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.
Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award 2022

Fabio Carrara is the Winner of the 2022 ERCIM Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award
The ERCIM Evaluation Committee for the Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award unanimously selected Fabio Carrara from ISTI-CNR as the winner for 2022. An honorary mention was given to Cédric Colas from Inria.
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2023 Call for Nominations
The Call is currently closed; the Deadline is to be announced.
Eligibility
The following are the rules for the 2022 award. These rules may change for the 2023 competition.
- Nominees must have carried out their work in one of the 'ERCIM countries': Austria, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and The Netherlands. Nominees must have been awarded their PhD (or equivalent) after 30 April 2019.
- A person can only be nominated once for the Cor Baayen 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 for at least one year in an institution located in one of the countries mentioned above.
Submitting a nomination
- Nominations have to be made by a staff member of an ERCIM member institute. Self-nominations are not accepted. Each institute can forward two nominations to the final evaluation. If there are more than two nominations coming from an ERCIM member institute, it is the responsibility of this institute to select the maximum two nominees.
- Nominations must be submitted through the Cor Baayen Award Nomination Form (available when the 2023 Call is open) and provide a URL to the candidate's full-text PhD thesis as well as the candidate's full-text best papers or other main scientific achievements (max. 5).
- Deadline for submitting a nomination: 5 June 2022
We specifically encourage nominations of candidates from underrepresented minorities, including but not limited to race, gender, and different abilities.
Selection
- The selection of the Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award winner is the responsibility of the ERCIM Human Capital Task Group, which might consult expert opinion in reaching their decision.
Further Information
Can be obtained from your ERCIM representative or from the Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award coordinator Monica Divitini (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 during the ERCIM fall meetings (date and place to be announced).
About Cor Baayen
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 the 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 the 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.
The Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award Winners
Fabio Carrara (ISTI-CNR), nominated by Giuseppe Amato (CNR)
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Tomasz Kociumaka (IEOR Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA), nominated by Łukasz Kowalik (University of Warsaw)
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2019 Award exceptionally shared by two winners: Ninon Burgos (left) nominated by Inria and Gilyén András (right) nominated by CWI
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Martina Lindorfer, nominated by SBA
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Michał Pilipczuk nominated by University of Warsaw
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Juan Reutter nominated by University of Warsaw
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2011 Award exceptionally shared by two winners: Stratos Idreos (right) nominated by CWI and Luca Mottola (left) nominated by SICS
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Oliver Heckmann nominated by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
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Christof Teuscher nominated by SARIT
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Philippe Baptiste nominated by INRIA
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Matthias Grossglauser nominated by INRIA
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Christer Samuelsson nominated by SICS
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