Logo Contest

IUCr Commission on High Pressure is seeking a creative logo to represent its professional mission statement.

Therefore, the logo contest is running, with the deadline on Aug. 1, 2025.

Log Contest Award

The winner will be granted 1,500 Chinese Yuan (RMB).

Contest contributors need register and participant this upcoming workshop at Shanghai. The winning logo will be officially announced at the reception night on Sep. 21, 2025. Together with a special diploma signed by review committee chairs, award will be paid in cash on-site.

IUCr Young and Early Career Scientists Awards

We have limited funding support from IUCr for Young and Early Career Scientists Awards.

Early-career scientists are graduate students, post-graduate students or post-doctoral fellows within five (5) years of receiving a graduate degree. Academic interruptions, including periods of parental leave, are taken into account. 

Preference should be given to those early-career scientists who have published in IUCr journals and to early-career scientists from developing countries, particularly, but not limited to, from Latin America, Africa and South East Asia. 

For meetings of a more general nature preference should be given to early-career scientists with a crystallographic background. 

Applicant need register and participant this upcoming workshop at Shanghai, and submit application documents including:

Cover letter, CV and supporting letter from applicant‘s supervisor

to review committee before the deadline of Aug. 15, 2025. The winers will be noticed via email and officially announced at the banquet night on Sep. 24, 2025. Together with a special diploma signed by review committee chairs, award will be paid in cash on-site.

Review & Approval

The logo review committee and Young Scientist Awards review committee will be chaired by Drs. Arthur Haozhe Liu and Kamil Dziubek. After collecting the logo contributions, the current IUCr CHP committee members and previous chairs of this committee will discuss and vote for the winning design on the logo. This winning logo will be used at IUCr CHP homepage and the future workshop organized by this committee.

Young Scientist Awards review will be handled by the local organizing committee together with the current IUCr CHP committee chair.

Send your log design or Young Scientist Awards application documents to: haozhe.liu@hpstar.ac.cn and kamil.dziubek@univie.ac.at.

Mission statement of IUCr CHP

• To develop and strengthen links and interactions between the field of high-pressure crystallography and the whole field of high-pressure science.
• To keep the scope of ‘high-pressure crystallography’ under ongoing review, and continue to make it as wide and inclusive as possible without compromising its crystallographic identity.
• To promote and encourage the development and dissemination of best practice in high-pressure crystallographic methods and procedures.
• To collect, and make available, current information on central facilities for high-pressure crystallography, and on how to access them.
• To encourage, and where possible assist, young scientists and others new to the field of high-pressure crystallography.
• To advise the IUCr in organising or sponsoring sessions on high-pressure crystallography at Congresses and conferences.
• To promote and coordinate scientific exchange between countries in the field of high-pressure crystallography.
• To cooperate with other Commissions of the Union on matters dealing with high-pressure crystallography.
• To cooperate with other international bodies interested in high-pressure crystallography and allied subjects.