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TWAS-CAS Young Scientists Award for Frontier Science
Former CAS and TWAS President Bai Chunli played a central role in creating the award.
The recipients receive USD10,000.
The subject rotates among various fields of science. The 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 awards recognized achievements respectively in the physical sciences; astronomy and cosmology; earth sciences; mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Life Sciences.
NOMINATIONS:
Ernesto Illy Colloquia: Addressing Key Challenges in Coffee Research
AAAS-TWAS Train the Trainers Course on Science Diplomacy
TWAS-IsDB Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme
Call for applications: ASSAf-TWAS-AAAS Regional Workshop on Science Diplomacy
TWAS Siwei Cheng Award in Economic Sciences
Introduction
The award reflects the Chinese Academy of Sciences' strong support to TWAS and, more generally, seeks to build scientific capacity in the developing world. Bai Chunli, president of both the Chinese Academy and TWAS, played a central role in the creation of the TWAS-Siwei Cheng Award.
AAAS-TWAS Course on Science Diplomacy
TWAS-Abdus Salam Medal
Personalities awarded with the TWAS-Abdus Salam Medal:
- Federico Mayor, Spain (1995)
- M.G.K. Menon, India (1996)
- Thomas R. Odhiambo, Kenya (1998)
- José I. Vargas, Brazil (2000)
- Paolo Budinich, Italy (2002)
- Lu Yongxiang, China (2005)
- C.N.R. Rao, India (2008)
- Mohamed H.A. Hassan, Sudan (2012)
- Jacob Palis, Brazil (2015)
- Fernando Quevedo, Guatemala (2018)
- Chunli Bai, China (2022)