2020 Galaxies Best Paper Award for the Topical Collection "A Trip across the Universe: Our Present Knowledge and Future Perspectives" aims to celebrate the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Emilio Elizalde (800 CHF)

Winner Announcement Deadline: 31 January 2022

Galaxies Editorial Office is inviting submissions to the Topical Collection "A Trip across the Universe: Our Present Knowledge and Future Perspectives". You can see more details about the Topical Collection here (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/galaxies/special_issues/UniversePerspectives). One winner will be selected for this award based on the citations by 31 December 2021.

Judging Criteria

• Scientific merit and broad impact;
• Relevance to the Topical Collection’s field;
• Originality of research objectives and/or ideas presented;
• Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of approaches and concepts;
• Clarity of presentation.

Please submit your paper here (https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload?journal=galaxies), the sooner the better.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winners of 2020 Galaxies Travel Awards:

Dr. Carolina Casadio, a Postdoctoral Fellow from IA-FORTH (Crete), will attend “15th EVN Symposium”, 6–10 July 2020 in Cork/IRL, to present her paper “Search for 10⁶ to 10¹⁰ Solar Masses Gravitational Lenses”.

Dr. Daniele Gregoris, a Fostdoctoral Fellow from Yangzhou University, will attend “The Fourth Zeldovich meeting”, 20–24 April 2020 in Minsk, Belarus, to present his paper “Curvature Invariants, and Black Holes Horizons”.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for their submissions which, collectively, represent a diverse and fascinating range of research topics. I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Emilio Elizalde

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Galaxies Travel Awards:

Andrea Rossi, a post-doctoral fellow from INAF, will attend the conference “Gamma-ray Bursts in the Gravitational Wave Era 2019”, 28 October–1 November 2019, in Yokohama, Japan, to present his paper “A Comparison between Short GRB afterglows and KN170817: Shedding Light on Kilonovae Properties”.

Maria Tiongco, a post-doctoral fellow from Indiana University, will attend the conference “IAU Symposium 351: Star Clusters: from the Milky Way to the Early Universe”, 27-31 May 2019, in Bologna, Italy, to present her paper “Kinematical Evolution of Multiple Stellar Populations in Star Clusters”.

Due to the high quality of applications, this was a difficult decision. We would like to thank all applicants for submitting their excellent CVs and we appreciate the recommendations from senior researchers. I congratulate the winners for their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Emilio Elizalde, Editor-in-Chief

Galaxies provides an advanced forum for studies related to astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology, including all of their subfields. Different formats, such as specialized research articles, reviews, communications, and technical notes are welcomed. Manuscripts containing original and creative research proposals and ideas are especially appreciated.

We encourage scientists to publish their astronomical observations and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the paper length and full experimental and methodological details, as applicable, should be provided. All papers will be peer reviewed promptly. On behalf of the distinguished members of the editorial board, I extend my welcome to all researchers working on these subjects to contribute to Galaxies.

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As Editor-in-Chief of Galaxies, I am pleased to announce the two winners of the 2018 Travel Awards sponsored by Galaxies:

Travel Awards were granted to Dr. Rosa Valiante, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) at the Astronomical Observatory of Rome, Italy, and Dr. Mar Mezcua, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona, Spain. The awards consist of 800 Swiss Francs each, to attend any academic conference in 2018.

Dr. Rosa Valiante’s research involves elaborating models on the evolution of the first galaxies and their immediate descendants, and aims to compare model predictions with existing observational data. She addresses questions on the evolution of the first cosmic structures, with the aim of determining the origin and properties of high-z dust, which have major implications on the interpretation of observational surveys and on the design of selection criteria to search for the first galaxies.

Dr. Mar Mezcua’s work aims at understanding how supermassive black holes form and grow and how this growth affects the galaxy itself. She investigates a wide range of astronomical objects, such as intermediate-mass black holes, dwarf galaxies, ultra-luminous X-ray sources, active galactic nuclei, radio jets, galaxy mergers, and supermassive binary black holes, following a multiwavelength approach, which involves radio, optical, infrared and X-ray observations.