SPPS prizes have been established to recognise the work and achievements done in advancement of plant physiology and plant science in general.
Winners are chosen by the SPPS Council based on nominations from SPPS members
Any SPPS member can nominate
Only SPPS members can be nominated, except for the Physiologia Plantarum Prize
The council can decide to leave a particular prize vacant if no candidate of sufficient quality is nominated.
The winners are presented with a monetary award in addition to a certificate.
All awards are officially handed out at the SPPS Congress. The winners will be invited to give an oral presentation during the congress and to publish in Physiologia Plantarum
The SPPS Award recognizes the outstanding contribution of a scientist based in a Nordic country to plant biology. Focus is on recent research contribution.
The SPPS Popularisation Prize aims to encourage plant biologists to bring research results to the public. The prize is given to an individual or a group of individuals who have clearly popularised plant biology in newspapers, journal articles, books, television, radio, or other public forums in the Nordic countries.
The SPPS Early Career Prize is awarded to a young, highly talented scientist based in a Nordic country, who has made significant, independent contributions to plant biology. Nominees should have received their doctoral degree less than 10 years before the SPPS Congress.
The Physiologia Plantarum Prize recognizes a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to plant science in the areas that are covered by Physiologia Plantarum. This could be either lifetime- or recent breakthrough-type of contributions. The Physiologia Plantarum Prize is open to researchers all over the world and also non SPPS-members can be nominated.
The SPPS Plant Innovation prize is awarded to a scientist based in a Nordic country who has demonstrated how academic plant science could benefit society, through translation into innovations, to new procedures or new policies.
The SPPS PhD thesis prize is awarded to a scientist that has defended the PhD thesis in a Nordic country in the two years prior to the year in which an SPPS Congress is celebrated. The next round for nominations will include students that defend between January 1st, 2024 and December 31st, 2025. The conditions for PhD studies differ between the Nordic countries and the Council will take this into consideration when evaluating the nominations.
A call for nominations is initiated by the Council in the autumn prior to the SPPS Congress. Next deadline for nominations will be December 31st, 2025, and a call is expected by October 2025.
Fill a Google form (link below), including a clear motivation for the nomination
With the form you will need to upload:
An updated CV and publication list for the nominnee
For the SPPS PhD Thesis Prize, a letter from a supervisor (or another senior scientist with deep insights into the nominee's work) with details about the contribution of the student to the work presented in the thesis
Any other files that might support the nomination
Nominate someone for a prize without Google Account