The Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award is awarded each year to a promising young researcher in computer science or applied mathematics. The award carries a prize of € 5000.
The 2019 competition for the ERCIM Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award was highly competitive with 16 final nominees. A selection committee composed of members from ERCIM and Informatics Europe eventually awarded two outstanding young researchers in recognition of the outstanding scientific quality of their research and the impact on science and society they have already achieved in their short career: Ninon Burgos (CNRS) and András Gilyén (Caltech) with an honorary mention to Paris Carbone (RISE). The award will be presented at the European Computer Science Summit (ECSS) in Rome on Tuesday, 29 October 2019. Read more ..
The Call for the 2020 Award will be published in Spring 2020. Below the rules for the 2019 Award.
The Cor Baayen award is a young researcher prize: The selection panel will therefore consider the quality of the PhD thesis and all the achievements done up to the nomination date.
The nominees must have performed their research during at least one year in an institution located in one of the countries mentioned above.
Can be obtained from your ERCIM representative or from the Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award coordinator Claude Kirchner, Inria (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
The Cor Baayen award winner will be invited to present her or his contribution highlights at a joint award ceremony between ERCIM and Informatics Europe during ECSS 2019, 28-30 October 2019 in Rome.
The Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award is named after the first president of ERCIM and the ERCIM 'president d'honneur'. Cor Baayen played an important role in its foundation. Cor Baayen was scientific director of the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands, from 1980 to 1994.
Baayen joined the institute in 1959 as a researcher of the department of pure mathematics, where he became group leader in 1965. As scientific director, Cor Baayen convinced the government to include CWI in a program that stimulated Dutch computer science research. He initiated or stimulated several new research areas including cryptography, computer algebra and performance analysis.