Travel Award
Materials Travel Award was launched in 2018, and it is presented every year to encourage junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in the field of materials science and engineering, which helps to increase their influence. The application will be open from April to October, and winners will be announced by the end of December every year.
The Prize:
– CHF 800;
– A certificate.
Number of Winners: 2
Materials Travel Award
Winner announcement: 31 December 2024
Eligibility and Requirements
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students and research fellows;– Plans to attend an international conference in 2025 (oral presentation or poster).
List of Documents for Application
– Information of the conference that the applicant is planning to attend, and the abstract that will be submitted;– Curriculum Vitae and list of publications;
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words);
– Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status.
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Valeryia Kasneryk
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany
Ana Isabel Furtado
NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
Award Committee
Dr. Maryam Tabrizian
Chairman
McGill University
Prof. Federico Bella
Politecnico di Torino
Dr. Csaba Balázsi
Dr. Mario Culebras
University of Valencia
Dr. Carles Corbella Roca
Prof. Dr. Yuri Ribakov
Ariel University
Winner
Farah Daou
Università del Piemonte Orientale (UPO), Italy
Barbara Tomadoni
University of Sevilla, Spain
Award Committee
Dr. Maryam Tabrizian
Chairman
McGill University
Prof. Yanping Lian
Dr. Eri Yoshida
Toyohashi University of Technology
Dr. Ingo Dierking
University of Manchester
Prof. Dr. Rui Miranda Guedes
Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto
Winner
Danila Merino
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Elena Blundo
Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Award Committee
Dr. Materials Editorial Office
Chairman
MDPI AG, St. Alban-Anlage 66, 4052 Basel, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Valery Tuchin
Saratov State University
Winner
Mattia Biesuz
University of Trento, Italy
Giulia Fredi
University of Trento, Italy
Award Committee
Dr. Maryam Tabrizian
Chairman
McGill University
Dr. Cristina Della Pina
Università degli Studi di Milano
Dr. Ismet Baran
University of Twente
Prof. Dr. Andrei Potapov
Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
Prof. Łukasz Sadowski
Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Nicoleta Ilie
University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Winner
Ana Carolina Constâncio Trindade
Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil
Award Committee
Dr. Maryam Tabrizian
Chairman
McGill University
Prof. Minna Hakkarainen
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Dr. Yury A. Skorik
Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Prof. Nikolaos Silikas
University of Manchester
Dr. Sergei Kulinich
Tokai University
Prof. Antonio Gil
Public University of Navarra
Winner
Barbora Balonova
University of New Brunswick, Canada
Katerina Christofidou
University of Cambridge, UK
Award Committee
Dr. Maryam Tabrizian
Chairman
McGill University
Prof. Klara Hernadi
Prof. Geminiano Mancusi
University of Salerno
Dr. Douglas Ivey
Dr. Marco Salerno
Department of Physics - University of Genoa
Dr. Lioz Etgar
Hebrew University
Prof. Dr. Walter Caseri
ETH Zürich
Prof. Mark Whittaker
Dr. Thomas Fiedler
The University of Newcastle
Prof. Franz E. Weber
University Zurich/ZZM
Winner
Ankit Gupta
Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Germany
Carlo Massaroni
Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
