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.ISE Award Winners
Lifetime Achievement
| 2018 | Robert Kelly, North Carolina State University, USA |
| 2016 | Helena Santos, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
| 2014 | Mike Adams, University of Georgia, USA |
| 2012 | Garabed Antranikian, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany |
| 2010 | Koki Horikoshi, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan Mose Rossi, Istituto di Biochimica delle Proteine, Naples, Italy  |
Poster Awards
| 2018 | Annett Bellack, University of Regensburg, Germany Larissa Schocke, University of Duiburg-Essen, Germany Hyeon-Su Jin, Yonsei University, South Korea Eduarda Almeida, University of Porto, Portugal Alta Howells, Arizona State University-Tempe, USA Risat ul Haque, University of Nottingham, UK Anne-Catherine Ahn, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ram Karan, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
| 2016 | Laura Lee, North Carolina State University，USA Sotaro Fujii, Hiroshima University, Japan Mariko Nagata, Kyushu University, Japan Weishu Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Kensuke Igarashi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Sukhvinder Gill, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, France Miyako Shiraishi, Kyushu University, Japan |
| 2014 | Evgeny Frolov, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Yuka Takahashi, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Toyo University, Izumino, Itakura-machi, Oura-gun, Gunma, Japan Maria Jose Leon, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sevilla, Spain Gideon de Jager, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa Sigmar Stefansson, Matis ltd., Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 2012 | Irene Sanchez Andrea, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Ralf Salzer, Winogradsky Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Jun Kawamoto, Kyoto University, Japan Ingrid Waege, University of Regensburg, Germany Felipe Sarmiento, The University of Georgia, USA |
| 2010 | Maggie C.Y. Lau, The University of Hong Kong, PR China Anna Perevalova, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Ileana Perez-Rodriguez, Rutgers University, USA Leanne Timpson, University College Dublin, Ireland Nadine Winkelmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany |
ISE Grants
| 2012 | Diya Alsafadi, University College Dublin, Ireland Maria Carmina Ferrara, Institute of Protein Biochemistry, Naples, Italy Roberto Gonzalez, University of Vigo, Spain Leonardo H. Pinto, Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil Felipe Sarmiento, University of Georgia Athens, USA |
| 2010 | Yuki Chan, Extremophiles Research Group, The University of Hong Kong, PR China Kelly Kwan, California State University East Bay, USA Lau Chui Maggie, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, PR China Leanne Timpson, Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, University College Dublin, Ireland Andrey Mardanov, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia |
| 2006 | Kirsten Beck, Department of Biochemistry II, University of Bayreuth, Germany Takashi Endoh, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Japan Marc T. Facciotti, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Wa, USA |
| 2004 | Bonnie Chaban, Queens University, Kingston, Canada Tony Collins, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium Luis Goncalves, 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 |