Awards, Honours and Prizes for Researchers and PhD Candidates
JUN 2025
Comitato Salute FEEM Research Award: "Health in the context of the Energy Transition" - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
Leonardo Brizi
Research awards on topics related to the protection and promotion of health in relation to industrial activities in the energy sector and corporate health and welfare in the context of the Energy Transition. In particular, this award is dedicated to professionals and/or researchers under the age of 40 who have demonstrated particular expertise in the study of health issues related to the area of Health and Socio-Health Models and Systems.
JUN 2025
Comitato Salute FEEM Research Award: "Health in the context of the Energy Transition" - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
Carlo Golini
Research awards on topics related to the protection and promotion of health in relation to industrial activities in the energy sector and corporate health and welfare in the context of the Energy Transition. In particular, this award is dedicated to professionals and/or researchers under the age of 40 who have demonstrated particular expertise in the study of health issues related to the area of Health and Socio-Health Models and Systems.
MAR 2025
Training course for young female graduates "Futuro al Femminile: Women in Leadership" - Soroptimist International D'Italia - Club di Bologna
Lia Giulia D’Amico
The award is given to young female graduates to enable them to participate in the training course ‘Futuro al Femminile: Women in Leadership’ (Future for Women: Women in Leadership). The aim of the course is to enhance and promote the empowerment of young women, providing them with the skills and tools to develop their leadership abilities. It also offers food for thought to help them understand and interpret the current socio-political and economic context, focusing on the themes of inclusion and a leadership model in which ethics and social responsibility prevail. The aim is therefore to enhance skills, promote self-confidence, but also to raise awareness among participants of the importance of gender diversity in the leadership model, encouraging a more balanced and inclusive vision, while promoting interaction and the exchange of experiences.
MAR 2025
Three-Minute-Thesis Competition (Unibo Edition)
Carlo Golini
The Three-Minute-Thesis Competition is an academic competition that challenges PhD students to describe their research in English to a general audience in less than three minutes. The 3MT celebrates the discoveries made by PhD students and encourages them to communicate the importance of their research to a wide audience in a popular and general manner. The winner from each university has the opportunity to compete with other European universities in a later stage of the competition.
OCT 2024
GENTEC-EO 2024 Laser Lab Award - GENTEC Electro-Optics (Canada)
Gabriele Umbriaco
The 2024 GENTEC-EO Laser Lab Award provides 12 academic institutions with industrial-grade equipment for their study programs. GENTEC Electro-Optics is a Canadian company specializing in the measurement and analysis of laser beams and terahertz sources. For 50 years, it has been synonymous with research and innovation, developing and providing cutting-edge technology for the laser market. This award underscores the company's commitment to providing students with high-quality measurement instruments, fostering hands-on learning experiences that meet industry standards. Among numerous applications received globally, the University of Bologna was selected as one of the 12 winners for demonstrating the greatest potential impact on the educational process. As part of this recognition, the Department received a PRONTO-SI free of charge: a compact, NIST-calibrated laser power detector valued at €1300.
AUG 2024
Gold prize for the Lightning Talk at the Gerischer Electrochemistry Symposium - Colorado State University
Marco Salvi
Dr. Salvi's presentation was the second most voted presentation in the Lightning Talk session of the Gerischer Electrochemistry Symposium, held in Fort Collins, Colorado, in August 2024. During this session, speakers had to present an element of their research in just three minutes.
JUL 2024
Bourses du Gouvernement Français 2024 - Campus France- Ambasciata Francese in Italia
Francesco Carenini
Winner of the French government research grant for the period 2024–2025, supporting a three-month scientific stay at Paris Cité University, in the Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory (APC). During this period, I worked on hadronic models of active galactic nuclei, with the aim of predicting the astrophysical neutrino spectra expected from this type of source. As a member of the KM3NeT Collaboration, I also collaborated with the KM3NeT group at APC to study the prospects for detecting such signals with the KM3NeT/ARCA telescope.
JUL 2024
ALICE Thesis Award - ALICE Collaboration (CERN)
Francesca Ercolessi
Since 2008, ALICE Thesis awards are given once a year for the most outstanding PhD thesis by members of the ALICE Collaboration in the field of physics and instrumentation. The awards celebrate the excellence of young researchers at ALICE and the importance of their work in the physics world. The selection is made by a committee whose Chair is appointed by the ALICE Spokesperson, in consultation with the Chair of the Collaboration Board.
