Natta Award is an award that the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta" of Politecnico di Milano assigns to who has distinguished himself/herself in the world for his/her original studies and researches, and has reached outstanding achievements in the main areas of interest for the CMIC Department.
This award was established for the first time in 2013 to celebrate the 50ths of the Nobel prize to Giulio Natta.
During the Awards Ceremony is organized the Lectio Magistralis.
Natta Award 2022 | Makoto Fujita
The University of Tokyo, Department of Applied Chemistry | Institute for Molecular Science, Division of Advanced Molecular Science
Natta Lecture: Coordination Self-Assembly: from Origins to the Latest Advances
Makoto Fujita is University Distinguished Professor of Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo, Japan. He received his Ph. D. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1987. After working in Chiba University and Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) at Okazaki, in 1999, he was appointed as a full professor of Nagoya University. In 2002, he moved to the University of Tokyo as a full professor.
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Natta Award 2021 | Michele Parrinello
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia | Genova
Natta Lecture: Seeing is believing
Michele Parrinello is currently Principal Investigator of the research line Atomistic Simulations at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa, Italy. Together with Roberto Car he has introduced the ab-initio molecular dynamics method. This method, which goes under the name of Car-Parrinello Method, represents the beginning of a new field, and has dramatically influenced both molecular dynamics simulations and electronic structure calculations.
Natta Award 2020 | Patrik Schmuki
Friedrich Alexander Universität (FAU)
Natta Lecture: Self-organizing electrochemistry: Formation and features of aligned oxide nanotubes
Patrik Schmuki is Professor at the Department of Materials Science of the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and chair of the Institute for Surface Science and Corrosion.
Natta Award 2019 | Sir J. Fraser Stoddart
2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Northwestern University
Natta Lecture: The Growing Impact of the Mechanical Bond on Polymer and Materials Sciences
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart is a Scottish chemist who is Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry and head of the Stoddart Mechanostereochemistry Group in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University in the United States. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.
Natta Award 2018 | Elazer R. Edelman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Natta Lecture: Materials Science, Biomechanics and Medicine: Synergistic Innovation
Elazer R. Edelman, M.D., Ph.D., is the Edward J. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Science at MIT, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Attending Physician in the coronary care unit at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He and his laboratory have pioneered basic findings in vascular biology and the development and assessment of biotechnology.
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Natta Award 2017 | Arvind Varma
School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University
Natta Lecture: Selected Topics Related to Energy and Chemicals
Arvind Varma is R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor, School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. His research interests are in chemical and catalytic reaction engineering, and new energy sources.
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Natta Award 2016 | Satchit Srinivasan
Vice President, Research & Technology at Solvay SA
Natta Lecture: From Molecules to Money and their impact on Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Satchit Srinivasan is also responsible for RD&T Fluorinated Polymers at the Solvay headquarters in Bollate (MI). He joined the Belgian chemical group in 1989 and since then has held numerous positions in research, development, technology and business management.
Natta Award 2015 | Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus
University of Bielefeld
Natta Lecture: Some like it hot - Combustion and the Future
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus is Professor in Physical Chemistry at the Bielefeld University. Her researchs focus on combustion diagnostics using laser spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, the deposition of functional materials from the gas-phase, and the in-situ analysis of reactive systems.
Natta Award 2014 | Nicholas Peppas
University of Texas at Austin
Natta Lecture: Intelligent/Recognitive Nanoscale Systems for New Therapeutic Applications
Nicholas Peppas is the Fletcher Pratt Chair of Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a pioneer in the synthesis, characterization and dynamic behavior of polymer networks. He has been the most influential scientist in the utilization of hydrogels as biomaterials, in bionanotechnology and in molecular recognition processes.
Natta Award 2013 | Greg Stephanopoulos
MIT di Cambridge (Massachusetts)
Natta Lecture: Metabolic Engineering
Greg N. Stephanopoulos is a chemical engineer, Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked at MIT, Caltech, and at the University of Minnesota in the areas of biotechnology, bioinformatics, and metabolic engineering especially in the areas of bioprocessing for biochemical and biofuel production.