Enzo Ferroni Award

On 13 Dec 2013, ECIS and the “Prof. Enzo Ferroni Foundation” have agreed upon the creation of the Enzo Ferroni Award for a Young Scientist to acknowledge the top level scientific activity of young researchers in the field of colloid and interface science. 

Starting from 2019, the Ferroni Foundation will support three individual prizes every year. Each award will consist in € 500,00.

The prize will be awarded for the best oral presentation of a young scientist.

Applicants must possess a M.Sc degree and must have been actively engaged in scientific research for a period of time shorter than the PhD plus 1 year.

For the application procedure please consult the conference website. 

The decision will be taken during the annual meeting by a special Jury nominated by the Chair of the Conference.

Winners of the 2022 Enzo Ferroni Award:

  • SHAULI XHORXHINA 
    University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland 
    dSTORM super resolution microscopy of pNIPAM microgelG
  • MATTEO MILANI 
    Université Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France 
    Drying Drops of Colloidal Suspensions
  • LARISSA BRAUN 
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
    Why do polyelectrolyte / surfactant mixtures form extended structures at the air / water interface? 

Winners of the 2021 Enzo Ferroni Award:

  • NICOLO DI NOVO 
    Universita di Trento – Italy 
    Growth and self-ejection of single condensate droplet on nanostructured micro truncated cones
  • SE-HYEONG JUNG 
    DWI – Leibnitz Institute for Interactive Materials / RWTH Aachen – Germany 
    Biobased and pH-responsive Supramacromolecular Microgels with tunable size and shape via droplet-based Microfluidics
  • MAINGRET VALENTIN 
    Universite di Bordeaux – France 
    Formulation and polymerization of Pickering emulsions stabilized by stimuli-responsive dextran-based nanoparticles

Winners of the 2019 Enzo Ferroni Award:

  • DIANA CHOLAKOVA 
    Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Sofia University – Bulgaria 
    Symmetry break in emulsion droplets of mixed alkanes upon cooling
  • GIUSEPPE ROSARIO DEL SORBO 
    Spectroscopy Group, Institute Laue Langevin, Grenoble – France 
    Understanding viscosity changes in Polyelectrolyte Surfactant Complexes
  • CHRISTIAN LANG 
    Jülich Center for Neutron Science, Garching – Germany 
    Towards a quantitative prediction of the flow of polydisperse rod-like colloids

Winners of the 2018 Enzo Ferroni Award:

  • MICHELE ZANINI
    ETH – Switzerland 
    Rough particles at fluid interfaces

Winners of the 2017 Enzo Ferroni Award:

  • VITTORIO VERCILLO
    Airbus Group – Germany 
    Design rules for micro/nanostructuring of icephobic surfaces

Winners of the 2016 Enzo Ferroni Award:

  • HAIHUI JOY JIANG
    University of Sidney – AUS 
    Ionic Liquids Induce Surfactant-free Self-assembly

Winners of the 2015 Enzo Ferroni Award:

  • FRANÇOIS BOULOGNE
    Princeton University – USA 
    Homogeneous deposition of particles on hydrogels by absorption

Winners of the 2014 Enzo Ferroni Award:

  • CASPAR SCHREUER
    University of Ghent – Belgium 
    Electrical Field Induced Charging of single Colloidal Particles