Student Awards (Bernhard Gross Award)

The Bernhard Gross Award highlights the best oral presentation and the best poster of each symposium, among those presented by undergraduate and graduate students.

The selection is based on the evaluation carried out by the organizers of each symposium using criteria defined by the B-MRS Awards Committee.

The winners receive a certificate, and their names and pictures are published on B-MRS channels.

Among the winners of the Bernhard Gross Award, the works with the best evaluations from the entire event are chosen to receive prizes from the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).

ACS Publications Student Prizes

Three posters and three oral presentations will receive the ACS Publications Best Poster Prize and the ACS Publications Best Oral Presentation Prize, respectively. The prizes will consist of R$ 1.700,00 for each winning work, in addition to the certificate.

RSC Student Prizes

Three posters and three oral presentations will receive the RSC Best Poster Prize and the RSC Best Oral Presentation Prize, respectively. The prizes will consist of R$ 1.700,00 for each winning work, in addition to the certificate.

Conditions to compete and receive the student awards and prizes:

• To be an undergraduate, master's or doctoral student. PhDs who completed their doctorate in 2025 and are presenting data from their thesis, will be allowed to compete for the award.
• To submit a conventional abstract to any B-MRS Meeting symposium as the author of the paper.
• To receive the notification of acceptance of the conventional abstract
• To submit an extended abstract of the work, according to the event template.
• To actually present the work in an oral or poster session at any B-MRS Meeting symposium. The presentation must be made by the student who is competing for the award.
• To be present at the closing ceremony of the B-MRS Meeting, which will be held on the last day of the event.

Evaluation criteria

• Understanding of the research topic by the candidate.
• Quality of the research carried out.
• Originality of the contribution.
• Presentation quality.
• Extended abstract quality.

Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: July 10
Extended abstract template:
https://www.sbpmat.org.br/24encontro/files/extendedAbstract2026.docx

B-MRS Early Career Woman Scientist Prize

This award recognizes the best work presented within the oral sessions of the B-MRS Meeting symposia by a woman with a PhD degree, at the beginning of her scientific career.

To select the winner, the organizers of each symposium will nominate up to one candidate, following criteria defined by the B-MRS Awards Committee. From this list, the award committee will select the winner.

The prize, sponsored by the publisher MDPI, consists of a value in reais equivalent to 500 Swiss francs and the opportunity to publish, free of charge, after peer review, an article in the open access journal Electronic Materials (MDPI).

Conditions to compete and receive the prize:

• To be a woman.
• To have defended the doctorate between 2016 and 2025.
• To submit the conventional abstract within any B-MRS Meeting symposium
• To receive the notification of acceptance of the conventional abstract.
• To submit an extended abstract of the work, according to the event template.
• To actually present the work in an oral session of any B-MRS Meeting symposium.
• To be present at the closing ceremony of the B-MRS Meeting, which will be held on the last day of the event.

Evaluation criteria

• Understanding of the research topic by the candidate.
• Quality of the research carried out.
• Originality of the contribution.
• Presentation quality.
• Extended abstract quality.
• Sum of the impact factors of the work published by the researcher in the last 5 years.

Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: July 10
Extended abstract template:
https://www.sbpmat.org.br/24encontro/files/extendedAbstract2026.docx