Eni announces the names of the researchers and scientists awarded in the ninth edition of Eni Award, the award established in 2007 and which over the years has become an international point of reference for research in the fields of energy and the environment. Eni Award aims to promote better use of energy sources and stimulate the new generations of researchers in their work, reflecting the importance that Eni gives to scientific research and innovation.
The prize New Frontiers of Hydrocarbons, Downstream section, was assigned to Johannes Lercher, of the Technische Universität München, for the research “Novel catalytic strategies to Alkenes and Alkanols”; in the Upstream section, the recognition went to Christopher Ballentine of the University of Oxford, for the research "Novel Tracers for Determining the Fluid Processes Controlling Subsurface Gas Origin and Behavior", ex aequo with Emiliano Mutti of the University of Parma, for the research “Deep-Water Sedimentation: Turbidites And Contourites And Their Facies And Reservoir Characteristics”.
The prize Environmental Protection was awarded to David Milstein, of the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), for the research “Novel, Environmentally Friendly, Efficient Catalytic Reactions to Replace Polluting Processes”.
Federico Bella of the Politecnico di Torino, for the PhD thesis “Photopolymers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” and Alessandra Menafoglio of the Politecnico di Milano, for the PhD thesis “Object Oriented Geostatistics”, was awarded the Prize Debut in Research.
The Eni Award 2016 prizes will be delivered on next October 20 in Rome, during the official ceremony to be held at the Palazzo del Quirinale, in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella.
