Awards, Honours and Prizes for Researchers and PhD Candidates

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).

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”.

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.