Are you a young and ambitious researcher? Trying to solve challenging research questions in your domain? And do you have an innovative approach to use data-driven or compute-intensive methods in your research? Then you may win the Young eScientist Award 2016. Win EUR 50,000 worth of eScience expertise for your novel research idea!
The winner of this award will work together with the eScience Center’s experts to formulate the idea into a full project proposal. Submit your idea before 1 September 2016! The prize will be awarded at the 4th National eScience Symposium in the Amsterdam ArenA on 13 October 2016.
The grand societal challenges of the coming years, such as climate change, increased population size, resource scarcity and urbanisation will require innovative scientific and technological interventions. Researchers are more and more required to rapidly develop ICT skills to answer their ambitious research questions. DTL partner the Netherlands eScience Center works together with discipline focused scientists to ensure that state-of-the-art computing and data-science is developed and applied in fields such as the Humanities & Social Sciences, Environment & Sustainability, Life Sciences & eHealth, and Physics & Beyond.
Please find more information on the website of the Netherlands eScience Center.