Prestigious Cozzarelli Prize 2025 awarded to Jordi Bascompte
Jordi Bascompte has been awarded the 2025 PNAS Cozzarelli Prize, an award that recognizes outstanding contributions to the scientific disciplines represented by the USA National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
Papers were chosen from more than 3,600 research articles that appeared in the journal of the Academy (PNAS) in 2025, and represent the six broadly defined classes under which the NAS is organized. Jordi’s paper, selected from the category of Biological Sciences, is the following:
Enrique M. Muro, Fernando Ballesteros, Bartolo Luque, and Jordi Bascompte (2025). The emergence of eukaryotes as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition. PNAS, 122 (13) e2422968122.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422968122
The Cozzarelli Prize was established in 2005 as the Paper of the Year Prize and was renamed in 2007 to honor late PNAS Editor-in-Chief Nicholas R. Cozzarelli. The 2025 awardees will be recognized at an awards ceremony during the NAS Annual Meeting in April 2026.
For more details see: https://www.nasonline.org/news/pnas-2025-cozzarelli-recipients/
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