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SPPS Prizes

SPPS prizes have been established to recognise the work and achievements done in advancement of plant physiology and plant science in general.

Rules and procedures
  • Winners are chosen by the SPPS Council based on nominations from SPPS members
  • Any SPPS member can nominate
  • Only SPPS members can be nominated, except for the Physiologia Plantarum Prize
  • The council can decide to leave a particular prize vacant if no candidate of sufficient quality is nominated.
  • The winners are presented with a monetary award in addition to a certificate.
  • All awards are officially handed out at the SPPS Congress. The winners will be invited to give an oral presentation during the congress and to publish in Physiologia Plantarum

Prize Categories

SPPS Prize

The SPPS Award recognizes the outstanding contribution of a scientist based in a Nordic country to plant biology. Focus is on recent research contribution.

SPPS Popularization Prize

The SPPS Popularisation Prize aims to encourage plant biologists to bring research results to the public. The prize is given to an individual or a group of individuals who have clearly popularised plant biology in newspapers, journal articles, books, television, radio, or other public forums in the Nordic countries.

SPPS Early Career Prize

The SPPS Early Career Prize is awarded to a young, highly talented scientist based in a Nordic country, who has made significant, independent contributions to plant biology. Nominees should have received their doctoral degree less than 10 years before the SPPS Congress.

Physiologia Plantarum Prize

The Physiologia Plantarum Prize recognizes a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to plant science in the areas that are covered by Physiologia Plantarum. This could be either lifetime- or recent breakthrough-type of contributions. The Physiologia Plantarum Prize is open to researchers all over the world and also non SPPS-members can be nominated.

SPPS Plant Innovation Prize

The SPPS Plant Innovation prize is awarded to a scientist based in a Nordic country who has demonstrated how academic plant science could benefit society, through translation into innovations, to new procedures or new policies.

SPPS PhD Thesis Prize

The SPPS PhD thesis prize is awarded to a scientist that has defended the PhD thesis in a Nordic country in the two years prior to the year in which an SPPS Congress is celebrated. The next round for nominations will include students that defend between January 1st, 2024 and December 31st, 2025. The conditions for PhD studies differ between the Nordic countries and the Council will take this into consideration when evaluating the nominations.

How to nominate

A call for nominations is initiated by the Council in the autumn prior to the SPPS Congress. Next deadline for nominations will be December 31st, 2025.

Follow the link below to our nomination form. Remember to make a clear statement about the motivation for the nomination. With the form you will need to upload:

  • An updated CV and publication list for the nominee
  • For the SPPS PhD Thesis Prize, a letter from a supervisor (or another senior scientist with deep insights into the nominee's work) with details about the contribution of the student to the work presented in the thesis
  • Any other files that might support the nomination
  • An updated CV and publication list for the nominnee
  • For the SPPS PhD Thesis Prize, a letter from a supervisor (or another senior scientist with deep insights into the nominee's work) with details about the contribution of the student to the work presented in the thesis
  • Any other files that might support the nomination

Nominate someone for a prize

Previous recipients

SPPS Prize
Physiologia Plantarum Prize
SPPS Early Career Prize
SPPS PhD Thesis Prize:
SPPS Innovation Prize
SPPS Popularisation Prize
  • 2024 Grzegorz Konert
  • 2019 Jens Sundström
  • 2017 Kurt Fagerstedt
  • 2015 Stefan Jansson
  • 2013 Teemu Teeri
  • 2005 Anna Haldrup
  • 2003 Birger Lindberg Møller, Preben Bach Holm
  • 2001 Tor-Henning Iversen
  • 1997 Lars-Olof Björn
  • 1988 Liisa Simola
  • 1985 Anders Johnsson
  • 1982 Lars-Olof Björn
  • 1979 Georg Hygen