ICFA is pleased to announce the call for the 2024 ICFA Instrumentation Awards. These Awards are bestowed annually to recognise exceptional contributions to instrumentation that has advanced the field of particle physics.

The ICFA Instrumentation Early Career Award recognizes achievements in instrumentation made at  an early career stage by an individual, or group of up to three individuals,  that has the promise to, or has already made, an advance in the field of particle physics.  The early career stage is taken to be 15 years from the award of the  Ph.D. or other terminal degree, properly accounting for career interruptions. 

The PhD date is the date that the PhD was awarded, not the date that the thesis was defended. The time that has elapsed since the PhD was awarded is calculated from the year that the nomination call is made, not the year in which the deadline for nominations falls. Accordingly, as the call for nominations for the ICFA Early Career Award is made in 2023, nominees are eligible if the PhD was awarded in 2008 or later.  

The ICFA Instrumentation Award recognizes achievements in instrumentation by an individual, or a group of up to three individuals, that has made an advance in the field of particle physics. This award recognizes either a technology development (for example the 2022 award recognized the development of Micro Pattern Gas Detectors, and the 2021 award recognized development of advanced low-noise electronics instrumentation in in particular for liquid argon technology) or a multi-faceted contribution including a technology development and also one or more of the following: community organization, training, outreach or technology transfer.  While past achievements form the main basis for the award,  the potential for future instrumentation developments may also be considered.
The particle physics community is diverse and global, so the nominees should reflect this.  The nomination of women and other underrepresented groups in the particle physics community is therefore strongly encouraged. 

Award ceremony The 2024 Award recipients will be invited to give a lecture at the 16th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors 26 May -1 June, 2024  in Isola d’Elba, Italy. For the following two editions of the awards, the lectures will be held at:

• Vienna Instrumentation Conference, 2025.
• Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics (TIPP), 2026.

Review and selection process The review committee for the 2024  awards are the members of the ICFA Instrumentation Innovation and Development Panel.   

Nominations will remain active for three years. A nominator may view their nomination made in a previous year at the sidebar option "Edition 2022 and Edition 2023”. If  a nominator wishes to update a previous nomination this requires the entire nomination be submitted to the 2024 cycle.

For questions about the awards please contact ian.shipsey@cern.ch (Chair of the ICFA IID Panel).