Awards > Maurice Godet award

This prize was launched at the 30^th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology in 2003 to honour the memory of Professor Maurice Godet, one of the founders of the Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology. The prize is awarded to the best paper and presentation by a registered young scientist at each Leeds-Lyon conference when hosted in Lyon.

The recipient of the 2019 Maurice Godet Award is Julia Lehmann, from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, for her work on Velocity-dependence of tribologically-induced oxidation of high-purity copper.

The winner has been announced during the closing session of the Symposium. The prize consists in a plaque and a cheque of 500 €.

The criteria considered by an international committee were as follows for this year:

• The first author (the applicant) must be a registered PhD student or has defended his/her PhD in 2019,
• The applicant has previously submitted a one-page abstract in the regular process (via the website before February 24, 2019). The applicant must present the paper at the symposium orally,
• The majority of the work presented has been performed by the applicant,
• The applicant must notify of her/his application for the prize by email to leeds-lyon2019-Godet_award@sciencesconf.org. A Curriculum Vitae (2 pages max) + an extended abstract (2 pages max) must be sent as attached files (please use the templates provided with these links),
• Deadline for submissions: Friday, June 28^th, 2019.