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Molecules Travel Award
Application deadline: 31 October 2025
Winner announcement: 31 January 2026
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students; – Plans to attend an international conference in 2026 (oral presentation or poster).
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Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Chiara Vigato
University of Torino, Italy
Ester Lopez Fernandez
University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Schmidt
Chairman
Universtity of Muenster
Prof. Dr. Victoria Samanidou
University of Thessaloniki
Prof. Ying-Wei Yang
Jilin University
Prof. Dr. Carlotta Granchi
University of Pisa
Winner
Azzurra Stefanucci
University G. d'Annunzio Chieti, Italy
Joan Josep Soldevila-Barreda
University of Bradford, UK
Aisha Bismillah
Dartmouth College, NH, USA
Award Committee
Dr. Derek McPhee
Chairman
MDPI
Prof. Roman Dembinski
Oakland University
Dr. Myung Hwan Whangbo
North Carolina State University
Prof. Mark von Itzstein
Griffith University
Prof. Farid Chemat
université d'Avignon
Winner
Juan V. Alegre-Requena
Colorado State University, CO, USA
Belinda E. Hetzler
New York University, NY, USA
Dan Preston
University of Otago, New Zealand
Winner
Jiawen Chen
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Daniele D’Alonzo
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Lin Huang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Winner
Peng Wang
Harvard University, MA, USA
Stefano D’Errico
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
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