National Scholar Award

Recognition for promising junior level researchers

With this award we identify and nurture promising investigators at a junior level. Among all abstracts accepted for presentation at UEG Week, the highest scoring abstracts per country are chosen.

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Target group

This opportunity is only available for UEG Young Associates.
Among all abstracts accepted for presentation at UEG Week, the highest scoring abstracts per country are chosen.
The award can only be awarded once.

Benefits

National Scholar awardees will receive a guaranteed Travel Grant to UEG Week 2026.
National Scholar awardees are highlighted in the online programme of UEG Week 2026.

How it works

While submitting an abstract, you can tick the Travel Grant application box. By doing so, you are indicating your interest in becoming a National Scholar awardee.

Among all abstracts accepted for presentation at UEG Week who have ticked this box, the highest scoring abstracts per country are chosen. The presenting author has to also prove that they are a UEG Young Associate via a confirmation system.

Notifications will be sent out in the final week of July 2026.

Awardees 2025

Anna Aarni, Finland
Magdalena Achtenberg, Poland
Kwadwo Nyantakyi Adu-Darko, Ghana
Dhruv Ahuja, United States of America
Hsuen Cheng, Taiwan
Michael Chieng, New Zealand
Irfan Corovic, Serbia
Luan Minh Dang, Vietnam
Nik Dekkers, Netherlands
Emanuele Dilaghi, Italy
Delphine Dubois, Canada
Dana Dudová, Slovakia
Mohamed Hamouda Elkasaby, Egypt
Patricia Figueroa Rodríguez, Puerto Rico
Juan Frias-Ordoñez, Colombia
Amal Ghamougui, Tunisia
Marta Gravito-Soares, Portugal
Alisa Greenberg, Israel
Burcu Gurbuz, Türkiye
Oriol Juanola, Switzerland
Antony Kahwagi, Lebanon
Taimoor Khan, Pakistan
Hamza Khelifa, Algeria
Aletta Kata Kiss, Hungary
Georgios Kokkotis, Greece
Rachaporn Kongbumrung, Thailand
Sabrina Kousgaard, Denmark
Khrystyna Kvit, Ukraine

José Luis López Chacón, Guatemala
Jelena Lujić, Croatia
Jesuthasan Mithushan, Sri Lanka
Frederick Moryoussef, France
Oussama Nacir, Morocco
Steffanie Nario, Australia
Olaolu Olabintan, United Kingdom
Christian Pacher-Deutsch, Austria
Partha Pal, India
Yasi Pan, Hong Kong
Jae Yong Park, South Korea
Federico Peralta, Philippines
Aline Pesi, Germany
Yoana Petkova, Bulgaria
Barbora Pospisilova, Czech Republic
Sabrina Quek, Singapore
Karen Routhiaux, Belgium
Paula Saraiva, Brazil
Takeshi Shimizu, Japan
Gabija Stachneviciute, Lithuania
Sandra Taboada, Spain
Katja Tepeš, Slovenia
Cristina Tocia, Romania
Yoali Maribel Velasco Santiago, Mexico
Christian von Muhlenbrock, Chile
Victoria Wocalewski, Sweden
Irene Zammarchi, Ireland
Yajie Zhang, China