Awards
AppEEL awards four prizes sponsored by Springer, Springer Nature and by the Book Series Interdisciplinary Evolution Research.
AppEEL, the Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab of the Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon offers three awards to participants in the Protolang 6 conference and one award to participants in the Satellite event Workshop on Language throughout the ages that are able to demonstrate exemplar roles in bridging disciplinary boundaries between philosophy of science, the life sciences, the exact and technological sciences, and the sociocultural and linguistic sciences.
The awards for the Protolang 6 event include the
3) Most Helpful Volunteer Award,
2) Most Promising Pre-Doctoral Researcher Award, and the
1) Best Presentation given by a Post-Doctoral Researcher Award.
The award for the Satellite event Workshop on Language throughout the ages includes the Best Presentation given by a Post-Doctoral Researcher.
The awards are generously sponsored by Springer, Springer Nature and the Book Series Interdisciplinary Evolution Research.
AppEEL Award for the Best Presentation given by a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Protolang goes to Antonella Tramacere
Sponsored by Springer Nature
The 2019 prize is a 180 euro Book Voucher generously offered by Springer Nature and the prize goes to Antonella Tramacere for, together with Natalie Uomini, co-organizing the Symposium of the Language Origin Society on The grammar of tool use: Converging processes in grammar and compositional tool manufacture, and for co-presenting a talk on Hypotheses of language and tool origins.
Antonella Tramacere is a researcher at the Department for Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany. She was previously affiliated with the Lichtenberg Kolleg, and the German Primate Center in Göttingen (Germany). Her research is highly integrative and interdisciplinary, and develops through close collaboration with the Department of Neuroscience at the Parma University in Italy, the Lab of Symbolic Cognitive Development at the Riken Brain Institute in Japan, and the Center for Mind, Behavior and Cognitive Evolution of Bochum University in Germany. She analyses the development of the Mirror Neuron System in order to address the role of neural phenomena in cultural traits, like imitation, language and self-awareness, with the goal to build models of the bidirectional relationship between cultural and biological mechanisms.
AppEEL Award for the Most Promising Pre-Doctoral Researcher at Protolang goes to Genta Toya
Sponsored by the Springer Nature Book Series Interdisciplinary Evolution Research
The 2019 prize is a hard copy of the book Evolution of Primate Social Cognition, edited by Laura Desiree di Paolo, Fabio Di Vincenzo, and Francesca De Petrillo and the prize goes to Genta Toya for, together with Rie Asano and Takashi Hashimoto presenting a talk in the Theme Session on Compositionality and Syntax, on Evolution of recursive combination of action representations by rewarding novel tool-making; and for together with Yasuaki Kai, Takashi Hashimoto and Antonio Benítez-Burraco, presenting a talk in the Theme Session on Trees, networks, agent and population dynamics, on Modeling self-domestication and its impact on language evolution: playing with ‘play’.
Genta Toya is a Ph.D student at the Hashimoto laboratory in System Knowledge Group and the School of Knowledge Science at the Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) in Japan. With a background in Electronic Engineering, he studies the evolution of hierarchical structures in language for which he designs agent-based simulations. Genta is the recipient of the Outstanding Performance Award given by the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2015; and the Outstanding Student Award given by the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Hokuriku Branch in 2014.
AppEEL Award for the Most Helpful Volunteer goes to Ana Sofia Souto, Felipe Martins, Hendrik Pigola, Inês Domingos, Inês Mendes, Johanna Fürstenau, José Pedro Correia, Maria Coelho, Marta Facoetti, Paula Baer, Sinoël Dohlen, Sydelle De Souza, Tiago Ferreira, and Ekanem Ebinne
Sponsored by the Springer Nature Book Series Interdisciplinary Evolution Research
The 2019 prize is an e-copy of the book Evolution of Primate Social Cognition, edited by Laura Desiree di Paolo, Fabio Di Vincenzo, and Francesca De Petrillo and the prize goes to Ana Sofia Souto, Felipe Martins, Hendrik Pigola, Inês Domingos, Inês Mendes, Johanna Fürstenau, José Pedro Correia, Maria Coelho, Marta Facoetti, Paula Baer, Sinoël Dohlen, Sydelle De Souza, Tiago Ferreira, Ekanem Ebinne for their kind help offered during the conference days.
Ana Sofia Souto is a student in Portuguese Studies at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Felipe Martins and Maria Coelho are students at the Psychology Department of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon. Hendrik Pigola, Johanna Fürstenau, Paula Baer, and Sinoël Dohlen are students in Philology at the Linguistics department of the University of Leipzig, Germany. Inês Domingos is a student in Biology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Inês Mendes is a student at The Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon (IGOT). José Pedro Correia is a PhD Student at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Porto, Portugal. Marta Facoetti is a collaborator of AppEEL. Sydelle De Souza is a student in the Linguistics Department at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. Tiago Ferreira is a student at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Ekanem Ebinne is a PhD student in Musicology at the Laboratory of Music and Communication in Infancy (LAMCI) and the Center for Studies in Sociology and Musical Aesthetics (CESEM) at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal.
AppEEL Award for the Best Presentation given by a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Satellite event Workshop on Language Throughout the Ages goes to Bárbara Jiménez-Pazos
Sponsored by Springer
The prize, the Springer book Special Sciences and the Unity of Science, edited by Olga Pombo, Juan Manuel Torres, John Symons, and Sahid Rahman for the book series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, goes to Bárbara Jiménez-Pazos for her talk titled Reflections on Darwinian Disenchantment.
Bárbara Jiménez-Pazos is a Post-Doctoral researcher funded by the Basque Government working under the supervision of Gregory Radick at the School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science of the University of Leeds, and Arantza Etxeberria at the IAS-Research Center for Life, Mind & Society of the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of the Basque Country. In her work, she uses Computer-Based Lexical Analyses to investigate vocabulary change in all 6 editions of Charles Darwin's Origin Of Species, and she investigates how worldviews underlie descriptions of nature in English Romantic Poetry.
