Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the Coatings 2023 Early Career Investigator Award are Dr. João Paulo Mendes Tribst and Dr. Giulia Masi.

Dr. João Paulo Mendes Tribst is an Assistant Professor at Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has experience

in Dentistry, with a particular focus on Dental Materials, Dental Prosthesis, Dental Ceramics, Finite Element Analysis, Dental Implants and Traumas. Dr. João Paulo Mendes Tribst completed a sandwich doctorate at Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam from 2018 to 2019.

Dr. Giulia Masi is an Assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. Her research interests include alkali-activated materials, ceramics, construction materials, corrosion, cultural heritage and durability. Dr. Giulia Masi received her PhD in 2017 and worked on the EU M-ERA.net project B-IMPACT (2015-2017) and the RAPCON project, funded by CARIPLO Fundation (2020-2023).

As the awardees, Dr. João Paulo Mendes Tribst and Dr. Giulia Masi will each receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, an option to publish a paper free of charge in Coatings after peer-review and an electronic certificate.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Kind regards,
Coatings Editorial Office