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Longuet-Higgins Early Career Researcher Prize

Molecular Physics

About the prize

Every year the Editors of Molecular Physics award the Longuet-Higgins Early Career Researcher Prize of $1,000 to a talented, early career writer who has written for the journal in the preceding year and whose article was published within 5 years of being awarded their PhD. Submissions from authors who have not yet completed their PhD are also welcome. The winner is an author who is judged to have made a significant contribution to a top quality paper which has been published in the journal the previous year.

The Editors may also award a number of additional 'Molecular Physics Early Career Researcher Prizes' at their discretion to nominated early career authors who deserve special mention.

We hope that these prizes will highlight and inspire high quality work from the next generation of researchers.

Submissions information

Who is eligible for the prize?

  • Authors studying for a PhD
  • Authors who published their article withing 5 years of being awarded their PhD
  • Authors whose paper is/will be published in Molecular Physics
  • Authors publishing in any subject covered by the journal, theoretical or experimental

Nominations for the 2020 prize are open until 28th February 2022. The nomination form can be found here.

Winner Article Volume Issue
2019 - Longuet-Higgins Prize F.M. Faulstich The coupled-cluster formalism – a mathematical perspective 117 17
2019 - Early Career Researcher Prize J.E. Palmer Matter-wave interferometry with atoms in high Rydberg state 117 21
2019 - Early Career Researcher Prize Jan-Christoph Eichler Emergent biaxiality in nematic microflows illuminated by a laser beam 117 23-24
2018 - Longuet-Higgins Prize Thinh Bui et al. Spectral analyses of trans- and cis-DOCO transients via comb spectroscopy 116 23-24
2018 - Early Career Researcher Prize Luuk Metselaar, Amin Doostmohammadi and Julia M. Yeomans Two-dimensional, blue phase tactoids 116 21-22
2018 - Early Career Researcher Prize Bo Peng and Karol Kowalski Properties of advanced coupled-cluster Green's function 116 5-6
2017 - Longuet-Higgins Prize Bruno Senjean, Masahisa Tsuchiizu, Vincent Robert & Emmanuel Fromager Local density approximation in site-occupation embedding theory 115 1-2
2017 - Early Career Researcher Prize R. Puthumpally-Joseph et al. Laser-induced electron diffraction: inversion of photo-electron spectra for molecular orbital imaging 115 15-16
2017 - Early Career Researcher Prize Takeshi Yanai, et al Influence of the choice of projection manifolds in the CASPT2 implementation 115 17-18
2017 - Early Career Researcher Prize Kevin S. Silmore, Michael P. Howard & Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos Vapour–liquid phase equilibrium and surface tension of fully flexible Lennard–Jones chains 115 3
2016 - Longuet-Higgins Prize Timothy J. H. Hele On the relation between thermostatted ring-polymer molecular dynamics and exact quantum dynamics 114 9
2016 - Early Career Researcher Prize Alejandro J. Garza et al. Combinations of coupled cluster, density functionals, and the random phase approximation for describing static and dynamic correlation, and van der Waals interactions 114 7-8
2016 - Early Career Researcher Prize M. L. Niu et al. Spectroscopy and perturbation analysis of the CO A1Π −X1Σ+ (2,0), (3,0) and (4,0) bands 114 5
2016 - Early Career Researcher Prize M. L. Niu et al. Spectroscopy and perturbation analysis of the A1π (v=0) state of 13 C16 O 114 19
2015 - Longuet-Higgins Prize H. van Aggelen & G.K.-L. Chan Single-particle energies and density of states in density functional theory 113 13-14
