Awards
Nominations for the 2026 Ernst Prize will be considered until April 15, 2026
Nominations for the Varian Young Investigator Award, April 1, 2026
We are inviting nominations for the “Richard R. Ernst Prize in Magnetic Resonance” (The Ernst Prize), named after magnetic resonance pioneer and Nobel Laureate Prof. Richard R. Ernst, which will be awarded at the EUROMAR2026 in Gothenburg to recognize ‘recent beneficial applications of Magnetic Resonance’.
The Ernst Prize is intended to award achievements going beyond fundamental research, for groundbreaking applications of new or of previously known techniques in all areas of magnetic resonance. It is intended for research published within the last three years, although the origins of the ideas and experiments may have been described in previous publications. In special cases, and at the discretion of the Prize Committee, the award may be for cumulative achievements over a longer period of time.
The Ernst Prize is intended to be awarded to a single individual; however, it may be awarded to up to three scientists if the Prize Committee deems that their contributions to the development of the applications are of equal value. Former prize recipients include Alex Pines (2016), Robert Griffin (2017), Claudio Luchinat (2018), Daniella Goldfarb and Angela Gronenborn (2019), Clare Grey (2020), Lucio Frydman and Jan-Henrik Ardenkjaer-Larsen (2021), Harald Schwalbe (2022), Jack Freed and Lucia Banci (2023), Andrew Webb and Bernhard Blümich (2024) and Thomas Prisner (2025)
The Prize comes with a purse of 15,000 Euros; it is sponsored by the Bruker BioSpin Corporation, and is awarded annually at the EUROMAR conference.
Nominations must include and fulfill the following conditions:
Nominations must include the nominee’s name, affiliation, address, phone number, and e-mail
Nominations must include a brief (ca. 200 words) description of the work serving as the basis for the nomination, and a list of relevant publications (~5)
Nominees may not have received the Guenther Laukien Prize in the preceding five years
Self-nominations are not accepted
Nominations for the 2026 Ernst Prize will be considered until April 15, 2026
Nominations should be sent to Lucio Frydman, Chair of the Ernst Prize Committee.
lucio.frydman@weizmann.ac.il
Varian Young Investigator Award
We are inviting nominations for the Varian Young Investigator Award, which honors the legacy of Russell Varian, physicist, inventor, and entrepreneur, and will awarded at the EUROMAR 2026 in Gothenburg.
The Varian Young Investigator Award aims to recognize a single investigator for achievements in any area of magnetic resonance. The prize will be awarded for significant and innovative contributions to instrumentation and/or method development. Emphasis will be placed on science accomplished in independent positions in academy or industry. Previous awardees include Christopher Jaroniec (2017), Alexander Barnes (2019), Paul Schanda (2020), Rina Rozenzweig (2022), Tuo Wang (2023), Alexander C. Forse (2024) and Danila Barskiy (2025).
The award is generously supported by a group of anonymous donors and is presented biennially, alternating between EUROMAR (even-numbered years) and ENC (odd-numbered years). The recipient receives USD 10,000, a commemorative plaque, and delivers a 20-minute lecture at the EUROMAR meeting.
Eligibility
Candidates must be within the first four years of their first independent faculty or industrial position and not more than ten years after their Ph.D.
Nomination
Self-nominations are not accepted; nominations of selection committee members are allowed. Previous winners of a Varian-themed award are not eligible.
Nominations should include:
• Nominee’s name, affiliation, phone, and e-mail
• CV of the nominee
• Nominator’s name, address, phone, and e-mail
• A brief description (max 200 words) of the work forming the basis of the nomination
• Up to five relevant publications
Submit nominations by April 1, 2026, to:
Anne Lesage, Chair of the EUROMAR Board of Trustees
Email: anne.lesage@ens-lyon.fr
In memory of Professor Dr. Raymond Andrew and to honour his pioneering work in the field of magnetic resonance, the AMPERE Group has established the Raymond Andrew Prize. The prize is awarded to young scientists for an outstanding PhD thesis in Magnetic Resonance.
For the Raymond Andrew Prize 2026 the AMPERE Prize Committee is seeking your help in searching for qualified candidates who completed their dissertation during the period of 2024/2025. The prize will be presented during EUROMAR2026 in Gothenburg.
Prize call and previous prize winners can be found at https://www.ampere-society.org/Awards.html (deadline for nominations: February 15, 2026). Email nominations should be addressed to awards@ampere-society.org
Elsevier sponsors four JMR/JMRO Young Scientist Awards at the annual EUROMAR conference, consisting each of a cheque for US $ 500, a one-year electronic subscription to the Journal of Magnetic Resonance, and a Certificate. The awards will be given to graduate students or post-doctoral fellows, whose unsolicited submissions for an oral presentation have been selected based on excellence by the EUROMAR scientific program committee. Before their oral presentations, the awardees are announced as winners of the “JMR/JMRO Young Scientist Awards” by the session chair or an editor of JMR/JMRO.
The Wiley journal Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry (MRC) will sponsor two 150 € awards. They will be awarded by the scientific committee on the basis of submitted abstracts, to outstanding contributions by young scientists working in the development or applications of magnetic resonance in chemistry.
The Shimon Vega Travel Award was established by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel in memory of Prof. S. Vega, who for many decades was an active lecturer and participant at EUROMAR. The travel award consists of $1,000 and is given to a PhD student or postdoctoral fellow researching in the fields of solid-state NMR and/or DNP.
The next prize will be awarded at EUROMAR2026 in Gothenburg.
PhD students and students can apply for "AMPERE - Magnetic Resonance" and “EUROMAR” student travel stipends, 500 €, which will be paid once the conference is over. The total support by AMPERE and EUROMAR is 5000 and 10 000 €, respectively (total 30 stipends). You can apply for the stipend in the abstract submission form. Deadline March 15.
EUROMAR sustainable travel stipend
Students, PhD candidates, and postdoctoral researchers may apply for a sustainable travel stipend. The 20 applicants achieving the greatest CO₂e reductions—calculated based on documented savings from travel tickets presented at the conference—will be reimbursed up to €500, not exceeding the actual ticket cost. Reimbursement will be processed after the conference. You can apply for the stipend in the abstract submission form. Deadline March 15.