Sabine Begall (2014 Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner for documenting that when dogs defecate and urinate, they prefer to align their body axis with Earth’s north-south geomagnetic field lines)
Ida Sabelis (2000 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize winner for the report “Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Male and Female Genitals During Coitus and Female Sexual Arousal”.)
Kees Moeliker (2003 Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner for documenting homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck)
Nicolas Wöhrl and Reinhard Remford (performing physicists)
April 21, 2026, Tuesday — Lund University (in cooperation with the Young Academy of Sweden), SWEDEN. Details TBA.
April 22, 2026, Wednesday — Young Academy of Sweden, Malmö, SWEDEN.
April 23, 2026, Thursday, 6:00 pm — EPFL, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND. TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS will become available online on April 14. With Marc Abrahams and
Mariska Kret (2014 Ig Nobel Applied Cardiology Prize winner for seeking and finding evidence that when new romantic partners meet for the first time, and feel attracted to each other, their heart rates synchronize)
Marcin Zajenkowski (2025 Ig Nobel Psychology Prize winner for investigating what happens when you tell narcissists — or anyone else — that they are intelligent.)
April 28, 2026, Tuesday — Athens, GREECE. Details TBA.
June 11, 2026, Thursday — Leiden, THE NETHERLANDS. Details TBA.
May 12, 2026, Tuesday
TICKETS GO ON SALE to attend the 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony (the ceremony will happen on September 3, in Zurich) — Details TBA on http://www.improbable.com
June 5, 2026, Friday
Dead Duck Day Celebration — Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS. Details TBA.
September 3, 2026, Thursday, evening
THE 36th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY, Zurich, SWITZERLAND — Ig Nobel Prizes will be awarded to ten new winners. Each has done something so surprising that it makes people LAUGH, then THINK. Details TBA.
September 4, 2026, Friday
Ig Nobel Face-to-Face, Zurich, SWITZERLAND — The new Ig Nobel Prize winners ask each other about their work, and take questions from the audience. Details TBA.
September 24, 2026, Thursday, evening
BOST-IG — a celebration of past and new Ig Nobel Prizes, the songs of Tom Lehrer, the Museum of Bad Art, and American science — Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA — Details TBA.
