5th Canine Science Forum
Early Career Scientist Award
Hello!
The organising committee of the 5th Canine Science Forum is extending a special
invitation to early career scientists to submit a presentation proposal on a research
topic relevant to the conference aims and scopes. One outstanding candidate will
be selected to hold a plenary lecture at the CSF 2016. The successful candidate will
receive full coverage of travel and accommodation expenses and free registration
to the conference and social events.
Admission criteria
Candidates for the Early Career Scientist Award can be of any nationality but must
be within 7 years of completion of their PhD (or equivalent higher degree) and
have a scientific track record showing great promise. The candidate must not hold
a permanent academic or equivalent position and must be the (or one of the)
principal investigator(s) of the research project related to their talk. The selected
candidate will be asked to present a review of the project topic including any
relevant results of her/his work. The topic of the proposed presentation must be
relevant to one of the following major themes about dogs and other Canids:
cognition, behavioural biology, evolution of canines, genetics and
endo/phenotyping, dogs and humans, applied aspects of canine biology.
How to apply
Candidates must fill the attached form and submit it to lieta.marinelli@unipd.it
along with a brief curriculum vitae no later than November 15th, 2015.
Judging
The international scientific committee of the CSF 2016 will judge proposals on:
 relevance of the research to the aims and scopes of the conference,
 originality of the research,
 clarity of thought and expression of the research question being addressed,
 research quality.
The selected candidate will be notified and publicly announced on the conference
website by December 30th 2015.
Yours faithfully,
The Scientific Committee of the CSF 2016
Prof. Lieta Marinelli
University of Padua, Italy
lieta.marinelli@unipd.it
Prof. Ádám Miklósi
Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
amiklosi62@gmail.com
Prof. Daniel Mills
University of Lincoln, UK
dmills@lincoln.ac.uk
Dr. Paolo Mongillo
University of Padua, Italy
paolo.mongillo@unipd.it
Prof. Emanuela Prato-Previde
University of Milan, Italy
emanuela.pratoprevide@unimi.it
Prof. Paola Valsecchi
University of Parma, Italy
paolamaria.valsecchi@unipr.it
APPLICATION FORM
Full name of candidate
Title
Current position
Affiliation
Date (month – year) of
obtainment of PhD or
equivalent degree
Title of proposed talk
Abstract (Max 500
words) of the proposed
talk
Title of the research
project related to the talk
Project Founding
Sources
Role of the candidate in
the research project