2015 - Early Career Researcher Prize N.S. Ramrattan, C. Avendaño, E.A. Müller & A. Galindo A corresponding-states framework for the description of the Mie family of intermolecular potentialss 113 9-10
2015 - Early Career Researcher Prize Eduardo Carrascosa, Martin Stei, Martin A. Kainz & Roland Wester Isomer-specific product formation in the proton transfer reaction of HOCO+ with CO 113 24
2014 - Longuet-Higgins Prize George H. Booth, Simon D. Smart & Ali Alavi Linear-scaling and parallelisable algorithms for stochastic quantum chemistry 112 14
2014 - Early Career Researcher Prize Jiangchao Chen, Qingguo Meng, P. Stanley May, Mary T. Berry & Dmitri S. Kilin Time-dependent excited-state molecular dynamics of photodissociation of lanthanide complexes for laser-assisted metal-organic chemical vapour deposition 112 3-4
2014 - Early Career Researcher Prize Stephan Werth, Gabor Rutkai, Jadran Vrabec, Martin Horsch & Hans Hasse Long-range correction for multi-site Lennard-Jones models and planar interfaces 112 17
2013 - Longuet-Higgins Prize Łukasz Walewski , Harald Forbert & Dominik Marx Interaction-induced localisation of protons in hydrogen bonds at superfluid helium temperatures 111 16-17
2013 - Early Career Researcher Prize Felix H.J. Hall , Mireille Aymar , Maurice Raoult , Olivier Dulieu & Stefan Willitsch Light-assisted cold chemical reactions of barium ions with rubidium atoms 111 12-13
2013 - Early Career Researcher Prize A.P. Jones, et al Electronically coarse-grained molecular dynamics using quantum Drude oscillators 111 22-23
2012 - Longuet-Higgins Prize A.W. Wiederkehr , H. Schmutz , M. Motsch & F. Merkt Velocity-tunable slow beams of cold O2 in a single spin-rovibronic state with full angular-momentum orientation by multistage Zeeman deceleration 110 15-6
2012 - Early Career Researcher Prize Sondre K. Schnell , Thijs J.H. Vlugt , Jean-Marc Simon , Dick Bedeaux & Signe Kjelstrup Thermodynamics of small systems embedded in a reservoir: a detailed analysis of finite size effects 110 11-12
2012 - Early Career Researcher Prize Miroslav Šulc & Jiří Vaníček Accelerating the calculation of time-resolved electronic spectra with the cellular dephasing representation 110 9-10
2011 - Longuet-Higgins Prize Niels Boon & René van Roij ‘Blue energy’ from ion adsorption and electrode charging in sea and river water 109 7-10
2011 - Early Career Researcher Prize G.D. Dickenson et al. VUV Spectroscopic Study of the D 1Π u State of Molecular Deuterium 109 22
2011 - Early Career Researcher Prize Matthias Tröndle et al. Trapping colloids near chemical stripes via critical Casimir forces 109 7-10
2011 - Early Career Researcher Prize James D. Whitfield , Jacob Biamonte & Alán Aspuru-Guzik Simulation of electronic structure Hamiltonians using quantum computers 109 5
2010 - Longuet-Higgins Prize David Case & Frederick R. Manby The Ornstein–Zernike equation in molecular electronic structure theory 108 3-4
2010 - Early Career Researcher Prize Zhifeng Xue & Martin A. Suhm Adding more weight to a molecular recognition unit: the low-frequency modes of carboxylic acid dimers 108 17
2010 - Early Career Researcher Prize Markus Koch , Carlo Callegari & Wolfgang E. Ernst Alkali-metal electron spin density shift induced by a helium nanodroplet 108 7-9
2009 - Longuet-Higgins Prize B.L. Bhargava & Michael L. Klein Formation of micelles in aqueous solutions of a room temperature ionic liquid: a study using coarse grained molecular dynamics 107 4-6
2009 - Early Career Researcher Prize Jing Zhu , Zhen Huang & Sabre Kais Simulated quantum computation of global minima 107 19
2009 - Early Career Researcher Prize Thomas A. Baker , Jessica L. Rouge & David J. Nesbitt Single molecule studies of quantum dot fluorescence intermittency: evidence for both dark and light-assisted blinking dynamics 107 18

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