Early-Career Sargent Medal

Recognising excellence in digitalisation and process systems engineering

The Early-Career Sargent Medal recognises a promising early career academic or industrial researcher in digitalisation in chemical, biochemical and process engineering.

The medal is named after Roger Sargent, former president of IChemE and Courtaulds professor of chemical engineering at Imperial College, the founding father and intellectual leader of process systems engineering (PSE).

The medal is awarded to an individual who has made a major recent contribution to research into digitalisation in chemical, biochemical and process engineering. The contribution could encompass, but need not be limited to, a concept that has promoted much interest, the solution of an unsolved problem, new methods/tools leading to innovative processes/products, or a significant advance of the state of the art within the area of process systems engineering addressing global challenges.

Nominees must be within the first 15 years of their career (career breaks excluded) and the medal is open to researchers and professionals from both academia and industry. If the nominee is outside of this threshold, please see the Sargent Medal.

Judging criteria

Criteria the Early-Career Sargent Medal will be judged against are:

1. scientific advances – a clear, novel contribution that advances the state of the art
2. scope and significance – demonstrates strong potential for the work to be applied to solve challenging engineering problems
3. significance of impact – early evidence of uptake or influence and alignment with global challenges or the UN SDGs
4. pioneered or advanced a topic – motivated others to follow and established a new area of research, as demonstrated by patents or publications and citations on a specific topic.

How to submit a nomination

To make a nomination for the Early-Career Sargent Medal, open the online nomination form and complete the information requested, paying attention to the criteria the medal will be judged against.

Please note the following:

• additional documents submitted outside the information provided in the nomination form will not be considered by the judges (unless specified otherwise)
• we do not accept self-nominations
• we do not accept nominations for sitting members of the Board of Trustees
• unless indicated otherwise, medals/prizes are generally awarded to individuals – a single medal shall be presented in all cases.

Contact medals@icheme.org for more information.