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Loredana Protesescu wins Nanomaterials 2020 Young Investigator Award

25 March 2021

Loredana Protesescu, tenure-track assistant professor Nanomaterials Chemistry at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials (Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, The Netherlands) has won the Nanomaterials 2020 Young Investigator Award.

Dr. Loredana Protesescu
Dr. Loredana Protesescu

The evaluation committee, consisting of several members of the Editorial Board of Nanomaterials, announced in total three winners of the Nanomaterials 2020 Young Investigator Award. This was decided on in order to honour the very impressive pool of nominees: Dr. Ya Yang, Professor of the Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China), will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF. Both Dr. Loredana Protesescu, assistant professor Nanomaterials Chemistry at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials (Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, The Netherlands) and Dr. João Conde, NOVA Medical School, (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal) will receive an honorarium of 800 CHF. All of them are with an offer to publish a paper free of charge before 31 December 2021 in Nanomaterials after peer-review, and an engraved plaque.

For the official press release please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/awards/1075

Last modified:26 March 2021 11.48 a.m.

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