The Malcolm Haines Prize for an early career physicist
This prize is awarded once every two years to an early career physicist. The award recognises early researchers for one or more of the following:
- outstanding research
- innovation
- leadership
Nominations for the Haines Prize 2023 are now open. The deadline for submissions is 31 October 2023.
Nominees must be:
- based in the UK or Ireland
- working in experimental or theoretical plasma physics
- researchers with less than six years of work experience after having completed a PhD or less than 10 years without a PhD, excluding career breaks
Plasma physics is defined for this prize to include:
- laser plasmas
- warm dense matter
- low-temperature plasmas
- technological plasmas
- space/astrophysical plasmas
- magnetically confined and inertially confined fusion plasmas
The prize is in honour of the late Malcolm Haines, an outstanding plasma physicist at Imperial College London. It is sponsored by his widow, Polly Haines.
The prize is open to all members of the plasma physics community.
Nominations for the Haines Prize 2023 are now open. The deadline for submissions is 31 October 2023.
Self-nominations will be accepted, but in such cases a second nomination is required from a person who is a member (in any category) of the Institute of Physics and is based at an institution other than that of the nominee.
The nomination should comprise a nomination letter and if appropriate links to any evidence supporting the nomination (for example a paper, article, patent, or other evidence).
Nominations should be sent by email to Plasma Physics Group secretary Professor Stuart Mangles: [email protected].
Winners
2021
Dr Rob Shalloo
Imperial College London. For his paper, Automation and control of laser-wakefield accelerators using Bayesian optimization.
2019
Dr Nick Walkden
Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. For his paper, 3D simulations of turbulent mixing in a simplified slab-divertor geometry.