Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Biomimetics will be granting the Travel Award to two junior scientists. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Biomimetics Editorial Board.

This award provides financial support for the winners to attend an international conference in the field of biomimetics to be held in 2024, in order to hold a presentation, present a poster, or both.

Candidate Requirements:
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students.
– Plans to attend an international conference in 2024 (oral presentation or poster).

Required Application Documents:
– Information of the conference the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted.
– Curriculum Vitae and list of publications.
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words).
– Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status as a postdoctoral fellow/PhD student.

The winners (two awardees) will each be awarded CHF 500 and a certificate.

Please submit your applications for the Biomimetics 2024 Travel Award online by 30 June 2024. Prizes will be awarded on 31 August 2024 and announced on the Biomimetics website.

Kind regards,
Biomimetics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Biomimetics, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Biomimetics 2023 Travel Award. The award has been granted to Wenda Song, a PhD Student in Bionic Science and Engineering at Jilin University, Changchun, China. He will attend the 7th International Conference of Bionic Engineering (ICBE2023), to be held in Wuhan, China.

As the awardee, he will receive an honorarium of CHF 800, an offer to publish a paper free of charge in 2023 in Biomimetics after peer review, and a certificate.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Stanislav N. Gorb
Editor-in-Chief, Biomimetics

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Biomimetics 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2022 in Biomimetics were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, two winners were selected.

One Review:
Bio-Inspired Robots and Structures toward Fostering the Modernization of Agriculture
By Maria Kondoyanni, Dimitrios Loukatos, Chrysanthos Maraveas, Christos Drosos and Konstantinos G. Arvanitis
Biomimetics 2022, 7(2), 69; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics7020069

One Article:
Nature as a Source of Inspiration for the Structure of the Sydney Opera House
By Juan Rey-Rey
Biomimetics 2022, 7(1), 24; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics7010024

Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and a chance to publish a paper in Biomimetics in 2024 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Biomimetics 2022 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Biomimetics.

Kind regards,
Biomimetics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the following paper was selected as the winner of the Biomimetics Best Paper Award 2018:

• A Parallel Modular Biomimetic Cilia Sorting Platform
• Biomimetics 2018, 3, 5. DOI: 10.3390/biomimetics3020005
• James G. H. Whiting, Richard Mayne and Andrew Adamatzky

The winner was selected based on their originality, contributions to and advancement of the field, as well as the quality of presentation and soundness of the scientific content.

All research and review articles submitted between 1 December 2017 and 31 July 2018 and accepted for publication by the end of November 2018 were eligible for consideration. The evaluation committee was presided by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Josep Samitier, supported by the Editorial Board Members, who examined each paper and expressed their recommendations for the ranking of the Biomimetics Best Paper Award 2018.

In recognition of their accomplishment, the winner will receive 500 CHF and a certificate.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the 2018 Biomimetics Travel Award winner is Dr. Sébastien R. Mouchet.

As a postdoctoral research associate, Dr. Mouchet is conducting research in the Natural Photonics group led by Prof. Pete Vukusik at the University of Exeter, UK, in collaboration with his former supervisor, Prof. Olivier Deparis, at the University of Namur, Belgium. His research focuses on fluorescence emission and coloration changes in natural photonic structures with the aim to develop bioinspired technological solutions for chemical sensing and biosensing.

On behalf of Biomimetics, he will be awarded 500 Swiss Francs to support his participation at the Living Light 2018 Conference that will be held from 11–14 April, 2018 in Cambridge, UK. There, he will present his work on “Controlled fluorescence in beetles’s photonic structures” and “Structural color in Diptera”.

It was a difficult decision with such high quality applications for the award and we would like to thank all applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. We congratulate Dr. Mouchet for his accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Josep Samitier
Editor-in-Chief

Read more about Dr. Mouchet’s research and his experience as an early-career researcher in our ‘Next Generation’ interview https://www.mdpi.com/2313-7673/3/2/10.