The European Academy of Optometry and Optics

5 December 2011

The AVA awards, launched in 2008, recognise the achievements of an outstanding vision scientist in the early part of his or her research career. The award is named in memory  of David Marr, one of Britain's most distinguished vision researchers. 

Nominations are being sought for the 2012 award.

Nomination
Nominees will normally be scientists who are conducting vision research in an EU country, and who are within 10 years of their PhD.

Nominations (but not self-nominations) are invited from AVA members, and should include a letter of recommendation, the nominee's CV (with list of publications), and two example publications (PDF files).  Any eligible vision scientist may be nominated, whether nominated previously or not.

The Award
The winner of the 2012 award will be announced around the end of January 2012. The winner will be invited to receive their award, and give an invited talk, at the AVA Spring or Christmas meeting in 2012.

Previous awards
Information about previous Marr medal winners can be found here - The AVA Awards.

Deadline
Nominations (in electronic form) should be emailed to the AVA secretariat at L.Sackett@bristol.ac.uk by Friday 13 January 2012.