JUN 2024
Euclid Consortium STAR Prize - Student Category - Euclid Consortium
Giorgio Francesco Lesci
For making significant contributions to Euclid studies of clusters of galaxies, integrating cluster likelihoods into CLOE, and helping develop LE3 code which derives weak-lensing mass estimates of galaxy clusters.
JUN 2024
Young Scientists Award - Association Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics
Sofia Strazzi
Young Scientists Award at the International Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors, by the Frontier Physics for Frontier Detectors Association “for a brilliant contribution in the development of detection techniques in High Energy Physics.
JAN 2024
Premio Livio Gratton XVI edizione - Associazione Eta Carinae
Sofia Contarini
The Livio Gratton Award is given every two years to the best doctoral thesis in astronomy or astrophysics carried out at an Italian research institute. Established in memory of Livio Gratton, it is promoted by the Eta Carinae Association with the support of the Tuscolana Astronomy Association, the Municipality of Frascati, INAF and the Gratton family.
NOV 2023
LIONS AWARD Scientific Research and Technological Innovation 2023 - Lions Club Bologna
Luca Bondi
Award given by the Bologna Lions Club to the best doctoral theses at the University of Bologna to promote commitment to scientific research and innovation. Named after Prof. Claudio Bonivento, it rewards work of high scientific value, originality, practical application and social impact, selected from among the doctoral students of the Alma Mater Studiorum.
NOV 2023
LIONS AWARD Scientific Research and Technological Innovation 2023 - Lions Club Bologna
Sofia Contarini
Award given by the Bologna Lions Club to the best doctoral theses at the University of Bologna to promote commitment to scientific research and innovation. Named after Prof. Claudio Bonivento, it rewards work of high scientific value, originality, practical application and social impact, selected from among the doctoral students of the Alma Mater Studiorum.
OCT 2023
Best Oral Presentation Award - Materials for Sustainable Development (MATSUS) Conference
Filippo Bonafè
Award for best oral presentation with the talk “AC Amplification Gain in Organic Electrochemical Transistors (OECTs) for Impedance-based Single Cell Sensors”.
JUN 2023
Best Oral Presentation Award - Cambridge Bioelectronic Symposium
Filippo Bonafè
Award for the best oral presentation entitled: Spectroscopy and AFM microscopy of electroswell: insights into electrochemical implementation in conductive polymers for bioelectronics.
JAN 2022
Gratton prize (XV edition)
Gratton family and Associazione Eta Carinae
Cecilia Bacchini
A biannual prize awarded by an international committee for the best PhD thesis in Astrophysics carried out in an Italian university. The prize is organised and sponsored by the Gratton family and Associazione Eta Carinae, together with Associazione tuscolana di astronomia, Frascati municipality, and the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF). The 2022 prize was awarded to the thesis “Star formation law and gas turbulence in nearby galaxies” by Cecilia Bacchini, supervised by prof. Filippo Fraternali (University of Groningen) and prof. Carlo Nipoti (University of Bologna).
MAY 2021
2020 IAU PhD Prize
International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Cecilia Bacchini
The prize is awarded annually by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in recognition of the most remarkable PhD thesis in Astrophysics done in the previous year. The thesis “Star formation law and gas turbulence in nearby galaxies” by Cecilia Bacchini, supervised by prof. Filippo Fraternali (University of Groningen) and prof. Carlo Nipoti (University of Bologna), was awarded the prize in the Division “Interstellar matter and local Universe”.
FEB 2021
Three-Minute-Thesis Competition (Unibo Edition)
Luca Bondi
The Three-Minute-Thesis Competition is an academic competition that challenges PhD students to describe their research in English to a general audience in less than three minutes. The 3MT celebrates the discoveries made by PhD students and encourages them to communicate the importance of their research to a wide audience in a popular and general manner. The winner from each university has the opportunity to compete with other European universities in a later stage of the competition.
NOV 2018
The AGLC 'Licio Cernobori' Award
Licio Cernobori Association for Geophysics; EAGE-SEG; Italian Geophysical Union
Massimo Nespoli
The Licio Cernobori Association for Geophysics – AGLC was founded on 30 October 2000 to remember Licio Cernobori, a geophysicist who died prematurely, who ranged from seismology to seismic studies, always keeping his enthusiasm for research intact and involving his younger colleagues. The award assigns three prizes of €700 each for as many GNGTS Themes (Geodynamics, Seismic characterization of the territory, Applied Geophysics), in which young researchers aged no more than 35 years can compete and present as first authors and speakers a scientific work in theoretical and applied geophysics at the GNGTS Conference.