Award
The 2021 Samson – Prime Minister’s prize for innovation in alternative energy and smart mobility for transportation
The $1 million prize is the largest monetary prize awarded in the field of alternative energy and smart mobility.
The Eric and Sheila Samson Prize, totaling one million US dollars, is the world’s largest monetary prize awarded in the field of alternative fuels and smart mobility, and is awarded yearly to scientists who have made critical advancements towards achieving this goal. The Ministry of Science & Technology is leading, every year, the rigorous selection process of the winners. The winners are selected from a long list of worthy candidates recommended for the prize by university presidents and CEOs in industry, from Israel and from around the world. The winners are selected by a committee of international experts who submit their recommendation to a board of trustees.
2021 Winners
The Prize for Groundbreaking Research in The
Areas of Smart Mobility
PROF. JAMES LIAO
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
President of Academia Sinica
Prof. Avner Rothschild
Technion- Israel Institute of Technology ISRAEL Professors Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering
prof. Gideon Grader
Technion- Israel Institute of Technology ISRAEL Professors Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering
The Prize for
researcher recruitment
Dr. Yair Carmon
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Dr. Yaniv Romano
Stanford University, USA
Postdoctoral fellow, Statistics
Dr. Ido Hadar
Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) USA,
Postdoctoral Scholar Department of Chemistry
Dr. Mor Nitzan
Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Omri Weinstein
Currently at Columbia University. Assistant Professor, Computer Science
2019 Winners
(The Prize for Groundbreaking Research in The Areas of Fuel Alternatives and Smart Mobility)
