, Indore (IIT Indore), India

CLEAN removes the RFI bias in SKA-1 Low detection of Cosmic Reionization - a view from simulations

Commission F

Paper

Empirical virtual height characteristics of ionospheric and ground scatter observed by the mid-latitude Christmas Valley SuperDARN HF radars

Commission B

Paper

URSI GASS 2021 Young Scientist Award

Thummaluru, Sreenath Reddy

Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India

A Multifunctional SIW Filter Based Interweave and Underlay Cognitive Radio System

Commission H

Paper

URSI GASS 2021 Young Scientist Award

Urbani, Michele

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Strong temporal correlation between high-energy emissions and the most intense VHF pulses in negative cloud-to-ground lightning

Commission B

Paper

URSI GASS 2021 Young Scientist Award

URSI GASS 2021 Young Scientist Award

Zubair, Muhammad

Information Technology University, Pakistan

A Compact Cesaro Fractal EBG-Based Liquid Sensor for Dielectric Characterization

Commission B

Paper

Presentation

Commission B

Paper

URSI AT-RASC 2015 Young Scientist Award

Zhao, Huapeng

Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

Iteration-Free Phase Retrieval For Amplitude-Only Near To Far Field Transformation

2014

The 2014 Young Scientists Awards were given to:

COUNTRY	GRANT	NAME	COM
AUSTRALIA		Dr. Stephen R. PARKER	A
BELGIUM		Dr. Bart KUYKEN	D
BELGIUM		Dr. Sam AGNEESSENS	B
BRAZIL	YES	Dr. Felipe P. CORREIA	F
CANADA		Dr. Nima CHAMANARA	D
CANADA		Dr. Puyan MOJABI	B
CHINA CIE	YES	Assoc. Prof. Tian JIN	B
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Guozhu LI	G
CHINA CIE	YES	Prof. Feng XU	F
CHINA CIE	YES	Assoc. Prof. Qing-He ZHANG	G
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Feng ZHOU	F
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Liang ZHOU	E
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Wei MIAO	J
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Zheng WANG	J
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Xiaodong YANG	C
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Gang CHEN	G
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Wenhua CHEN	C
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Zhen CAO	C
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Haisheng ZHAO	G
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Wei Xiang JIANG	B
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Lianlin LI	B
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Hang LONG	C
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Chee Wei TAN	C
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Hua TANG	D
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Congsi WANG	A
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Yongle WU	C
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Jinbao ZHANG	C
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Huishan FU	H
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Feng ZHANG	A
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Yongpin CHEN	BD
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Yun GONG	G
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Yue LI	BCD
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Shi-Wei QU	B
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Wei-Jun WU	E
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Shen YIN	D
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Lan DU	CD
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Qimei CUI	C
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Ke GUAN	C
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Xueying HOU	C
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Jing HUANG	J
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Wenlong LIU	H
