IIAS “Michael Bruno” Memorial Award
About the Bruno Memorial Award
The Michael Bruno Memorial Award was initiated in 1999 in memory of Professor Michael Bruno, after his untimely death in 1996. Professor Bruno served as Governor of the Bank of Israel from 1986-1991, was awarded the Israel Prize for Economics, and was Chair of the Board of the Rothschild Prizes Organization.
This prestigious award seeks to identify and honour three outstanding Israeli young scholars each year who symbolize not only the excellence of scholarship, but who also possess the leadership that has the potential to impact academic life in Israel, beyond their specific fields of research. Each laureate is expected to present a proposal that details how, in conjunction with the IIAS, they will continue to pursue new fields of research in order to fulfil their academic goals.
One characteristic of Bruno laureates is their ability to move creatively beyond their current fields of research, entering new avenues. It is this creativity which the IIAS seeks to embrace and support.
Deadline: April 30, 2023 (midnight)
The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) hereby invites all full professors (current or emeriti) at Israeli research institutions to nominate candidates for the Michael Bruno Memorial Award for mid-career scholars in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Law.
The 2023 Michael Bruno Memorial Award
The Michael Bruno Memorial Award is granted annually to three outstanding mid-career Israeli scholars who have demonstrated an exceptional originality of mind, dedication and ground-breaking impact in their research, and who have managed to influence and re-shape their field of expertise. This award, a personal prize in an amount of 200,000 NIS, is the highest recognition of past accomplishments, but they are also a vote of confidence in the laureates’ future achievements and contributions to research and to Israeli academia.
As of 2022 the award alternates each year between STEM scholars and scholars in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Law. The 2023 award will be granted to scholars in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Law.
Timeline
February 15, 2023 the submission platform opens for nominations
April 30, 2023 Deadline for submitting nominations
November 30, 2023 Announcement of the 2023 Bruno Award laureates
January 2024 Academic Symposium in collaboration with the laureates
Who can nominate Bruno candidates?
The nominator must be a full professor or professor emeritus from any Israeli research institution. Each nominator may nominate only one candidate. No self-nominations will be accepted. Candidates should not be informed of their nomination.
Candidate eligibility
Eligible candidates must be faculty members in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Law in Israeli research institutions who are under 50 years of age as of February 15, 2023.
Nomination process
The nomination deadline is April 30, 2023 and the form is to be submitted online.
The nomination form and all attached materials must be in English.
In the online form, the nominator is asked to enter the following details:
- The candidate’s personal information: full name, date of birth, affiliation
- Short description of your reasons for nominating the candidate (maximum 150 words)
- Description of your relationship to the candidate, including comments pertaining to any potential conflicts of interest
- A list of the candidates’ three most important publications
- Indication of the h-index, if applicable
- A list of 4 international experts in the candidate’s field and their contact information.
In addition to the above, the nominator is required to provide the following documents (pdf format):
- The candidate’s professional CV and a full list of publications
- A letter written by the nominator recommending the candidate, and detailing the candidate’s impact on his/her research field and unique contributions
- A letter from an additional faculty member in Israel (need not be a full professor but must be from a different academic institution than the nominator)
- PDFs of the candidate’s three most important publications (indicated in the online form). If one of these publications is a book, one representative chapter from the book will suffice.
Incomplete applications will not be considered.
The selection processes
The selection is carried out in two stages. At the first stage, the list of candidates will be narrowed to a shortlist. At the second stage, each candidate on the shortlist will be evaluated with the help of external referees.
The candidates are selected by an external selection committee of renowned scholars (3-5 people) in the relevant fields. The decision of the selection committee will then be passed to the approval of the IIAS Board of Directors, before being announced officially.
The selected laureates and their nominators will be personally informed. A general announcement will be sent to all nominators via email.
Questions may be directed to Ms. Or Baum, IIAS Secretary, at orbau@savion.huji.ac.il