Awards/Honors

The Asian Union of Thermal Science and Engineering (AUTSE) has initiated a call for nominations for AUTSE Young Scientist Award 2026. The AUTSE Young Scientist Award is awarded every two years to a certain number of scientists who are younger than thirty-five years old at the time of the Award presentation and who are active in the field of thermal sciences and thermal engineering.
 
Nominations are proposed by the AUTSE Awards Committee appointed by the Executive Board. Nominations for the Young Scientist Award are based on their current research achievements and scientific level of the PhD Thesis, the originality and generality of the work, the suitability and novelty of their modelling and/or experimental method, and the importance of their results for thermal sciences. Candidates will be recommended by their national Thermal Science Associations with up to two candidates nominated from each member country/region of AUTSE. The Awards are presented to honor the contributions of well-established thermal scientists in Asia and to encourage outstanding young scientists in their thermal science research work so that excellent young scientists are quickly recognized in the scientific community.
 
 
1. The candidates:
Young Scientist Award candidates must have obtained their Ph.D. within one of the AUTSE member countries/regions in the thermal sciences and heat transfer fields. They should be younger than thirty-five years old at the date of the prize. Each Asian member country/region is allowed to nominate a maximum of two candidates each time the Award is presented.
 

2. Nomination process:
The national representatives of the AUTSE Committee will organize a national committee in conjunction with their national professional bodies (if they exist) composed of several senior scientists working in various areas of the thermal sciences and heat transfer fields. This committee disseminates information about the prize and selects the national nominee(s). Nominations should be sent to their respective national committees. The deadline for nominations for the AUTSE Young Scientist Award 2026 is due February 28, 2026. All packages must be sent via email in PDF format to Prof. Bingyang Cao:

caoby@tsinghua.edu.cn.

3. Submission of documents:

• Representative papers published in English in international journals or in conference proceedings with reviews of the contributions made by these papers that illustrate the nominee’s main research contributions. All these papers must be authored by the candidate with the main contribution to this research coming from the candidate.
• Curriculum vitae
• Full list of publications
• Document to verify the age

Young Scientist Award nominations should also include the candidate’s Ph.D. thesis that has been defended within the last five years. If not in English, the thesis should have an English summary of at least five pages. Young Scientist Award nominations can also include assessments of the thesis if available and a list of awards received by the candidate such as cum laude.
 

4. Award Committee:
The final award review committee will be formed once every two years in the Executive Board meeting of AUTSE to select the award recipients. The final awardees recommended by the award review committee will then be approved by the Executive Board committee of AUTSE.
 

5. The assessment criteria:
The following criteria will be taken into account for the assessment:

• Scientific level
• Originality and generality of the work
• Importance of the results for thermal sciences and heat transfer
• Novelty of the modelling and/or of the experimental methods for thermal sciences and heat transfer

The nomination of Fellow for Asian Union of Thermal Science and Engineering (AUTSE) is announced every two years.
 
 
1. The candidates:
Candidates for Fellow should have demonstrated significant individual responsibility and should have sustained achievements and professionalism in the field of thermal sciences and engineering. In principle, candidates should not be over 65 years of age, and have no less than ten (10) years of active practice.
 

2. Nomination process:
A nomination for AUTSE Fellow must be initiated by an AUTSE Fellow who has intimate knowledge of the nominee’s background. The nominator is solely responsible for preparing all the documents. The deadline for the submission of the complete nomination is announced every two years. Fellow Review Committee will evaluate the nominations before the awarding ceremony.
 

3. Submission of documents:
Each nomination should contain:

• Letter of nomination
• Resume/CV or professional record
• Major publications/paper summary
• Three (3) supporting letters from the Fellows

4. The assessment criteria:
The following criteria will be considered for the assessment:

• Scientific level
• Originality and generality of the work
• Significance of the results for thermal sciences and heat transfer
• Novelty of the modeling and/or of the experimental methods for thermal sciences and heat transfer
• Contribution to the thermal science and engineering community and industry
• Involvement with AUTSE activities

5. Fellow Recognition:
Those nominees promoted to Fellow by the Fellow Review Committee will be presented with a Fellow certificate.
 

★ Founding Fellow
The Fellow at the commencement of AUTSE is called “Founding Fellow”, which can be nominated by each society. Contemplating lifetime achievement and contribution to AUTSE, Founding Fellows are elected.