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Yuanjie LV	D
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Sheng SUN	CD
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Xu BINGJIE	DA
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Linglong DAI	BCD
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Qiubin GAO	BDC
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Ran HAO	D
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Bin LUO	DA
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Lirong MEI	B
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Yuhang WAN	D
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Xiaoxiao WANG	D
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Kui XU	C
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Biqiang ZHAO	G
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Tianjie ZHAO	F
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Kang WU	A
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Shengqi ZHU	D
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Yiran MA	D
CHINA CIE	YES	Dr. Wei WANG	J
CZECH REPUBLIC		Dr. Jan BOHATA	D
CZECH REPUBLIC		Dr. Eva MACUSOVA	H
COTE D'IVOIRE	YES	Dr. Soro I. COULIBALY	G
EGYPT	YES	Dr. Hend A. MALHAT	B
EGYPT	YES	Dr. Sara Hassan KAMEL	C
FINLAND		Dr. Joni VEHMAS	B
FINLAND		Dr. Tommi RIMPILÄINEN	B
FRANCE		Dr. Sebastien CELESTIN	H
FRANCE		Dr. Chaouki KASMI	E
FRANCE		Dr. Antoine AZAN	K
GERMANY		Dr. Svenja SOMMER	G
GERMANY		Dr.Simon ADRIEN	B
GERMANY		Dr. Robert MÜLLER	F
GREECE		Dr. Charilaos KOUROGIORGAS	C
INDIA	YES	Dr. Saurabh DAS	F
INDIA	YES	Dr. Chandan MAITY	G
INDIA	YES	Dr. Biswajeet MUKHERJEE	D
INDIA	YES	Dr. Anwesha MUKHERJEE	B
INDIA	YES	Dr. Mala S. BAGIYA	G
INDIA	YES	Dr Archita BANERJEE	B
INDONESIA	YES	Dr. Paramita Eka Wahyu LESTARI	G
INDONESIA	YES	Dr. Daru BRILYANTARTO	C
INDONESIA	YES	Dr. Indah KURNIAWATI	G
ISRAEL		Dr. Matan LEIBOVICH	B
ITALY (*)		Dr. Fabio MANGINI	B
ITALY (*)		Dr. Giacomo BACCI	C
ITALY (*)		Dr. Davide BIANCHI	B
ITALY (*)		Dr. Alessandro CANDIANI	D
ITALY (*)		Dr. Roberto CASO	B
ITALY (*)		Dr. Filippo COSTA	B
ITALY (*)		Dr. Muhammad KHALID	B
ITALY (*)		Dr. Andrea MICHEL	B
ITALY (*)		Dr. Marco MUZI	K
ITALY (*)		Dr. Gabriele RODEGHIERO	J
ITALY (*)		Dr. Giovanna SIGNORILE	A
ITALY (*)		Dr. Nicola TEDESCHI	B
JAPAN		Dr. Ting WU	E
JAPAN		Dr. Tung NGUYEN	B
JAPAN		Dr. Jerdvisanop CHAKAROTHAI	K
KUWAIT		Dr. Shameena V A	B
MALAYSIA	YES	Dr. Suhaila Binti M BUHARI	G
MALAYSIA	YES	Dr. Siat Ling JONG	F
MOROCCO	YES	Dr. Hafid GRIGUER	C
MOROCCO	YES	Dr. LALJ HICHAM	C
NETHERLANDS		Dr. Ajinkya H PATIL	J
NEW ZEALAND		Dr. Aaron T. HENDRY	H
NEW ZEALAND		Dr. Siamak DEHGHAN	J
NIGERIA	YES	Dr. Samuel T. OGUNJO	F
PAKISTAN	YES	Dr. Kamran MUKHTAR	G
PERU	YES	Dr. Carla A. ARCE	J
POLAND		Dr. Lukasz SZYDLOWSKI	D
POLAND		Dr. Oksana GRYNYSHYNA-POLIUGA	G
PORTUGAL		Dr. Raquel C. CONCEICAO	K
PORTUGAL		Dr. Filipa R PRUDÊNCIO	B
RUSSIA		Dr. Dmitry V. VALOVIK	B
RUSSIA		Dr. Anna S. ZAITSEVA	B
RUSSIA		Dr. Maxim Vladimirovich KLIMENKO	G
RUSSIA		Dr. Daria Sergeevna KOTOVA	G
RUSSIA		Dr. Gregory A KURBATOV	G
RUSSIA		Dr. Natalia A. EFIMOVA	B
SINGAPORE		Mr. Sumedh Somnath DHABU	C
SINGAPORE		Dr. Huapeng ZHAO	B
SOUTH AFRICA	YES	Dr. Sylvain Malan AHOUA	G
SOUTH KOREA		Dr. Bo PU	E
SWEDEN		Dr. Mariana DALARSSON	B
SWEDEN		Dr. Iman VAKILI	B
SWITZERLAND		Dr. Earl ZASTROW	K
TURKEY		Dr. Behnam GHASSEMIPARVIN	B
TURKEY		Dr. Omer BAYRAKTAR	F
TURKEY		Dr. Mehmet UNLU	D
TURKEY		Dr. Mehmet KURUM	F
TURKEY		Dr. Ilhami UNAL	K
TURKEY		Dr. Aysun SAYINTI	K
UKRAINE		Dr. Olesia CHARKINA	G
UKRAINE		Dr. Denys NATAROV	B
UKRAINE		Dr. Nadiia P. STOGNII	D
UNITED KINGDOM		Dr. Yuan DING	C
UNITED KINGDOM		Dr. Kristof COOLS	B
UNITED KINGDOM		Dr. Sean ELVIDGE	C
USA		Dr. Lunjin CHEN	H
USA		Dr. Shasha ZOU	G
USA		Dr. Andrew P. V. SIEMION	J
USA		Dr. Zhen PENG	B
USA		Dr. Wen LI	H

