Nominations are open for the David G. Kendall Award for Young Researchers, which we award jointly with the Bernoulli Society. This biennial award aims to recognise excellent research in mathematical statistics and probability theory and is in honour of David G. Kendall, the first president of the Bernoulli Society, who was awarded the RSS Guy Medal in Silver (1955) and in Gold (1981).
The 2025 edition of the award will honour a career-young researcher working in probability theory and will consist of a €2000 grant together with an award certificate. The winner will deliver the Kendall Lecture during the Bernoulli Society conference in 2026, with the expenses of attendance at this conference covered by the prize grant.
Nominees should be researchers with significant achievements and great potential in the field of probability, who obtained their PhD after 1 January 2017. At the committee’s discretion, up to a year’s credit will be given for each year taken out since receiving the PhD due to parental circumstances.
Nominees must be members of either the Bernoulli Society or the Royal Statistical Society, and we particularly encourage nominations from under-represented groups.
Nominations should be sent by email to
secretariat@bernoullisociety.org and be signed by two members of the BS or the RSS. They must include a name, affiliation and a brief curriculum vitae (including a list of publications) of the nominee, a statement of no more than 100 words summarising the case for nomination, a list of the best three articles and a review of no more than two pages of the nominee’s research contributions.
Self-nominations are permitted but must still be signed by two other BS or RSS members. One person may nominate multiple candidates, but where that happens, they must also provide their own personal ranking of their nominees to the Award Committee.
The members of the 2025 Award Committee are:
Jere Koskela (RSS, Chair)
Sourav Chatterjee (BS)
Xue-Mei Li (BS)
Minmin Wang (RSS)
Nominations close on 30 June 2025.
The winner will be announced in December 2025.