Major achievements
This document contains information about how you should outline your major achievements. It follows closely the new CV format of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Describe in your own words 1-3 of your major achievements with selected works across your whole career. Each achievement should be described with a maximum of 300 words.
Your achievements should serve as a general description of your most important scientific contribution. Don’t refer to citation metrics, journal rankings, institutional rankings, your h-index, or any other proxy indicators of scientific quality.
To describe your achievements, you may refer to:
your specific role, contribution or expertise
your work or finding(s) and their impact on science or society
your application of skills and new methods to foster innovation, new ideas and projects
your approach to teaching, mentoring, leadership, connecting researchers and engaging with the public or politics.
Achievements can include your contribution to:
Generation of knowledge, innovation and advancement of research: Selected research outputs, such as articles and books, educational and policy publications, code, software and data sets and research findings you have patented.
Development and support of peers and the wider research community: Institutional duties, teaching activities and mentoring, contribution to conferences, scientific societies and editorial work, and expertise you provided to collaborations.
Broader society: Open- and citizen science initiatives, outreach activities, engagement with industry and the private and public sector and efforts to advise policymakers.
Choose up to 5 works (in total) that substantiate your achievements:
Cite only types of work supported by ORCID. Personal websites, google scholar profile, etc. are not allowed.
Only refer to works you added a citation for, and refrain from citing the same work multiple times.
Use square brackets (e.g. [1] or [2-4]) to reference your added works in the achievement description.
Check that your works are cited correctly and their references are complete (author names, title, etc.).
Provide a direct link to each work (e.g. DOI) and make sure that they are publicly accessible for scientific evaluation.
Example: a career achievement of Jacob Bernoulli
Career Achievement: Discovery and Application of the Law of Large Numbers
In the late 17th century, I made foundational contributions to the development of probability theory and statistics. My most significant achievement, the formulation of the Law of Large Numbers, has been a cornerstone in probability theory. This law demonstrates that as the size of a sample increases, the sample mean will get closer to the expected value, providing a solid foundation for the predictability of outcomes over large numbers of trials.
This discovery was detailed in my work [1] published in 1713. It laid the groundwork for the theory of probability and had profound implications for various fields such as finance, insurance, and social sciences, where it helped to understand and manage the uncertainty and variation inherent in complex systems.
The Law of Large Numbers has facilitated significant advancements in statistical methods and their applications, impacting decision-making processes in both the public and private sectors. My exploration into the mathematics of gambling and the formalization of theoretical probability has enabled subsequent generations of mathematicians and scientists to quantify risk, make predictions with greater accuracy, and develop statistical theories that underpin modern economics, psychology, and natural sciences.
Through this work, I contributed to the transformation of probability from a game of chance to a rigorous and predictive science that empowers researchers and professionals across disciplines to make informed decisions based on empirical data.
The implications of my findings extend far beyond the theoretical, influencing practical applications in survey sampling, quality control, and risk assessment. My commitment to Understanding the fundamentals of probability has fostered a legacy of inquiry and discovery, encouraging future scholars to expand the boundaries of mathematical and statistical knowledge.
References
[1] Bernoulli, Jakob. Jacobi Bernoulli profess. basil. & utriusque societ. ... Ars conjectandi, opus posthumum. Basileæ: Impensis Thurnisiorum, Fratrum, doi: https://doi.org/10.5479/sil.262971.39088000323931