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Nominations for Awards
Call for Nominations for EASD Research Prize and Special Awards.
EASD Awards
The European Association for Structural Dynamics (EASD) announces six research prizes and special awards:
The EASD Research Prizes are given in recognition of outstanding and sustained contributions to the following areas:
- Methodologies for Structural Dynamics
- Computational Structural Dynamics
- Applications of Structural Dynamics
In each of those three areas Senior and Junior Prizes, respectively, will be awarded. Eligibility for Junior Prizes requires that the nominee is forty years old or younger and should not turn 41 in the year the award is presented.
Special Awards
Special Awards will be given for outstanding contributions to other important areas not encompassed above, such as:
- Structural Dynamics Education
- Transfer of Structural Dynamics Methods to Engineering Practice
- Other significant related areas
Special Awards are also given to honour individuals who have made outstanding and sustained contributions in the field of Structural Dynamics and related fields over substantial periods of their professional careers.
General Guidelines
Eligibility:
All recipients must have contributed to past EASDs (European Conferences of Structural Dynamics).
Award Ceremony:
The research prizes and special awards will be presented in Hannover,
27th September – 1st October 2026,
at the 13th International Conference on Structural Dynamics – EURODYN 2026
https://eurodyn2026.org/
Nominations:
The EURODYN Awards Committee, appointed by the Executive Board of EASD, solicits nominations.
- Nominators may nominate no more than one individual for each prize or award.
- Self-nominations are not accepted.
- A maximum one-page combined nominating statement/vita must be submitted in support of the nominee.
- The Awards Committee will select the prize winners and awardees.
Awards Committee:
The Committee, chaired by an appointed chairman, consists of experts in the respective areas listed above.
It is responsible for all preparations regarding the selection and presentation of the research prizes and awards at EURODYN.
If a member of the Awards Committee is nominated for a prize or award:
- They are ineligible to vote for that award.
- They are completely excluded from the selection process for that specific award.
Submission of Nominations
Nominators are invited to submit nominations to:
Prof. Guido De Roeck
Emeritus Professor of KULeuven
Structural Mechanics Section
Kasteelpark Arenberg 40 – box 2448
3001 Leuven
Belgium
Email: guido.deroeck@kuleuven.be
Deadline
April 15, 2026