DGUV/IPA Award for Young Exposure Scientists: Criteria and Procedures

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Purpose of Award:

To foster research in exposure areas with linkages to biomonitoring for superior doctoral students working on their dissertation orin the first year postdoctoral experience and whose doctoral field is exposure sciences, occupational/environmental health sciences, toxicology, biochemistry, biology or a related field.

Eligibility:

Any person, ISES member or not, who is a doctoral student working on their dissertation or in the first year postdoctoral experience and whose doctoral field is exposure sciences, occupational/environmental health sciences, toxicology, biochemistry, biology, or a related field in the year in which the award is to be given, and who is not a member of the ISES Awards Committee, is eligible for this award.

Announcement Procedure:

The Chair of the ISES Awards Committee shall issue a call for nominations by means of announcements by e-mail and/or an appropriate issue of the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. The deadline for submission of the nominations will be May 1 of the year in which the award is given.

Nominating Procedure:

A nomination shall consist of a nominating letter from a current ISES member describing the contributions of the nominee to the science of human exposure assessment, his/her potential for making future contributions to the field, and a curriculum vitae or biographical sketch of the nominee in sufficient depth for evaluation by the ISES Awards Committee. The person submitting the nomination is required to obtain a seconding letter and is encouraged to solicit supporting letters from others familiar with the contributions of the nominee.

Selection Procedure:

Upon close of the nominations, the Awards Committee Chair shall mail copies of all materials he/she has received to each Awards Committee member for review. The Awards Committee Chair, with the approval of the President, may appoint an ad hoc committee member (possibly European) with expertise in biomonitoring to assist in its determination of a winner. Each committee member shall evaluate the candidates, based on the materials supplied and on published papers.Criteria for evaluation should inciude (1) scientific quality of publications; (2) significance of the nominee's research to the field of exposure analysis; and (3) the nominee's potential for making future contributions to the science of exposure analysis.

IIf there are several qualified candidates, the forced ranking polling procedure will be used to select the winner [1]. That is, the list of the candidates considered qualified by the Awards Committee will be placed on a ballot and each member of the Awards Committee will rank the qualified candidates (e.g., 1 through n, with 1 the highest rank) and send his/her ballot to the Chair, by U.S. mail or e-mail, for tally. The Chair will then sum the score for each candidate and the winner will be the candidate with the lowest score (highest rank). In the event of a tie, this procedure will be repeated for the tied candidates. In the event that there are no nominees, or that no candidate is considered outstanding, no award shall be given.

Notification Procedure:

The successful candidate shall be notified by an e-mail or letter mailed no later than three months before the annual ISES meeting. Copies of the e-mail or letter shall be sent to the ISES Secretary, Treasurer, and President, and to the primary nominator of the candidate. The recipient will also be contacted by telephone once the Committee has arrived at its decision.

Announcement of the Award:

Once the award recipient has been notified, a short announcement should be prepared for the web site.

Presentation of the Award:

The ISES President will present the DGUV/IPA Award for Young Exposure Scientists at the annual ISES meeting.

Nature of the Award:

The award shall consist of a plaque and 1500 Euros. The awardee may be invited to give a talk in Europe on his/her research as well.

[1] The Awards Committee shall be composed of an odd number of members.