The Jesper Hoffmeyer Award for Promising Young Scholars in Biosemiotics rewards the ingenuity of young researchers in biosemiotics who follow along the path laid by Jesper Hoffmeyer. It is as much a tribute to Jesper’s work as it is to the contributions that build on it.
2025
The 2025 Hoffmeyer award was granted to Brian Khumalo and Devon Schiller for their presentation on the MASKED project at the Gatherings in Biosemiotics 2025 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Previous winners
2022
The 2022 Hoffmeyer award was granted to Rebeca Méndez and Òscar Castro for their presentation “I Contain Multitudes”: Biosemiotic notes on the holobiont and individuation in microbiome studies at the Gatherings in Biosemiotics 2022 in Olomouc, Czech Republic.