Awards

The International Society for Extremophiles honors outstanding contributions to the field of research on extremophiles. Awards will be given to talented scientists who open up new frontiers in terms of basic and applied research.
Eligible persons can be nominated by all ordinary members of the society and will be selected by a jury chaired by the ISE president.
The award ceremony takes place during the biennial Extremophiles conferences.

Past ISE Award Winners

2006
Kirsten Beck, Department of Biochemistry II, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Takashi Endoh, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan
Marc T. Facciotti, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Wa, USA

2004
Bonnie Chaban, Queens University, Kingston, Canada
Tonny Collins, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Luis Gonçalves, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
Matthew Johnson, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Thomas Niederberger, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Biagio Pucci, Institute of Protein Biochemistry, Naples, Italy

2002
Sonja Albers, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Patrizia Contursi, Universita Federico II di Napoli, Naples, Italy
Tiago Faria, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
Masahiro Ito, Toyo University, Itakura-machi, Japan
Astrid Lingl, University of Munich, Munich, Germany