European Powder Diffraction Conference

Award for Young Scientists

The EPDIC Award for Young Scientists is assigned at each EPDIC Conference and honours outstanding scientific achievement by young scientists in the field of powder diffraction. The award winner is invited to present a plenary talk at the next European Powder Diffraction Conference. The award has a value of 1,000 Euro and is possible by generous sponsorship of PANalytical B.V. (Almelo, The Netherlands).

The EPDIC Committee of each EPDIC Conference decides who is the winner. Short proposals of candidates containing descriptions of the scientific contributions to be assessed should be addressed to any member of the EPDIC Committee who is asked to make names public within this committee. As a rule, an age limit of 35 applies to the candidates.

The call and the final date for submission of proposals are posted on the web page of each EPDIC Conference and taken up in the corresponding circular.


Recipients of the past EPDIC awards for young scientists:

Award recipient awarded at
Maurizio Bellotto (CISE spa, Milano, Italy) EPDIC-3, Vienna, 1994
Laszlo Petras (TU Wien, Austria) EPDIC-4, Chester, 1995
Malcom I. McMahon (Univ. Liverpool, UK) EPDIC-5, Parma, 1997
Robert E. Dinnebier (Univ. Bayreuth, Germany) EPDIC-6, Budapest, 1998
David Rafaja (Charles Univ. Prague, Czech Republic) EPDIC-7, Barcelona, 2000
Matteo Leoni (Universita' di Trento, Italy) EPDIC-8, Uppsala, 2002
Vincent Favre-Nicolin (University of Geneva, Switzerland) EPDIC-9, Prague, 2004
Irene Margiolaki (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France) EPDIC-10, Geneva, 2006
Andrew L. Goodwin (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) EPDIC-11, Warsaw, 2008


European Powder Diffraction Conference

Award for Distinguished Powder Diffractionists

The EPDIC Award for Distinguished Powder Diffractionists will be assigned for the first time during the EPDIC-11 Conference for outstanding results and/or continued, important contributions to the field of powder diffraction. The award winner is invited to present a plenary talk at the next European Powder Diffraction Conference. The award has a value of 1,000 Euro and is possible by generous sponsorship of Bruker AXS (Karlsruhe, Germany).

The EPDIC Committee of each EPDIC Conference decides who is the winner. Short proposals of candidates containing descriptions of the scientific contributions to be assessed should be addressed to any member of the EPDIC Committee who is asked to make names public within this committee.

The call and the final date for submission of proposals are posted on the web page of each EPDIC Conference and taken up in the corresponding circular.

Recipients of the past EPDIC awards for distinguished powder diffractionists:

Award recipient awarded at
Juan Rodriguez-Carvajal (Institut Laue Langevin (ILL), Grenoble, France) EPDIC-11, Warsaw, 2008