The winners of the six Young Investigator Awards were announced yesterday at the Italian Embassy during the annual event of Issnaf, the foundation that brings together thousands of Italian scientists, academics and technologists working in laboratories, universities and research and innovation centres in North America.
Here is the list:
Embassy of Italy Award: Dr. Luca Luceri, research assistant professor, University of Southern California. After graduating from the Politecnico di Milano, Luceri obtained a doctorate in computer science at the University of Bern, and then became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. His research project is entitled 'AI-driven approaches for countering online harms on social media'.
Mario Gerla Award: Dr. Leonardo Bonati, associate research scientist, Northeastern University. After graduating from the University of Padua, Bonati obtained his doctorate from Northeastern University in Boston in computer engineering. His research project is entitled 'Next-generation wireless networks with open and intelligent automated systems'.
Franco Strazzabosco Award: Dr. Michele Cotrufo, assistant professor, University of Rochester. After graduating from the University of Padua, Cotrufo obtained a PhD in physics from the Eindhoven University of Technology, followed by postdoctoral fellowships at universities in Texas and New York before coming to Rochester. His research project is entitled 'Engineered Metamaterials for energy-efficient optical computing and signal processing'.
RnB4Culture Award: Dr. Laura Ingallinella, assistant professor, University of Toronto. After earning her doctorate from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Italian philology, Ingallinella was a postdoctoral fellow at Wellesley College before being hired by the University of Toronto. Her research project is entitled 'The Fraudulent Muse: Gender and forgery in early modern Italy'.
Paola Campese Award: Dr. Gabriele Casirati, researcher fellow, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston Children's Hospital. A graduate of the Università Statale di Milano, he joined the Dana Farber in 2020; his research project is entitled 'Epitope editing to enable targeted immunotherapy of Acute Myeloid Leukemia'.
Infn Bruno Touschek Award: Dr. Simone Mazza, assistant project scientist, University of California Santa Cruz. After receiving his doctorate in physics from the University of Milan, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Santa Cruz for several years before arriving at his current position. The title of his research is 'Critical detector development for high energy and nuclear physics'.
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