Note: Thanks to the generous support received from te Italian URSI member Committee, a larger number of Young Scientists originating from Italy can be supported.

2011

The 2011 Young Scientists Awards were given to:

COUNTRY	GRANT	NAME	PAPER	COM
AUSTRALIA		Mr. Jun Yi KOAY	1322	J
AUSTRALIA		Dr. Sarah B. SPOLAOR	1703, 1710	G, J
BELARUS	X	Dr. Mohammed Shaker MAHMOUD	1782	K
BELARUS	X	Miss Halina PUKHIR	1300	K
BELGIUM		Mr. Brecht Mj FRANCOIS	1288	C
BELGIUM		Dr. Dries VANDE GINSTE	1164	E
BRAZIL	X	Ms. Danielle C.M. AMORIM	1247	G
BRAZIL	X	Mr. Luís Olavo Toledo FERNANDES	1101	J
CANADA		Dr. Said M MIKKI	1268	B
CANADA		Miss Attieh SHAHVARPOUR	1865	B
CHINA	X	Dr. Qi-Feng LIU	1084	B
CHINA	X	Dr. Xiang PENG	1418	D
CHINA	X	Ms. Dan SHI	2070	E
CHINA	X	Dr. Qi WU	1124	E
CHINA	X	Dr. Jinhua YU	1726	B
CHINA	X	Dr. Shengqi ZHU	1118	F
COTE D'IVOIRE	X	Mr. Jean-Baptiste ACKAH	1222	G
COTE D'IVOIRE	X	Mr. Oswald Franck Didier GRODJI	1220	G
DENMARK		Dr. Ivan BONEV	1894	B
EGYPT	X	Mrs. Noha Ossama EL-GANAINY	1431	C
EGYPT	X	Dr. Heba A. SHABAN	2159	K
EGYPT	X	Mr. Sherif A. SHAKIB	2144	B
FRANCE		Mr. Julien N. GIRARD	1387	J
FRANCE		Mr. Edgar HADDAD	1461	F
FRANCE		Mr. Ziad I KHALAF	2126	C
FRANCE		Dr. Christophe LEMOINE	2037	E
FRANCE		Dr. Romain SIRAGUSA	1578	D
GERMANY		Mr. Evgeni GENENDER	1606	E
GERMANY		Mr. Martin JACOB	1474	B
GERMANY		Mr. Abdul Aleem JAMALI	2099	B
GREECE		Mr. Georgios D. BOUZIANAS	1356	E
GREECE		Mr. Theseus G. PAPADOPOULOS	1411	B
INDIA	X	Dr. Poonam ARORA	1440	A
INDIA	X	Mr. Rikmantra BASU	1182	D
INDIA	X	Dr. Vineeth CHANDRASEKHARAN NAIR	1230, 1231	G
INDIA	X	Ms. Goutami CHATTOPADHYAY	1874	F
INDIA	X	Dr. Sushrut DAS	1121	B
INDIA	X	Dr. Debashis DE	1484, 1771, 1835	C
INDIA	X	Dr. Arijit DE	1777	B
INDIA	X	Mr. Vishalkumar GAJJAR	1452	J
INDIA	X	Mr. Sujith RAMAN	1481	B
INDIA	X	Dr. Debadatta SWAIN	1842	F
INDIA	X	Dr. Smitha V. THAMPI	1691, 1720	G
INDIA	X	Dr. Pranalee P THORAT	1205	A
INDONESIA	X	Mr. Fikih Fiddin AMRULLAH	1843	F
INDONESIA	X	Miss Sri EKAWATI	1117	G
IRAN	X	Mr. Mojtaba KHOSRAVI FARSANI	1528	E
IRELAND		Dr. Martin J. O'HALLORAN	2255	K,B
IRELAND		Dr. Anna SCAIFE	1814, 1816	J
