The Association of Hungarian American Academicians (AHAA) – Amerikai Magyar Akadémikusok Társasága (AMAT), a non-profit charitable organization, is accepting applications for the AMAT Young Investigator Award. The award supports attendance at a scientific conference in the United States by Hungarian scientists living in Hungary or in the Carpathian Basin.
Eligibility: The application is open for graduate students working for their PhD degree or scientists with a PhD under the age of 35, in the fields of mathematics, natural (physical) and life sciences.
Award: There will be at least one award made for a PhD student and one for a young investigator. The awardees are required to acknowledge support by AMAT in their presentation or on a poster, and submit a final report within a year detailing how the award was spent.
PhD students should submit the following:
Young investigators should submit the following:
The cover letter (pdf) should include an estimated cost of participating in the conference
and possible supplementary sources of funding.
The documents should be sent to Prof. Eva Nagy, ( enagy@ovc.uoguelph.ca ) before March 15, 2025.
All application materials should be in English. The address line should read FELLOWSHIP2025_LASTNAME.
The winner will be announced in May, 2025 during the Annual General Assembly of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The announcement will be posted on the AMAT website and the winner will be notified via email.
Please email enagy@ovc.uoguelph.ca or maliga@waksman.rutgers.edu with any questions concerning the award.