Outstanding Mid-career Award

We are launch­ing a new award, the ‘ESEB – out­stand­ing mid-career award’, repla­cing the pre­vi­ous ESEB Pres­id­ents’ award to improve the bal­ance of ESEB’s awards port­fo­lio across career stages.

The ESEB Out­stand­ing Mid-Career Award recog­nises the sig­ni­fic­ant con­tri­bu­tions of a mid-career sci­ent­ist to evol­u­tion­ary bio­logy. It is open to sci­ent­ists with­in 15 years of com­plet­ing their PhD, account­ing for career breaks. The award is presen­ted to an indi­vidu­al who has made not­able advances in evol­u­tion­ary bio­logy and con­trib­uted to fur­ther­ing ESEB’s Mis­sion, Val­ues and Goals.

The prize (travel, regis­tra­tion and accom­mod­a­tion to ESEB con­fer­ence, with­in a lim­it) will be awar­ded once every two years and the recip­i­ent will be invited to give an address, at the ESEB Con­gress or Joint Con­gress in Evol­u­tion­ary Bio­logy in the same year that the award is made.

To apply

Please com­plete the applic­a­tion form at https://forms.gle/hiGkTH8kmKNqCjqs5 and append a 2‑page CV.

Note that indi­vidu­als can be nom­in­ated by ESEB mem­bers (with approv­al of the nom­in­ee) or may nom­in­ate them­selves. Applic­ants nom­in­at­ing them­selves should be cur­rent ESEB mem­bers or must join the Soci­ety after they were awar­ded in 2027.

Deadline

30 Novem­ber 2026, 23:59 CET

The win­ner will be announced by the end of Janu­ary of each con­gress cal­en­dar year.

Awarding panel

Con­vened by the out­go­ing Pres­id­ent for each award and com­pris­ing two Coun­cil members.