ISRAEL		Mr. Yan KAGANOVSKY	1035	B
ITALY		Dr. Alice CERNIGLIARO	1824	A
ITALY		Mr. Loreto DI DONATO	2173	B
ITALY		Mr. Paolo MANFREDI	1617	E
JAPAN		Dr. Shouhei KIDERA	1135	B
JAPAN		Mr. Taisei MOTOMURA	1524	H
JAPAN		Dr. Mitsunori OZAKI	1250	E
JAPAN		Mr. Masafumi SHOJI	2107	H
JAPAN		Dr. Satoru YOSHIDA	1323	E
NETHERLANDS		Dr. Nauman F KIYANI	1376	D
NORWAY		Dr. Brant E CARLSON	1932, 1933	G,H,E
PERU	X	Miss Nadia Patricia YOZA	2124	G
POLAND		Mr. Slawomir Jerzy AMBROZIAK	1303	F
PORTUGAL		Dr. Pavan S KULKARNI	1872	F
RUSSIAN FEDERATION	X	Mr. Ilya K. EDEMSKIY	2039	G
RUSSIAN FEDERATION	X	Miss Anastasia GORBUNOVA	2097	B
RUSSIAN FEDERATION	X	Mr. Maxim KONOVALYUK	2086	F
RUSSIAN FEDERATION	X	Miss Natalya M. SHMELEVA	1221	H
RUSSIAN FEDERATION	X	Dr. Irina E. ZAKHARENKOVA	2152	G
SAUDI ARABIA		Dr. Mohamed A. SALEM	1557, 1559, 1560	B
SINGAPORE		Dr. Krishna AGARWAL	2171	F
SOUTH AFRICA	X	Mr. Brett DELPORT	1005	H
SOUTH AFRICA	X	Mr. Chigomezyo NGWIRA	1077	G
SOUTH AFRICA	X	Ms. Marlie M VAN ZYL	1011	H
SOUTH AFRICA	X	Dr. Pieter Gideon WIID	1607	E
SOUTH KOREA		Dr. Maifuz ALI	1526	B
SWITZERLAND		Dr. Jason MCEWEN	1613	J
SWITZERLAND		Dr. Nicolas MORA	2038	E
TAIWAN		Dr. Subrata K DAS	1251	F
TURKEY		Mr. Hüseyin ALTUN	2177	C
TURKEY		Mr. Husnu Deniz BASDEMIR	1146	B
TURKEY		Dr. Ali EKSIM	1810	C
TURKEY		Miss Senem MAKAL	1263	B
TURKEY		Dr. Erdem T SENALP	1171	G
TURKEY		Ms. Handan Çerdik YASLAN	1724	B
TURKEY		Mr. Enes YIGIT	1897	F
UKRAINE	X	Dr. Ievgeniia IERMAK	1286	K
UKRAINE	X	Mr. Artem A. KOVAL	1126	J
UKRAINE	X	Mr. Iurii LEVADNYI	1813	F
UNITED KINGDOM		Dr. Ozgur ERGUL	2218	B
UNITED KINGDOM		Ms. Zama T KATAMZI	1587	G
UNITED KINGDOM		Dr. Ian SCOTT	1496	E
UNITED KINGDOM		Dr. Rajesh TIWARI	2087	G
UNITED STATES		Dr. Nicholas L BUNCH	1984	H
UNITED STATES		Dr. Morris B COHEN	1904, 1955	H, E
UNITED STATES		Mr. Jonathan A COX	2167	A
UNITED STATES		Dr. Robert Andrew MARSHALL	1180	G
UNITED STATES		Mr. Harish RAJAGOPALAN	1979	B
UNITED STATES		Dr. Yu-Jiun REN	1045	B
UNITED STATES		Dr. Ilgin SEKER	1154	G
UNITED STATES		Dr. Kagan TOPALLI	1853	B
UNITED STATES		Dr. Keely WILLIS	1648	B

