The 5th Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young Investigator Award is provided by Elsevier to honor the best paper by a young scientist which has been published in volumes 13-22 EML from 2018 to 2019.
Extreme Mechanics Letters (ISI-indexed) publishes rapid communication of research that highlights the role of mechanics in multi-disciplinary areas across materials science, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and engineering; with an emphasis on the impact, depth and originality of new concepts, methods and observations at the forefront of applied sciences.
The award is made annually to the corresponding authors of the paper who received her/his Ph.D. no more than 10 years prior to the year of award. Corresponding authors who have yet to receive a Ph.D. will also be considered.
The prior EML Young Investigator Awardees are:
2015: Michael C. McAlpine, University of Minnesota, USA; Xuanhe Zhao, MIT, USA
2016: Robert F. Shepherd, Cornell University, USA; Kejie Zhao, Purdue University, USA
2017: Jie Yin, Temple University, USA
2018: Lihua Jin, UCLA, USA; Xiaoyan Li, Tsinghua University, China
The deadline for nominations for the 5th EML Young Investigator Award is October 15th, 2019. Thank you for logging in, please complete the form that has appeared below.