“Deep Life Paper” and “SiYuan-Ocean Emerging Leaders” Awards were established in 2021 by International Center for Deep Life Investigation (IC-DLI), which is the international platform for communication and collaboration in deep life research.

The purpose of the awards is to recognize significant scholarly contributions and outstanding early career researchers in order to encourage further contributions into deep life research and foster the next generation of researchers in this field. IC-DLI selects five “Deep Life Paper” and two “SiYuan-Ocean Emerging Leaders” annually.

In the past three years, IC-DLI has produced 14 “Deep Life Papers” and 6 young researchers as “SiYuan-Ocean Emerging Leaders” (For more information of past winners, please visit: https://icdli.sjtu.edu.cn/Data/List/Webinar). All winners were invited to give impressive talks in IC-DLI webinars series and the series have attracted thousands of researchers worldwide. IC-DLI is expecting more researchers who have passion and interest in deep life research to join us, participate in award nomination, selection and webinar series followed.

Here we are calling for nomination of 2023 awards.

“Deep Life Paper”

We have prepared a nominations list in the attachment with 75 papers currently. All papers were published in 2023 and contributed important results or break-through discoveries to deep life investigation. If you find outstanding deep life papers are not involved in the paper list, please provide the title of paper to Dr. Manping Zhang by email: icdli-mailing@sjtu.edu.cn. Please indicate recommendation for 2023 "Deep Life Paper" in the email.

The paper should be published within the period of January 1st, 2023 to December 31th, 2023.

“SiYuan-Ocean Emerging Leaders”

Candidates of "Siyuan-Ocean Emerging Leaders" should be early career researchers within eight years of PhD, who exhibit distinguished performance and outstanding potential as leaders of the deep life community.

Please provide the name, affiliation of candidate and brief reason for recommendation to Dr. Manping Zhang by email: icdli-mailing@sjtu.edu.cn. Please indicate recommendation for 2023 "Siyuan-Ocean Emerging Leaders" in the email.

Deadline

Deadline for nomination of “Deep Life Paper” and “SiYuan-Ocean Emerging Leaders” is January 16, 2024 at 11:59pm (Beijing Time). Afterwards, we will initiate voting process for “Deep Life Paper” and “SiYuan-Ocean Emerging Leaders”.

Any comments and suggestions are more than welcomed. We appreciate your kind support to IC-DLI and effort in promoting the development of deep life research filed.

Attachment: nomination list of 2023 Deep Life Paper