About the Award
Following the tradition of previous XNPIG conferences, started at XNPIG 2017 held in Zurich, the fourth William H. F. Talbot Award will be given to a young scientist for exceptional contribution to the advancement of X-ray and neutron phase imaging with gratings, through either his/her outstanding technical developments or applications, as evidenced by the presentation at XNPIG2026 and supporting publications.
Nominees are qualified if they have performed the work as part of a completed Ph.D. thesis during the five-year period prior to and including the conference, or are expected to receive their degree in the near future. The topics should be appropriate to the themes of the conference, and the work must be available to the award committee as conference papers, publications, or preprints at the time of nomination. Nominees must have submitted an abstract on their work requesting an oral presentation at XNPIG 2026.
Besides the abstract submission of the candidate for the presentation at XNPIG2026, each nominator should submit a William H. F. Talbot Award nomination form with the CV of the nominee, copies of relevant publications or preprints. Supporting letters of recommendation are strongly encouraged. Joint nominations (nominating more than one person for the same work) are not allowed.
This form and supplementary documents must be sent by e-mail to the chairman of award committee (Prof. Dr. Franz Pfeiffer, franz.pfeiffer (at) tum.de ).
Download Nomination Form here –> Link
The deadline for submission of nominations for the award is 22nd of May, 2026.
For nomination submission or questions, please contact the award committee chairman, Prof. Dr. Franz Pfeiffer (XNPIG2026 Chair).
Award Committee
Martin Bech (Lund University, Sweden)
Guan-Hong Chen (Univ. Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
Christian David (PSI, Switzerland)
Julia Herzen (TUM, Germany)
Atsushi Momose (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Jürgen Mohr (KIT, Germany)
Kaye Morgan (Monash Univ., Australia)
Alessandro Olivo (UCL, UK)
Franz Pfeiffer (TUM, Germany)
Marco Stampanoni (PSI/ETH, Switzerland)
Markus Strobl (EES,Sweden)
Zhentian Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
Tiqiao Xiao (SSRF, China)