das of today June 12th six other names of STEM researchers are added to the list. In total 112 women received the recognition For women and science of the L’Oréal prize – Unesco. To deliver it today in Milan, at the Museum of Science and Technology the jury chaired by Professor Lucia Votano affiliated research executive at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics. The six winning profiles of Stem researchers were selected from an audience of 200 candidates.
How much is the L’Oréal-Unesco prize worth?
They have been assigned six scholarships of 20,000 euros eachto six STEM researchers under 35. The grant was awarded on the basis of the recognized excellence of their project in all fields of science and technology. Two of them will return after having worked in foreign Institutes. In other words, they are “brain drains” who finally see a chance to work in Italy. Stem researchers around the world funded over the course of 25 years there have been over 4100 in 110 countries.
Who are the awarded STEM researchers
The Stem researchers winners of the L’Oréal.–Unesco scholarships: alice Borghese, Gloria Delfanti, Francesca Berti, Alessandra Biancolillo and Martina Fracchia. Arianna Renzini is remotely on Biancolillo’s smartphone.
They are between 31 and 34 years old, all graduated with honors, and have already achieved awards. I am Francesca Berti, Alessandra Biancolillo, Alice Borghese, Gloria Delfanti, Martina Fracchia, Arianna Renzini. Here are their profiles.
1- New stents implantable in the human body
Frances Berti, 31 years old, she graduated with honors from the Politecnico di Milano in 2016 in Biomedical Engineering, specialization in Biomechanics and Biomaterials. In 2019 you obtained your PhD in Materials Engineering, during which worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, She was the holder of a six-month fellowship to study the problems of breaking cardiovascular devices. His doctoral thesis was awarded in 2020 by the National Bioengineering Group. Today he is a research fellow at the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “G. Natta ”of the Politecnico di Milano, even if he continues to collaborate scientifically with MIT and other international universities and research centers.. It deals with stents, i.e. tubular metal grids used for the treatment of pathologies involving the occlusion of blood vessels. The stents ensure proper blood supply to the system. his research aims to identify the best methodologies for using 3D printing (this is also connected when speaking of additive manufacturing, ed) to make implantable stents.
His project is about Innovative design of additively manufactured stents for congenital heart disease
2- Ancient grains: a challenge for the agriculture of the future
Alessandra Biancollillo, 34 years old, graduated in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (UNIROMA1) in 2013 and, in 2016, obtained her PhD in Spectroscopy and Chemometrics (research doctorate in Spectroscopy and Chemometrics) at the University of Copenhagen. Here you worked on a research project between this university and the Norwegian research institute on food and fish farming (NOFIMA). In the following years, she was a post-doc at UNIROMA1 and the French research institute for agriculture (IRSTEA) in Montpellier. Currently, is a research fellow at the University of L’Aquila. In more recent years, you have concentrated on the analysis of typical food products, to understand their peculiar characteristics. The target? Ensure their safety and the enhancement of the territories from which they come. in particular the ancient grains which today arouse great interest for their ability to grow even in hostile environments.
The ability to resist the threat of climate change is investigated in “resilient” grains.
Work on the project RESILIENTGRAIN Project: Development of advanced and non-destructive analytical methods for the characterization and traceability of ancient grains and evolutionary populations of grains and their derivative products
3- The study of the most “unpredictable” stars
Alice Borghese
Alice Borghese, 33, graduated with honors in Physics from the University of Padua in 2014. He completed his PhD in 2018 at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy in Amsterdam. During the PhD it comes close to X-ray astronomy and the study of neutron stars the magne-tar (contraction of magnetic-star) the most active and variable neutron stars.. Currently, she is a postdoc researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands in Tenerife, where he investigates the observational properties of a particular class of binary neutron stars. Alice has been invited several times to international conferences as an expert on magnetars. You will move to Italy to work at the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF): Rome Astronomical Observatory.
His project is aimed at Explore the strongest magnets in the Universe
4. Cancer cell killer research
Glory Delfanti
Gloria Delfanti, 33, is a post-doc researcher at the Experimental Immunology laboratory at the San Raffaele HospitalShe graduated in Molecular and Cellular Medical Biotechnology with honors in 2015. In 2020 she completed her PhD in Molecular Medicine, Immunology and Oncology program. Her studies have been supported by various scholarships, including the MiUR-UniSR scholarship, the FIRC-AIRC scholarship and the Young Researchers Mobility Program provided by the Giovanna Tosi Association for the fight against cancer. These grants also allowed her to spends a period as a visiting graduate research fellow at the Houston Methodist Research Institute. Here fusing immunology background with the fields of bioengineering and nanomedicine acquiring interdisciplinary skills.
His project focuses on Natural killer T-cell cell therapy for the treatment of liver metastases from colorectal cancer.
5. New ways to produce clean energy
Martina Fracchia
Aged 31, she graduated with honors from the University of Pavia in 2016 obtaining a study award from the University for the best graduates of the year. For his master’s degree thesis he also won the Photo Analitical srl prize established by the Electrochemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society. In 2020 he completed his doctorate at the University of Pavia, also spending a period of study at the University of Bremen. Since 2019 he has been a research fellow at the university where he is dedicated to the synthesis and characterization of new materials, in particular of high-entropy oxides. His research is part of studies aimed at developing alternative and sustainable methods for energy production. in particular for the production of hydrogen, through the electrolysis of water with the use of renewable energies. The challenge that Martina will be working on is to obtain high efficiencies in this process thanks to materials such as high-entropy oxides, which are cheap and have low toxicity for humans and the environment.
A solar park. Renewable energies are still little used to produce hydrogen. Carlo Furgeri Gilbert
The project he works on is High entropy oxides as sustainable and innovative electrocatalysts for the electrolysis reaction of water
6. Black holes and other mysteries of the universe
Ariadne Renzini
She is 31 years old and graduated with honors in theoretical physics in 2016. He developed his master’s thesis at Imperial College London, thanks to an Erasmus* study grant. She won a Schrodinger Fellowship at the same institution, and started ad deepen the study of gravitational waves. She received her PhD in 2020 and since then she is a temporary researcher at the California Institute of Technology and in 2022 he won a post-doctoral scholarship with which in autumn 2023 he will move to work in Milano Bicocca.
An image of the deep universe
The project he will be working on is “Unveiling the gravitational-wave background: A new way to measure and characterize the background population of binary black holes with LIGO and Virgo.
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