URA Honorary Tollestrup Award for Postdoctoral Research
Nominations for URA Honorary Tollestrup Award for Postdoctoral Research are Open
Awardee to be Announced at Annual Fermilab Users and Affiliates Meeting June 2025Overview
The URA Honorary Tollestrup Award for Postdoctoral Research, named after celebrated Fermilab scientist Alvin Tollestrup, is one of the honorary awards conferred annually by the Universities Research Association (URA) for outstanding work conducted by young scientists during their postdoctoral years at Fermilab or in collaboration with Fermilab scientists.
The URA Honorary Tollestrup Award for Postdoctoral Research will be presented at the Annual Fermilab Users and Affiliates Meeting in June 2025. The awardee receives $10,000 from URA and presents their work at the Meeting.
Eligibility
All Ph.D. researchers who are within six years of the receipt of their Ph.D., as of the nomination deadline, in non-tenure track positions (or non-tenure track equivalent positions at Fermilab). The work for which the award is made must be performed in conjunction with a Fermilab experiment or accelerator project, or under the auspices of the Fermilab Theory or Astrophysics Groups.
Nomination
- Self-nominations are welcome
- Candidate’s CV, including the list of publications and invited talks
- Research Statement, written by the nominee, describing the postdoctoral research work
- Two letters of support from scientists (other than the nominee) familiar with the work, which focus on the nominee’s contributions and how those demonstrate scientific insight and creativity. One of the letters should be from the nominator unless it is a self-nomination.
Nominations must be submitted to the chair of the Award Committee, Michael Mulhearn (ura-tollestrup@fnal.gov) by Friday, April 4, 2025. All nomination material should be sent in electronic form, .pdf preferably.
Call for Nominations
The Award Committee Chair, FNAL CRO, and URA will issue the call for nominations on February 3, 2025.
Notification of Award
By May 9, 2025 the committee chair will inform URA and the CRO of the selected awardee and will subsequently contact the award recipient, through an official letter of award notification. Such a letter includes a citation that speaks for the spirit of the award, including the rationale behind the awardee selection and work performed, the awardee’s full name, institution, email address, and phone number.
Award for Postdoctoral Research Committee
The URA Honorary Tollestrup Award for Postdoctoral Research Award Committee members reflects a sufficiently diverse representation of disciplines and expertise to ensure eligible nominees’ appropriate and fair consideration. The members and chair of the award committee are appointed by the Fermilab Director/CRO.
Tollestrup Award Committee
Name | Role | Organization |
Michael Mulhearn | Chair | UC Davis |
Jahred Adelman | Member | Northern Illinois University |
Julie Whitmore | Member | Fermilab |
Andreas Kronfeld | Member | Fermilab |
Matthew Toups | Member | Fermilab |