FQXi is now offering a new award, for Most Courageous Postdoc! The $1,000 award was developed with the help of Sabine Hossenfelder, Assistant Professor at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, FQXi Member and essay contest winner. (Sabine herself may have been a prime candidate for the award just a few years ago.)
From the prize announcement: "The main criterion for the prize is the courage and effort a postdoc has put into his or her research on foundational questions in physics and cosmology...The candidate must have a PhD in physics or related field, but not have reached faculty level [and] must have demonstrated extraordinary passion for unraveling the secrets of the universe and big unsolved problems in FQXi's focus areas."
Nomination consists primarily of a short statement of why you think the nominee is most deserving of the prize. To read more about the qualifications, and to submit a nomination, visit this page.