The Janus Kulikowski Award

This award was established to recognise the achievements of Professor Janus Kulikowski, who spent much of his career at The University of Manchester. Each spring, the Manchester Vision Network invites nominations for the award.

The award is open to postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and research fellows.

The research output will usually be in the form of a published academic paper, but other equivalent outputs will be considered.

The Award made each year is based on outputs published in the previous calendar year.

How to make a nomination

Nominations for the award can be made by the researcher themselves, or by a colleague on their behalf.

The nomination should include a copy of the paper or other output, plus:

• a short commentary describing the particular contribution of the nominee;
• the reasons for the output being particularly significant;
• where the work fits within the career progression of the nominee.

The winner will be notified in early summer of each year and is required to deliver a keynote lecture at that year’s annual meeting.

About Professor Janus Kulikowski

The annual award is named in honour of Professor Janus Kulikowski, an internationally renowned vision scientist who spent much of his career working in Manchester, beginning in what was then the Department of Ophthalmic Optics at UMIST, through to his continuing research activity, despite his ‘retirement’ in 2002, in the Division of Pharmacy and Optometry.

Professor Kulikowski helped to put Manchester vision sciences on the world stage. He is most famous for contributing to the understanding of how the brain analyses spatial information. He used animal models, human electrophysiology, and psychophysics to explain how the retina packages visual information for analysis by different regions of the visual brain.

He has published more than 250 papers, 17 of which have over 100 citations and in total have accumulated over 7,000 citations.

Learn more about Professor Kulikowski:

• ResearchGate
• Google Scholar

Previous winners of the Janus Kulikowski award

• 2023 – Patrycja Orlowska-Feuer
• 2022 – Beatriz Bano Otalora
• 2021 – Riccardo Storchi
• 2020 – Annette Allen