EFTF Awardees 2026
The EFTF Young Scientist Award
The EFTF Young Scientist Award is conferred in recognition of a personal contribution that demonstrated a high degree of initiative and creativity and led to already established or easily foreseeable outstanding advances in the field of time and frequency metrology. The award honors a person under the age of 40 at the date of the opening session of the EFTF conference
Dr. Takuma Nakamura, NIST
“For advancing the state-of-the-art in ultrastable microwave frequency generation using photonics technologies, including the demonstration of microwave signals with 10-18 instability.”
The European Frequency and Time Award
The European Frequency and Time Award has been awarded since 1993 first biannually, from 2005 annually, with the goal of recognizing outstanding contributions in all fields covered by the EFTF.
Professor Gaetano Mileti, Uni Neuchâtel
Professor Gaetano Mileti, Uni Neuchâtel
“For his outstanding contributions to the development of innovative compact atomic clocks and his continuous commitment to the time and frequency community.”
The Marcel Ecabert Award
The Marcel Ecabert Award of the European Frequency and Time Forum (EFTF) is a lifetime award and honors the excellent achievements of the recipient in the field of time and frequency. It is named after the late Marcel Ecabert, founding member of the EFTF and member of its Executive Committee.
Javier Benedicto, ESA
“For advancing the state-of-the-art in ultrastable microwave frequency generation using photonics technologies, including the demonstration of microwave signals with 10-18 instability.”
The Awards 2026 are sponsored by EFTF 2026.
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