Ovide Arino Outreach Award (OAOA)

This joint ESMTB and SFBT (Société Francophone de Biologie Théorique) prize is awarded periodically to a young researcher from a Southern country, on the basis of a remarkable contribution in mathematical or theoretical biology, carried out in collaboration with a European or French-speaking country.

Eligibility criteria:

• Be a PhD student or a young researcher (PhD defended less than 10 years before the closing date of the call)
• Work in an eligible Southern country at the application date (List of eligible countries)
• Justify a recent contribution in mathematical or theoretical biology through one paper published less than 4 years before the closing date of the call (the “first published” date indicated online prevails), with at least one co-author affiliated to a European or French-speaking country other than the candidate affiliation country on the paper. The affiliations should appear on the published paper.

The award includes: a 1000 € prize, and 1-year membership to ESMTB and to SFBT.

The prize awarding committee includes: Julien Arino, Slimane Ben Miled, Rafael Bravo de la Parra, Angélique Stéphanou, Suzanne Touzeau.

The call for nominations is currently closed. Find here the previous call. 

Winners of the Ovide Arino prize

• 2023: Hari Kishore  (PhD from the Center for BioSystems Science and Engineering (BSSE) at Indian Institute of Science of Bangalore). Reference: Kishore Hari et al., Identifying inhibitors of epitelial-mesenchymal plasticity using a network topology-based approach. npj Systems Biology and Applications, 2020, 6(1):15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41540-020-0132-1

• 2021: Israël Tankam Chedjou (PhD from University of Yaoundé in 2020). Online seminar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUo98pt1vSo

Ovide Arino (1947-2003)

Ovide Arino was a mathematician working on delay differential equations. His field of application was population dynamics. He was a prolific author, who published more than 150 articles during his lifetime. He was especially active in terms of student supervision. Over the course of his career, he directed about 60 theses and devoted much time to his students. Many came from Morocco and Algeria. He has thus played a key role in the development of biomathematics in North Africa. Many of his students are now professors and still maintain international collaborations.

More information is available at:  http://euromedbiomath.ovide.free.fr/

The SFBT paid him tribute in 2004 by awarding the Ovide Arino Award at its first international conference in Morocco. Through this award, the ESMTB and SFBT join together to maintain his heritage and keep his memory alive.