Nominations are still open for the 2026 ICVS Early Career Investigator Award. We have extended to deadline to 23rd January.
This new award, presented by the ICVS, recognizes outstanding achievement in colour vision research by an early-career researcher, showing exceptional promise and meaningful contributions to the colour vision research community.
The award will be conferred at the ICVS biennial Symposium. Eligible candidates must be within 10 years of their PhD award (exceptions may be granted if well justified and strongly supported). Nominees need not have been active in ICVS affairs but should be willing and able to participate in the Symposium.To nominate a candidate, please submit a letter of nomination and the candidate’s curriculum vitae.
The 2026 Award will be presented at the ICVS Symposium in Brighton, UK. Nominations must be submitted by 23 January 2026 via email to the Chair of the Award Committee, Anya Hurlbert (
The 2026 Verriest Medal will be awarded to Professor Keiji Uchikawa at the 28th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) to be held at the University of Sussex in Brighton in 2026. The award was established in 1991 in memory of the founder of the Society, Dr. Guy Verriest, and honours outstanding contributions in the field of colour vision.
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Karl Gegenfurtner
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Professor Gegenfurtner’s career in colour vision began with doctoral studies at New York University under the supervision of George Sperling and John Krauskopf, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at NYU with Anthony Movshon, and then by appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen and Otto-von- Guericke University, Magdeburg. He took up his present position as Professor of Psychology at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen in 2001. His research contributions have ranged from low-level chromatic adaptation and discrimination, through colour constancy and higherlevel cortical mechanisms, all the way to cognitive aspects such as colour memory, colour categorization, and colour in scene and object recognition. His work is centred on psychophysics, but he has embraced methodological innovations, using the power of deep neural networks and the immersive capabilities of virtual reality. His influential review articles have brought developments in colour vision to the larger community, and his laboratory in Giessen has provided a welcoming and productive environment for colour vision scientists from across the world. |
