Call for application: the APA Prize for young scientists 2025

The Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association (APA) recognizes young scientists by creating the APA-Prize for Young Scientists.
The following are the guidelines for the Prize and the list of requirements for the application.

• Photo-scientists who are less than 40 years ( ≤ 39) of age as at the end of December of the year (2025) are eligible for this prize (born after January 1, 1986).
• The number of prizewinners should be a maximum of three within a period of one year.
• The prize shall be of a value of ca. US$500 per scientist and will be awarded to assist attendance at the forthcoming Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Conference (Scheduled on the autumn of 2026).
• The reviewing and selection of the prizewinner shall be based upon the application and his/her selected papers (maximum of five) published in the past five years.
• The criteria used in the review process should include the originality, impact, and novelty of the candidate’s scientific activity. Other factors such as the balance of research field, regional area, as well as a consideration of the infrastructure/scientific environment surrounding the candidates should also be taken into account in the review process.
• The candidates should apply for the prize by themselves and should submit a signed application form (APA-Y-1) by airmail and an unsigned copy (pdf) by the upload system (https://asianphotochem.org/award/2025/), to the APA office. The airmail and upload file should be distinguished with “APA-Y2025” on the surface and the file name. The file size should be within 20MB. Application forms (APA-Y-1) will be available on the APA website (http://www.asianphotochem.com/).
• A maximum of five selected papers published within the past five years (in pdf) should be sent by e-mail to the APA office.
• The APA councilors will be the reviewers for the prize and the prizewinners shall be decided by a vote among the APA Councilors.

  Award	Guideline	Application Form
  The APA Prize for Young Scientists	Click Here	Click Here (Form Y-1)

Schedule for the APA-Prize for Young Scientists:

May 15, 2025

Announcement and call for applications for the award.

July 15, 2025

Deadline for nomination.

August 2025

Decision of the prizewinners.

The autumn of 2026

The prizewinners shall be awarded at the APC.

Address of the APA office

All correspondence should be sent to the APA office.

Prof. Shinsuke TAKAGI,
Secretary-Treasurer of APA
The Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association

Department of Applied Chemistry
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Minami-Ohsawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan
    E-mail: takagi-shinsuke@tmu.ac.jp
    Phone: +81-426-77-2839