Wu-Ki Tung Award for Early-Career Research on QCD

The Wu-Ki Tung award is to recognize outstanding contributions made by early-career physicists on experimental or theoretical research on Quantum Chromodynamics. One or, in exceptional cases, two awards will be given annually, each with a monetary prize of $5,000, travel support to give an invited lecture to a CTEQ Summer School, and a plaque citing the contributions of the recipient. Nominations of candidates whose work has contributed to the interplay of theoretical and experimental research on QCD are especially encouraged.

CTEQ is dedicated to serving a global community of physicists and fostering an inclusive environment worldwide. We welcome nominations from across the physics community, reflecting a broad range of backgrounds and perspectives that enrich our field.

Eligibility

Nominees must have received a Ph.D. in experimental or theoretical particle physics within the last seven years, excluding any career breaks, by the time of nomination.

Nomination & Selection Process

Nominations for the 2025 Wu-Ki Tung Award are now accepted here

The nomination should include the following:

Nominations will remain active for one additional year and can be updated. The deadline for nominations is October 15, 2025. The recipient will be selected by the CTEQ Collaboration and will be notified in December 2025.

Information for contributing to the Wu-Ki Tung Award Fund can be found here

Questions may be directed to Nikos Varelas

Past Recipients

For outstanding contributions to the development of innovative techniques for jet energy calibration and the measurement of the …

For seminal contributions to the advancement of parton-shower event generators and the development of novel matching schemes to exploit …