{"id":29,"date":"2024-11-15T08:54:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T08:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icmrm.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2026-01-04T22:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:36:41","slug":"competitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/icmrm.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de\/competitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Competitions & Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Paul Callaghan Young Investigator Award<\/strong>
Erwin Hahn Lecturer Award<\/a>
Poster Award<\/a>
Image Beauty Competition<\/a>
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Paul Callaghan Young Investigator Award<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sir Paul Terence Callaghan (19th<\/sup> August 1947 \u2013 24th<\/sup> March 2012) was a New Zealand physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society who authored over 230 journal articles that present major advances in NMR methodologies for the study of molecular dynamics and molecular organization in complex fluids, soft matter and porous materials. He is most well known in the ICMRM community for his contributions in Rheo-NMR, diffusion of molecules in porous media, and development of NMR techniques that utilise the earth\u2019s magnetic field. As the founding director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology at Victoria University of Wellington, he held the position of Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was also an outstanding and beloved mentor to young investigators in the ICMRM community. He was involved with the ICMRM conference through organization and participation from the very beginning in 1991 until his last attendance in China, 2011. He placed a high priority on attending the Young Investigator section at the meeting, and could be relied on to engage with all the finalists in the Young Investigator competition through thought provoking questions and follow-up discussion. In 2013, the Young Investigator Award was renamed the Paul Callaghan Young Investigator Award<\/em> in honour of his commitment to mentoring young investigators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recognition of the merits of Sir Paul Terence Callaghan, young investigators, i.e. students or postdocs up to 2 years after receiving their PhD, are eligible to contribute papers for the Young Investigator competition. A jury selected by the conference organisers will select up to five to present their work in a plenary session. The best presentation receives the Paul Callaghan Award<\/em> during the conference banquet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025’s Awardee<\/mark><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Pierre Estienne<\/a><\/strong> from NeuroSpin, CEA-Saclay, France, received the Paul Callaghan Young Investigator Award for his presentation entitled Functional Brain Imaging and Targeted Lesion Studies Using Manganese-Enhanced MRI and Focused Ultrasound in Non-Conventional Model Species<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Paul Callaghan Young Investigator Award<\/a>
Erwin Hahn Lecturer Award<\/strong>
Poster Award<\/a>
Image Beauty Competition<\/a>
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Erwin Hahn Lecturer Award<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Erwin Louis Hahn (9th<\/sup> June 1921 \u2013 20th<\/sup> September 2016) was an American physicist and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences who authored many groundbreaking articles that present major advances in magnetic resonance and optics. He is most well known in the science community for his contributions in time reversal phenomena, in nuclear quadrupole resonance and in nuclear magnetic resonance for the spin echoes and in optics for self-induced transparency. He was the first to perform pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance and to record the first free induction decay.  Erwin Hahn joined the Department of Physics at the University of California Berkeley as an assistant professor in 1955, becoming a full professor in 1961 and then an emeritus in 1991. Being professor emeritus at UC Berkeley he received in 2016 the Gold Medal from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), the society\u2019s highest honor, for his creation of pulsed magnetic resonance and processes of signal refocusing which are essential to, and the foundation of, modern day magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was an extremely passionate lover of physics, a brilliant mind and remained excited about the wonders of our physical world throughout his life. He was a beloved mentor to young students who benefited from his experience and presence in the laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recognition of the merits of Erwin Louis Hahn, before each conference the organizers will solicit brief nominations from the Executive and Division Committee. The Executive Committee will choose the recipient of the Erwin Hahn Lecturer Award<\/em> from these nominations. It will be given to a highly visible researcher who has provided a lifetime of contributions to the SRMR community. The recipient will be asked to deliver a keynote speech at the ICMRM conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025’s Awardee<\/mark><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Lynn Gladden<\/a><\/strong> from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, received the Erwin Hahn Lecturer Award and gave her lecture on Spatially-Resolved Magnetic Resonance: More Than Just a Camera<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Paul Callaghan Young Investigator Award<\/a>
Erwin Hahn Lecturer Award<\/a>
Poster Award<\/strong>
Image Beauty Competition<\/a>
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Poster Award<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

During ICMRM posters will be judged by a jury. The presenter of the best poster will be announced and receive an award during the conference banquet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025’s Awardee<\/mark><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Xiaoxun Chen<\/strong> from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, received the poster award for his presentation entitled Next generation optical widefield magnetic resonance microscopy<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Paul Callaghan Young Investigator Award<\/a>
Erwin Hahn Lecturer Award<\/a>
Poster Award<\/a>
Image Beauty Competition<\/strong>
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Image Beauty Competition<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yang Xia initiated an Image Beauty Contest in 2007. The first award was conducted inside the caves of Feestgrot, Valkenburg, the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all have those moments in the lab where nothing seems to be working. We just get some odd-looking images from our experiments \u2013 full of artifacts \u2013 that is our jargon. If you have not yet had one of these moments, you have not pushed your machine hard enough. Or occasionally, we need to generate some pretty looking images, to be used to impress potential students or visitors. So, one way or another, we all have these images that we do not know what to do with them. This contest is your chance to show off these images that otherwise would never see the light (i.e., be published). Actually getting a nice-looking image is not easy. It needs a deep understanding of NMR imaging, both in theory and in practice. It needs an appreciation of art. It also needs the personal character of a perfectionist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since this is a beauty contest, beauty has to be the most important criteria. In our language, the SNR matters; the resolution matters; the image contrast matters; and artifact and distortion matters. Most of all, the overall artistic impression matters. In a way, if you think that your image is worth being framed and hanged on the wall of someone\u2019s living room, you have a winning entry. Entries are made anonymously at the ICMRM conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025’s Winner<\/mark><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Marcel Ochsendorf<\/strong> from the Fraunhofer MEVIS, Germany, won the Image Beauty Competition with his MR image of a pineapple.<\/p>\n\n\n

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