DIPARTIMENTO DI CHIMICA, MATERIALI E INGEGNERIA CHIMICA "GIULIO NATTA"

Natta Award

 

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 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.

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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.