The European Society for Applied Superconductivity awards three prizes biannually to researchers under the age of 30 for outstanding work presented in person by poster or oral during the EUCAS conference. One prize is awarded in each of the areas of the EUCAS main technical symposia (electronics, large-scale applications and materials). The main criteria for the award of these prizes are the originality of the work and the general quality of the poster or oral presentation. Each prize-winner receives a printed certificate and a monetary award.

ESAS 2015 Young Researcher Award Recipients

• Materials

  Mayraluna Lao
  Vienna University of Technology
  Critical currents in PLD-YBCO coated conductors investigated by high resolution Hall scan measurements
  

• Electronics

  Sergey Viktorovich Bakurskiy
  Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
  Nucleation of superconducting domains in thin s-layers of S-F/N-sIS Josephson devices
  

• Large Scale Applications

  Anup Patel
  University of Cambridge
  Magnetic levitation between HTS tape stacks and permanent magnets for rotary bearing applications
  

ESAS 2013 Award Recipients

• Materials

  Jan Engelmann
  IFW Dresden
  Strain induced superconductivity in non-doped Ba-122 films
  

• Electronics, in memory of Prof. Antonio Barone

  Riccardo Arpaia
  Chalmers University and CNR-SPIN
  Photoresponse experiments on parallel superconducting YBaCuO nanowires
  

• Large Scale Applications

  Emmanuele Ravaioli
  University of Twente
  A New Hybrid Protection System for High Field Superconducting Magnets
  

• Wires & Tapes

  Valeria Cubeda
  Columbus Superconductors
  Development of ex-situ MgB₂ round wires for the LHC superconducting link project
  

ESAS 2011 Award Recipients

• Electronics

  Pieter J. DE VISSER
  SRON National Institute for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan Utrecht
  Quasiparticle number fluctuations in superconducting microwave resonators
  
  Akira ENDO
  Kavli Institute of NanoScience, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft
  Design of an On-Chip Filterbank Spectrometer Based on Superconducting Microresonators for Submillimeter Wave Astronomy
  

• Materials

  Matthias G. T. MENTINK
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
  University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
  The effect of Cu, Ta, and Ti additions on the strain sensitivity of bulk Niobium-Tin
  
  Marta VILARDELL
  Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
  Novel inkjet printing methodologies for YBa2Cu3O7-x film growth and patterning

• Large Scale Applications

  Mark AINSLIE
  University of Cambridge
  Improved modelling and measurement of transport AC loss in superconducting coils
  
  Antti STENVALL
  Tampere University of Technology
  The effect of twisting on superconductor self-field critical current