The Young Scientist Prize is granted by IUPAP Commissions. Successful candidates will have up to 8 years of research experience following Ph.D. (excluding career interruptions). Each commission can give up to three awards over three years (these can be one per year or all three awarded together). The award consists of a certificate, medal and a monetary award. A presentation will take place at an international conference sponsored through the commission.
The 2014 IUPAP Young Scientist prize for the Commission on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (C15) was awarded to Jacob Taylor for groundbreaking advances in the design of compact, practical devices that bridge the classical world with the exotic quantum world.