Bernoulli Society and Royal Statistical Society David G. Kendall Award for Young Researchers – call for nominations

The Award Committee invites nominations for the Bernoulli Society-Royal Statistical Society David G. Kendall Award for Young Researchers. This biennial award aims to recognize excellent research in Mathematical Statistics and in Probability Theory. The award is in honor of David G. Kendall, who was the first president of the Bernoulli Society, and was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver (1955) and in Gold (1981) of the RSS. 

The 2025 edition of the award is organized for young researchers in Probability Theory. The award consists of the prize amount of 2000€ together with an award certificate. The winner will deliver the Kendall Lecture during the Bernoulli Society conferences in 2026. The award should be used to cover the expenses of attendance at this conference.

Nominees should be researchers with significant achievements and great potential in their research field who obtained their PhD after January 1^st, 2017(up to a year’s credit will be given for each year taken out due to parental circumstances since receiving the PhD at the committee’s discretion).  

Nominees must be members of either the Bernoulli Society or the Royal Statistical Society. We particularly encourage nominations from under-represented groups.

Nominations should be communicated to the Award Committee by sending an email to

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and be signed by two members of the BS or the RSS. They must include the name, affiliation, and 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)

The nomination process is open from 1 April 2025 and closes on 30 June 2025.  

The award recipient will be announced in December 2025.

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