2008

The 2008 Young Scientists Awards were given to:

COUNTRY	GRANT	NAME	PAPER	COM
Australia		Dr. Maxim A. Voronkov	1527	J
Australia		Dr. Jean-Michel Le Floch	1404	A
Australia		Dr. Sarah Loughran	2414	K
Austria		Dr. Nicolai Czink	1431	C
Belarus	X	Dr. Pavel Siamashka	1661	G
Belgium		Mr. Jürgen De Zaeytijd	1604	B
Brazil	X	Ms. Glaucia C. Balvedi	2101	F
Canada		Mr. Colin Gilmore	1780	K
Canada		Mr. Symon Podilchak	1509	B
Canada		Mr. Shulabh Gupta	1323	B
Canada		Mr. Amir Hajiaboli	1391	K
Canada		Mrs. Robyn Fiori	1512	G
Canada		Dr. Ning Yang	2135	D
China	X	Dr. Wei Wang	1402	J
China	X	Ms. Yan Wang	2062	B
China	X	Ms. Dan SHI	1141	E
China	X	Ms. Li Jinghua	1572	G
China	X	Mr. Bin Chen	1728	H
Cote d'Ivoire	X	Mr. Niangoran Mene	1546	G
Croatia		Mr. Sinisa Skokic	2398	B
Czech Republic		Mr. Frantisek Nemec	1044	H
Czech Republic		Mr. Michal Cifra	1494	K
Czech Republic		Mr. Daniel Kouba	2290	G
Egypt	X	Dr. Mohamed Eldosoky	2087	K
Egypt	X	Miss Amina El-Zein	1904	C
France		Mr. Anthony Ghiotto	1989	D
France		Mrs. Emmanuelle Conil	2342	K
France		Ms. Souhir Gdoura	1435	B
France		Mr. Boubacar Kante	1639	D
France		Miss Rym Feliachi	1724	J
France		Dr. Geraldine Garcia	1960	H
France		Mr. Adel Metref	2489	C
Germany		Mrs. Yvonne Weitsch	1651	B
Germany		Miss Sandra Knoerzer	1362	F
Germany		Mr. Tobias Renk	1420	C
Germany		Mr. Holger Thye	1609	E
Germany		Mr. Qiang Li	1500	G
India	X	Mr. Gijo Augustin	2343	B
India	X	Dr. Suman Sharma	1261	A
India	X	Mr. Yatendra Singh	1640	B
India	X	Dr. Amar Kakad	1623	H
India	X	Dr. Abhijit Mitra	1004	C
India	X	Ms. Harsupreet Kaur	2458	D
India	X	Mr. Mukul, K Das	2394	D
India	X	Dr. Karanam kishore kumar	1560	G
India	X	Mr. Tulasi Ram Sudarsanam	1009	G
India	X	Mr. Vinod Kumar	1750	E
Iran	X	Mr. Mohammad Khorrami	2096	E
Israel		Mr. Emil Winebrand	1717	B
Italy		Dr. Ilaria Catapano	1608	B
Italy		Dr. Simone Paulotto	2113	B
Italy		Dr. Flavia Grassi	1975	E
Italy		Dr. Giancarlo Cerretto	1338	A
Italy		Dr. Caterina Merla	2502	K
Japan		Mr. Jianping Zheng	2280	B
Japan		Mr. Kensuke Sasaki	1251	B
Japan		Dr. Kotaro Niinuma	1268	J
Japan		Dr. Tomohiko Mitani	1588	H
Japan		Dr. Yuki Ashihara	1923	H
Japan		Dr. Hidekatsu Jin	2739	G
Japan		Dr. Takeshi Morimoto	1634	E
Japan		Mr. Sachiko Yamaguchi-Sekino	1891	K
Japan		Dr. Tomoaki Nagaoka	1589	K
Netherlands		Mr. Ousmane Sy	2523	B
