Early Career Prize and Travel Award Scheme

The Metabolomics Society Early Career Awards recognize outstanding academic achievement.

Early Career researchers* (ECRs)  can apply for one of (10) Early Career Travel Awards to support their attendance at the Metabolomics Society annual conference. If successful, they are eligible to compete for the Metabolomics Society Early Career Prize, awarded to the top-scoring ECR presentation.

*Eligibility, applicants must be:
  • Within 5 years of obtaining highest degree.
  • A current/paid member of the Metabolomics Society continuously for at least 3 months prior to the conference.
  • Submit an abstract for the conference in the “Oral or Poster” category.
  • Register for the conference and attend in person.
  • Not eligible for the Metabolomics Society Student Travel Awards
Student and Early Career abstracts that are submitted for travel awards will be reviewed by the SOC.  You can only receive one award, either from the Society or an affiliate/sponsor.

Metabolomics Society 2024 Early Career Award Winners

  • Catalina Cuparencu – University Of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Tito Damiani – IOCB Prague, Czech Republic
  • Anna Mascellani Bergo – Czech University Of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
  • Loic Mervant – The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom
  • Cathleen Mirande-Ney – Bordeaux University/ UMR 1332, BFP, INRAE Bordeaux, France
  • Stefan A. Pieczonka – Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany ** Prize Winner
  • Robin Schmid – Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Republic
  • Xiuli Su – Hong Kong Baptist University, China
  • Changyu Yi – Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia
  • Danyue Daisy Zhao – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Metabolomics Society 2023 Early Career Award Winners

  • Stephanie L. Bishop – University of Calgary, Canada
  • Minghao Gong – The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, United States
  • Hossein Hazrati – Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Ville Koistinen – University of Turku, Finland
  • Nuanyi Liang – University of California Davis, United States
  • Topi Meuronen – University of Turku, Finland
  • Safira Putri – Osaka University, Japan
  • Matteo Sangermani – NTNU, Norway
  • Kenya Tanaka – Kobe University, Japan
  • Simone Zuffa – University of California San Diego, United States ** Prize Winner

Metabolomics Society 2022 Early Career Award Winners

  • Julia Debik – Norwegian University of Science & Tech, Norway
  • Miguel Fernández-Niño – Leibniz Inst. of Plant Biochemistry, Colombia
  • Alice Flint – Queen’s University Belfast, UK
  • Abhishek Jain – Yale University, USA
  • Marta Moreno-Torres – Health Research Institute La Fem, Spain
  • Susana Alejandra Palma Duran – The Francis Crick Institute, UK
  • Nicole Prince – Brigham & Women’s Hospital, USA ** Prize Winner
  • Kapil Dev Singh – University of Basel, Switzerland
  • Ilias Thomas – Örebro University, Sweden
  • Jin Xu – King’s College London, UK

Metabolomics Society 2019 Early Career Award Winners

  • Jordi Capellades Tomàs – IISPV, Spain
  • Joanna Godzien – Medical University of Bialystok, Poland
  • Sarah Hancock – University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Yu-Han Hsu – Harvard Medical School, USA
  • Mengna Huang – Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
  • Adam Jozwiak – Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Youzhong Liu – University of Antwerp, Belgium
  • Marina Muelas – ** Prize Winner
  • Sara Vicente-Muñoz – NMR-Based Metabolomics Core Facility, USA
  • Alesia Walker – Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

Metabolomics Society 2018 Early Career Award Winners

  • Violetta Aru – University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Natasa Giallourou – Imperial College London, UK ** Prize Winner
  • Takanari Hattori – Shimadzu Corporation, Japan
  • Maaria Kortesniemi – University of Turku / University of California Davis
  • Yuanyuan Li – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  • Arjun Sengupta – University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Jalal Khalid Siddiqui – The Ohio State University, USA
  • Fidele Tugizimana – University of Johannesburg, and Omnia Ltd, South Africa
  • Arpana Vaniya – UC Davis West Coast Metabolomics Center, USA
  • Danyue Zhao – Rutgers University, USA

Metabolomics Society 2017 Early Career Award Winners

  • Maike Aurich, LCSB – Université du Luxembourg
  • Dara Daygon – The University of Queensland
  • Christopher Depner – University of Colorado Boulder
  • Helena Gibbons – University College Dublin
  • Rachel Kelly – Harvard Medical School
  • Julia Kuligowski – Health Research Institute La Fe
  • Raluca Maltesen – Aalborg University Hospital
  • Jan Stanstrup – Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen
  • Umaporn Uawisetwathana – National Center Genetic Engineering & Biotech
  • Candice Ulmer – National Institute of Standards and Technology

Metabolomics Society 2016 Early Career Award Winners

  • Andrew Palmer – EMBL
  • Jonathan Mosley – US Environmental Protection Agency
  • Zoe Hall – US Environmental Protection Agency
  • Christian Hellmuth – LMU Munich
  • Agnieszka Smolinska – Maastricht University
  • Lena Fragner – University of Vienna
  • Clare Scott Chialvo – University of Alabama
  • Rosa Vázquez-Fresno – University of Alberta
  • Morgan Cichon – The Ohio State University
  • Rachel Kelly – Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School

Metabolomics Society 2015 Early Career Award Winners

  • Ralf Weber – University of Birmingham
  • Stacey Reinke – Karolinska Institutet
  • Elodie Jobard – Centre de RMN à Trés Hauts Champs de Lyon
  • Markus Keller
  • San-Yuan Wang
  • Anna Halama – Weil Cornell Medical College, Qatar
  • Andrew Palmer – European Molecular Biology Laboratory
  • Weidong Zhang
  • Jan Stanstrup – Fondazione Edmund Mach
  • Venea Dara – Daygon University of Queensland