Leonardo Scarabelli, former CIC biomaGUNE PhD student (Bionanoplasmonics Laboratory), has been awarded with the 2017 IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists for the best Ph.D. theses in the chemical sciences. The award will be presented at the 46th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress, to be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 9 - 14 July 2017.
The winners, who are from five different countries, will each receive a cash prize of USD 1000 and travel expenses to the 46th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress, 9-14 July 2017, in São Paulo, Brazil. Each winner will also be invited to present a poster at the IUPAC Congress describing his/her award-winning work and to submit a short critical review on aspects of his/her research topic, to be published in Pure and Applied Chemistry. The awards will be presented to the winners of the 2016 and 2017 competitions during the Opening Ceremony of the Congress.