Call for Nominations

Deadline: 28 FEB 2026

We welcome nominations for the award of IAPR Fellow.

Anyone who has been a member of an IAPR member society for at least 5 years and has sufficient scientific contribution as well as significant Contribution/Service/Involvement towards IAPR is eligible to be nominated. Exception: Current members of the Executive Committee and of the Fellow Committee are not eligible nominees.

PLEASE NOTE: It is VERY IMPORTANT to review the 2026 IAPR Fellow Nomination Instructions since there have been significant revisions. In particular, Nominees must have been a member in an IAPR Member Society (and therefore a member of IAPR) for at least 5 years. 

The next IAPR Fellow Awards will be presented at ICPR 2026, to be held August 17-21, 2026, in Lyon, France.

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Full 2026 Nomination Instructions can be found here (PDF)

To initiate a nomination, a nominator must complete and submit an IAPR Fellow Nomination Form. Any member of an IAPR Member Society can serve as nominator, except for the nominee themself and the current members of the Executive and Fellow Committees.

Each nomination must be endorsed by at least one submitted Endorsement Form, either from a member of an IAPR Member Society (different from the nominator) or from an IAPR Fellow.

All documents (Nomination and Endorsement forms) must be submitted electronically and will be acknowledged by an email. Changes will be accepted up until the final deadline. To make changes, please re-enter all information and submit a new, complete form. Only the last form received will be used in the evaluation process.

Submission problems should be reported to the IAPR Webmaster, cc’ing the Fellow Committee Chair, Prof. Umapada Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India:

To: webmaster@iapr.org
Subject: Submission problem — IAPR Fellowship 2026
CC: fc-chair@iapr.org

Click here for a list of members of the IAPR Fellow Committee.

IAPR appreciates your efforts to support our fellowship program!

IAPR Fellow Nomination Form (Google Form)

IAPR Fellow Endorsement Form (Google Form)