Netherlands		Dr. Shanmugha Sundaram	1751	J
Netherlands		Ms. Anne Roc'h	2786	E
New Zealand		Mr. Rory Gamble	1318	H
Nigeria	X	Mr. Joseph Ojo	1283	F
Norway		Dr. Rico Behlke	1277	G
Pakistan	X	Miss Madeeha Ashfaque	1196	G
Peru	X	Mr. Jesus Dalmau	2690	J
Peru	X	Mr. Henry Pinedo	2198	G
Poland		Dr. Adam Lamecki	1621	B
Russian Federation	X	Mr. Vasiliy Es'kin	1080	H
Russian Federation	X	Mr. Alexander Laktyunkin	1072	B
Russian Federation	X	Mr. Artyom Nickishov	1425	C
Russian Federation	X	Mr. Yuri Yasukevich	1107	J
Russian Federation	X	Dr. Dmitry Mansfeld	1635	H
Russian Federation	X	Miss Maria Sergeeva	2157	G
Russian Federation	X	Dr. Elena, Skorodumova	1291	B
Russian Federation	X	Mr. Timophey Shevgunov	1611	D
Singapore		Dr. Chengwei Qiu	1951	D
South Africa	X	Miss Sherry Bremner	1139	H
South Africa	X	Mr. Chrispin Mulangu	2275	A
Spain		Miss Arànzazu Sanchis Otero	1452	K
Spain		Mr. Yuri Alvarez Lopez	1538	B
Sweden		Mr. Christian Sohl	1162	B
Switzerland		Mr. Felix Vega	2303	E
Taiwan		Dr. Chien-hung (Charles) Lin	1567	G
Turkey	X	Dr. Cumali Sabah	1198	B
Turkey	X	Mr. Celal Alp Tunc	1643	C
Uganda	X	Mr. John Bosco Habarulema	2107	G
Ukraine	X	Mr. Volodymyr Byelobrov	1655	D
Ukraine	X	Mr. Yuriy Cherniak	1461	G
United Kingdom		Dr. Dawei Zhou	1470	B
United Kingdom		Dr. Chan See	1294	B
United Kingdom		Mr. Peiqing Xia	2115	E
United States		Prof. Shayan Mookherjea	2647	B
United States		Prof. Vitaliy Lomakin	2784	B
United States		Prof. Nader Behdad	1106	B
United States		Prof. Gregory H Huff	1498	B
United States		Dr. Michael Nicolls	1760	G
United States		Dr. Robert Moore	2298	E
United States		Dr. Hans-Peter Marshall	1553	F
United States		Prof. Dongning Guo	2761	C
United States		Dr. Chia-Chin Chong	1189	C
United States		Dr. Ningyu Liu	1836	H
United States		Dr. Vincent Fish	1800	J
United States		Dr. Bogdan Popa	1372	B
United States		Dr. Olga Pechony	1126	E
United States		Dr. Songming Hou	1259	B
United States		Dr. Shing Yang	1296	B
United States		Dr. Hakan Bagci	1705	B
United States		Dr. Caglar Yardim	1331	F
United States		Dr. Timothy Chevalier	2730	G
United States		Dr. William Barott	2230	J
United States		Dr. Heng Yang	2024	G
United States		Dr. Anup Prasad	2716	F
United States		Dr. Stanley Briczinski	2563	G
United States		Dr. Serhat Altunc	1064	E
United States		Dr. Chen Chen	2662	H
Zambia	X	Mr. Patrick Sibanda	1164	G

