Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Molecules 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award. This award is for two PhD students or recently qualified PhDs who have produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential.
The award has been granted to:
“Development of Modern Sample Preparation Techniques Utilizing Novel Materials Combined with Chromatographic and Spectrometric Methods for the Determination of Environmental Pollutants in Food and Environmental Samples”
By Dr. Natalia Manousi, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
“Studying Protein Function with Fluorescent Nanoantennas”
By Dr. Scott G. Harroun, University of Montreal, Canada
Each winner will receive CHF 800, an electronic certificate, and an offer to publish a featured paper in Molecules with the article processing charge (APC) waived before the end of 2023.
On behalf of the evaluation committee, we would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the applicants for submitting their exceptional theses and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.
Kind regards,
Molecules Award Team
Molecules 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award
Winner
Nikolay Tkachenko
Utah State University, UT, USA
Nikolaos Tzouras
Ghent University, Belgium;
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Schmidt
Chairman
Universtity of Muenster
Dr. Antonella Curulli
CNR ISMN
Prof. Dr. Dimitra Hadjipavlou-Litina
Aristotles University of Thessaloniki
Prof. Domenico Lombardo
CNR - Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche
Prof. Jean-Yves Winum
University of Montpellier
Prof. Dr. Victoria Samanidou
University of Thessaloniki
Prof. Dr. Carlotta Granchi
University of Pisa
Winner
Natalia Manousi
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Scott G. Harroun
Université de Montréal, QC, Canada; Polytechnique Montréal, QC, Canada
Award Committee
Prof. Farid Chemat
Chairman
université d'Avignon
Prof. Domenico Lombardo
CNR - Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche
Prof. Keith Gordon
Otago Unversity
Prof. Dr. Jessica M. Rosenholm
Pharmaceutical Sciences Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University
Dr. Antonella Curulli
CNR ISMN
Prof. Jean-Yves Winum
University of Montpellier
Prof. Dr. Victoria Samanidou
University of Thessaloniki
Prof. Raffaele Capasso
University of Naples Federico II
Prof. Dr. Carlotta Granchi
University of Pisa
Winner
Christian Steinebach
University of Bonn, Germany
Award Committee
Prof. Farid Chemat
Chairman
université d'Avignon
Prof. Jianxun Ding
Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr. Run Zhang
The University of Queensland
Dr. Benevides Pessela
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC
Prof. Dr. Dimitra Hadjipavlou-Litina
Aristotles University of Thessaloniki
Prof. Silvano Geremia
Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste
Prof. Dr. Milen I. Georgiev
Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
