Travel Award
Nanomaterials Travel Award was launched in 2016, and it is granted every year to encourage junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology, thus helping to increase their influence. The application period is open from February to October, and the winners are announced by the end of December each year.
The Prize:
–CHF 800;
–A certificate.
Number of Winners: 2
Nanomaterials Travel Award
Winner announcement: 31 December 2024
Eligibility and Requirements
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students, research fellows;– Plans to attend an international conference in 2025. (oral presentation or poster).
List of Documents for Application
– Information about the conference 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 at the institution.
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Yue Zhang
University of British Columbia, Canada
Sonia Freddi
Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IFN-CNR), Italy
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Sotirios Baskoutas
Chairman
University of Patras
Dr. Xuchun Gui
Sun Yat-sen University
Prof. Dr. Nelson Marmiroli
University of Parma
Dr. Jung Woo Lee
Pusan National University
Prof. Alexander Kotlyar
Dr. Marco P. Monopoli
RCSI
Winner
Javier Bonet-Aleta
University of Zaragoza, Spain
Abdulghani Ismail
The University of Manchester, UK
Award Committee
Dr. Vlad Stolojan
University of Surrey
Dr. Gyula Eres
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Béla Pécz
Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Energy Research Centre, EK MFA
Dr. Jian Liu
University of British Columbia
Dr. Sergey Istomin
Moscow State University
Winner
Arun Kumar
CNR—Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems, Italy
Elena Blundo
Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Award Committee
Dr. Shirley Chiang
Chairman
University of California Davis
Dr. Daniele Fazzi
University of Cologne
Prof. Dr. Sónia AC Carabineiro
NOVA University of Lisbon, Faculty of Science and Technology
Prof. Dr. Maria Cristina Bonferoni
Prof. Dr. Goran Drazic
National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ms. Cassie Zhang
mdpi
Prof. Dr. Timothy Tan
Nanyang Technological University
Prof. Letian Dou
Purdue University
Prof. Diego Cazorla-Amorós
Universidad de Alicante
Dr. Alicia Rodríguez-Gascón
Winner
Aleksandrs Leitis
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Ekaterina Kolesova
ITMO University, Russia
Award Committee
Dr. Shirley Chiang
Chairman
University of California Davis
Dr. Candido Pirri
Politecnico di Torino
Dr. Antonios Kelarakis
Prof. Julian Gonzalez
Dr. Linda J. Johnston
Prof. Krasimir Vasilev
Prof. Ion Mihailescu
INFLPR, Magurele
Prof. Rajender S. Varma
US Environmental Protection Agency
Winner
Igor A. Khramtsov
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia
Award Committee
Dr. Shirley Chiang
Chairman
University of California Davis
Dr. Filippo Giubileo
CNR-SPIN
Prof. Mikhael BECHELANY
CNRS/IEM
Prof. Antonio Di Bartolomeo
Salerno University
Winner
Steven Swasey
The University of California Santa Barbara, USA