2005

During the 2005 General Assembly in India, the Awards were given to:

Selected Young Scientists from developed countries

Australia: J.D. Anstie, D.A. Mitchell, Nasimuddin, I.V. Shadrivov, K.S. Yau
Belgium: F. Darrouzet
Canada: J.R. Bray, R.J. Riddols, J. van Leeuwen
China R.O.C.: C.-C. Lee, Y.-S. Lin
Czech Rep.: M. Grabner, J. Soucek, P. Valtr
Finland: S.N. Dudorov, P.M.T. Ikonen
France: S.N. Burokur, A. Collin, C.M.D. Dumez-Viou, F. El-Lemdani Mazouz, S. Grimald, A. Hadjem, C. Ricard, F. Roudet, A. Trigunait
Germany: T. Kistner, W. Sörgel
Greece: P.-D. M. Arapoglou, A. Panagopoulos
Israel: E. Greenberg
Italy: A. Alu, F.F. Azzarello, P. Coisson, L. Crocco, G. Lovat, D. Polimeni, G.M. Trianni, F. Vipiana
Japan: R. Higashi, M. Hikishima, K. Ishisaka, Y. Katoh, K. Maeda, T. Miyake, Y. Miyake, M. Ozaki, L.E. Rodriguez, K. Shin, T. Sonoda, T. Tosaka, Y. Ueda, H. Ujihara
New Zealand: R.J. McCormick
Norway: A. Stromme
Singapore: X. Dong
Spain: F.J. Garcia Ruiz
Switzerland: A. Vukicevic
U.K.: S. Callaghan, S.D. Gunashekar, K. Sasloglou, D. Tsiklauri
U.S.A.: J. Bortnik, A. Buerkle, C. Chang, W.J. Chappell, L.P. Dyrud, I.A. Eshrah, E.A. Gerken, N. Kanekar, N.G. Lehtinen, S. Padmanabhan, A.R. Parsons, L. Subramanian, S.A. Tabatabaeenejad, M. Tedesco, T. Umeda, F. Yang

Selected Young Scientists from developing countries

Argentina: E.S. Gomez
Belarus: N.V. Kolbun , V.B. Trigubovitch
Brazil: H.C. Aveiro, J.L. Cerqueria, A.B.V. Oliviera
China: Y. Chen, B.-B. Ni, Y. Shen, Z. Xu
Egypt: M.M. Gad, N.T. Messiha
Fiji: A.N. Kishore
Hungary : J. Bor
India : see below
Indonesia: G. Hendrantoro
Ivory Coast: K.Z. Zaka
Malaysia: S.W. Harun, C.-H. Teh
Nigeria: O.S. Oyekola
Pakistan: S. Ali
Peru: R.R.I. Campana
Russia: E.I. Astafieva, A. Kim, I.A. Kolmakov, L.V. Kuzmin, V.A. Moshkova, A.V. Oinats, I.Y. Sergeev, O. Shishkova, A.I. Skazik, M.V. Tolstikov, S. Voeykov, L.N. Zakharavo, A.V. Zhuravlev
Slovakia: R. Bucik
South Africa: A.B. Collier
Turkey: V.B. Erturk

The following Young Scientists from India were selected :

M. Aggarwal, A.L. Ahuja, A. Begum, A. Bhattacharya, P.P. Bhattacharya, M. Bhattacharya, R. Bhattacharya, M. Biswas, S. Chatterjee, P.K. Dalela, S.S. Das, D. De, V.P.K. Devulapalli, A.K. Dwivedi, S. Ganesh, R. Ghatak, S. Ghude, A. Guha, M. Joseph, D.D. Kandar, V. Koul, D. M. Magdum, A. Omar, S. Pal, A. Patnaik, R.K. Raj, H.K. Deva Sarma, K. Singh, T.K. Ramkumar, G.H. Vichare.