Congratulations to Dr. Alessio Tugnolo that was recently awarded (Premio Michele Stanca, https://www.aissa.it/premio_ms), during the “XX Conference AISSA” (February 16-17th 2023), by the Italian Association of the Agricultural Science Societies (AISSA), for the best Ph.D. thesis in Agricultural machinery and mechanization, with a thesis entitled: “Feasibility studies and engineering of optical simplified and stand-alone devices for agri-food applications“. …
For the second year in a row, the 6th “What For Award, Federalimentare” goes to a student of the PhD course in Food Systems! On the occasion of the 26th Workshop on the Developments in the Italian PhD Research on Food Science Technology and Biotechnology, Andrea Bresciani’s research on “Effects of processing on pulses and related …
Serena Malabusini, PhD Student in the XXXV cycle, won one of the prizes provided by IOBC (IOBC Travel Awards), available for students and young researchers (under 35), for the participation at the XV Workshop of the IOBC Global Working Group “Mass Rearing and Quality Assurance”, held in Bologna from 5 to 9 September 2022 and …
Eni, in the framework of the 2023 Edition of the Eni Award Prizes (Young Researcher of the Year), announces two prizes addressed to graduates born in or after the year 1990 who have defended their Doctorate Thesis at an Italian University during 2022 or 2021 on the various scientific topics promoted by the Eni Award: …
Congratulations to Dr. Francesco Riva that was recently awarded, during the “Cortona Procarioti” meeting (June 23-25th 2022), by the Italian Society of General Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology (SIMBM), for “the best PhD thesis in general microbiology”. The PhD thesis is title “Antibiotic resistance spread mediated by horizontal gene transfer in the agri-food ecosystem“. Dr Francesco Riva …
During the VII National SISS Conference (Matera, 27-29 April 2022), Noemi Sofia Rabitti, PhD student in Food Systems (tutor: Monica Laureati), has been awarded with the SISS Young Researchers Award 2022 by presenting a work carried out within the Mind FoodS Hub project (Lombardy Region) entitled “The role of sustainability information on consumers’ acceptance of …
The oral presentation of Andrea Bresciani, PhD student in the Food Systems PhD course, entitled “Exploitation of pulses in the production of extruded snacks”, has been awarded with the “Gold Award” in recognition of his performance in 2021 Global Food Science Student Virtual Competition.
Andrea, PhD student in the Food Systems PhD course (Università degli Studi di Milano), has been awarded by the Cereals & Grains Association for the significance of his research within the food system and its contribution to the FAO Sustainable Development Goals. His video (here) won the “Viewer’s Choice” prize of the 2020 Student Research …
Dr. Camilla Cattaneo, who obtained her PhD degree in Food Systems under the supervision of prof. Ella Pagliarini, has been nominated as the Laureate of Giract’s European Best PhD Thesis Flavor Research Award (a.y. 2019-2020) for her research entitled ‘New perspective on taste: exploring association among oral perception, tongue physiology and oral microbiota composition’. The selection was performed by …
Stefano Bernardi, PhD student in the Food Systems PhD programme (Università degli Studi di Milano), has been awarded the Best Oral Communication at the XL Congresso Nazionale Società Italiana di Nutrizione Umana (SINU), 27-29th November 2019, in Genoa – Italy. At the conference Stefano has been presenting the JPI-HDHL European project MaPLE, with the speech entitled: “Effetto di una dieta …
Francesca Saitta, PhD student in the Food Systems PhD programme (Università degli Studi di Milano), has been awarded with the Travel Grant for students from Central & Eastern Europe and from Mediterranean area supporting her participation at the joint 5th Central and Eastern European Conference on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (CEEC-TAC5) and 14th Mediterranean Conference on Calorimetry and …
Camilla Cattaneo, PhD student in the Food Systems PhD course (Università degli Studi di Milano), has been awarded with The Rick Bell Memorial Travel Scholarship to attend the 2019 Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium in Edinburg, Scotland this coming July. Camilla was selected among a very large number of excellent young sensory and consumer scientists for …
On the occasion of the 18th European Young Cereal Scientists and Technologists Workshop (EYCSTW) that has been held in San Benedetto del Tronto (Italy) from 15th to 17th April, Gaetano Cardone – 1st-year PhD student in Food Systems (XXXIV cycle) – has received the first prize for the best oral presentation. Gaetano presented his work about …
We are all pleased and proud to announce that Camilla Cattaneo, PhD student in Food Systems University of Milan, has been selected as the Awardee of the Sensory Sciences Scholarship (15000 $) for the academic year of 2018/2019. The most prestigiuos scholarship in the Sensory Science field, is awarded annually worldwilde in honor of the memory of Prof. Rose Marie …
Elena Maria Colombo, PhD student of the Food Systems PhD course (Università degli Studi di Milano), received a travel award for her work “In vitro study of endophytic streptomycetes and their influence on wheat-Fusarium spp. pathosystem”, supporting the participation as young researcher to the “First International Congress of Biological Control” held in Beijing (14-16 May). …
Ghislain Fotie, PhD student of the Food Systems PhD programme (Università degli Studi di Milano), was awarded with a certificate of merit for the poster presented in the session “Emerging Food Technology for Shelf-life Extension” of the “8th Shelf Life International Meeting” (SLIM 2017; 1-3 November 2017, Bangkok, Thailand), entitled: Effectiveness of Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNCs) Application …
Francesca Saitta, PhD student of the Food Systems PhD programme (Università degli Studi di Milano), was honoured with the “Poster Award” in the section of Life Science during her participation at the “13th Mediterranean Conference on Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis – Medicta 2017” in Loano (Italy), 24-27 September 2017. The awarded poster was: Application of …
The Editorial Office of Foods is pleased to announce the Foods 2017 Travel Awards for junior investigators and PhD students. These awards will help support travel for the chosen junior investigator and PhD student to present their data, in poster or oral presentations, at a scientific conference to be held between November 2017 and October 2018. The …
During the “Seventh European Conference on Sensory and Consumer Research” held in Dijon (France) from 11th to 14th September 2016 three European PhD students were recognized for the high scientific quality of their abstracts among the 550 presented. Cristina Proserpio, PhD student of the Food Systems PhD programme (Università degli Studi di Milano), along with …
The poster of the Food Systems PhD student, Parisa Abbasi Parizard (in the photo), entitled “Phenolics from pigmented grains have remarkable immunomodulating properties”, was awarded during the Miami 2016 Winter Symposium (January 24-27, 2016; Miami, USA).