Young Scientist Award Prize Winners
The "Young Scientist of the Year" award is given every year by the Users' Organization for outstanding work done at the ESRF by a scientist 35 years of age or younger. The prize is presented during the annual ESRF Users' Meeting.
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2009Gergely Katona was awarded the prize for his innovative experiments in the field of structural dynamics of proteins using synchrotron radiation. While working at IBS (Grenoble) he helped to introduce the technique of Raman spectrometry to the cryobench, allowing the energy of frozen intermediaries in biological processes to be read without damaging them with radiation. Katona is now an assistant professor at Gothenburg University, Sweden.
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2008The Brookhaven National Lab physicist Stuart Wilkins, formerly a scientist at the beamline ID20 at the ESRF, is the 2008 winner of the Young Scientist Award. This prize recognises “his work on X-ray scattering studies of strongly correlated systems, and in particular transition metal oxides”.
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2007Pietro Gambardella is the winner of the 2007 ESRF Young Scientist Award given by the ESRF Users’ Association. Pietro is a researcher at the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology (ICN). The prize acknowledges his work on “the understanding of magnetic properties of low-dimensional systems using polarised X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy”.
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2006The award of the 2006 Young Scientist prize went to Paul Tafforeau, for the application of X-ray synchrotron imaging to studies in paleontology. Paul Tafforeau presented his studies on ID19 and ID17, firstly of fossil teeth from a 35 million-year old primate, and inferences as to the primate's diet, and secondly the study of small fossil eggs and the imaging of the skeleton remaining inside the egg.
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2005An Italian scientist working at the University of Edinburgh, Serena Margadonna, won the 10th Young Scientist Award. She exploited high-resolution diffraction facilities at the ESRF to perform outstanding crystallographic work on complex materials, with special emphasis on molecular solids. She presented her work in her talk "A chemist’s adventures with synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction".
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2004Time-resolved X-ray scattering studies gained Anton Plech the 2004 Young Scientist Award. He was presented with the prize during the 14th ESRF Users' Meeting on 10 and 11 February 2004. Currently a researcher at the University of Konstanz, Anton took the first steps in his career at the ESRF, where he held a post-doctoral position at the ID09 beamline for 2 1/2 years.
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2003At the 13th ESRF Users' Meeting on 12 February 2003, the Young Scientist Prize was awarded to Claudia Dallera, from the University Politecnico di Milano. Claudia, the first woman to receive the prize, began her research career at the ESRF. The prize recognises her outstanding contribution to instrumentation, spectroscopy and high-energy photoemission.
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2002The award was presented to Lawrence Margulies by A. Fontaine, Chairman of the Award Committee, during the 12th ESRF Users' Meeting on 13 February 2002. Lawrence, a Risø Scientist in residence at the ESRF, was chosen for this prize for his outstanding research in the field of Materials Science, and in particular for his research on the plastic deformation of metals where he studied the deformation of individual grains. His work has led to the development of new methods for studying embedded grains in polycrystalline materials that will be of significant general use to the materials science community. Lawrence presented his work under the title "3D-resolved studies of plastic deformation in metals".
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2001At the 11th ESRF Users' Meeting held on 19 February, 2001, Prof. Jens Als-Nielsen, who chaired the award committee, presented the Young Scientist Prize to Guillaume Fiquet, from the Université Paris VI. Guillaume described his work under the title "The Physics of the Earth's Interior".
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2000The 10th ESRF Users' Meeting was held on 8 and 9 February 2000. Since this was the 10th Users' Meeting, the Users' Organization decided to offer a prize of 10 000 FF, twice the usual amount, to the winner of the Young Scientist Award, Richard Neutze, from the University of Uppsala. He presented results covering picosecond biology, picosecond chemistry, and simulations of the potential for femtosecond X-ray imaging. |
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1999At the 9th ESRF Users' Meeting, held on 11 February 1999, the Young Scientist Prize of 5000 FF was awarded to Peter Cloetens, from the ESRF Topography beamline. Peter came to Grenoble in 1994 after graduating in engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. During experiments on BM5 he observed that objects with negligible absorption can be imaged in a monochromatic beam; over the following three years he explored this phenomenon both experimentally and theoretically, and exploited it to study a number of problems in materials science. Together with an Italian team he helped develop a wave-guide to produce a submicron coherent divergent source and hence the first magnetified phase contrast images.
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1997The 8th ESRF Users' Meeting was held on 21 November 1997, following the 4-day conference "Highlights in X-ray Synchrotron Radiation Research". The Young Scientist Award was made to Michael Thoms (Erlangen University) for the development of a new image plate detector, an order of magnitude faster than other detectors of this kind. This development can lead to unprecedented possibilities for new experimental techniques, such as the measurement of the kinetics of phase transitions and the study of single crystals subjected to extreme conditions. Michael described the work he performed at the ESRF which lead to the optimization of this detector, as well as some of the first results obtained at the high pressure beamline ID30, ending with an overview of other potential applications.
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1996At the 7th ESRF Users' Meeting, "Science at the ESRF", held on 18 November 1996, the Young Scientist Award was made to Paul Loubeyre (Université Paris VI) for the extension of single crystal X-ray diffraction above the Mbar, enabling the determination of the equation of state of hydrogen, of most fundamental interest and of great astrophysical relevance. Unique in its kind worldwide, the new experimental apparatus developed by P. Loubeyre has revealed the structural properties of a number of systems including H2, D2, He, LiH, H2O, Ar(H2)2 and Ar(O2)3.
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1995At the 6th ESRF Users' Meeting held on 20 and 21 November 1995, and attended by some 300 participants, the first "Young Scientist Award" was made. This award, accompanied by a cash prize of 5 000 FF, was made to Francesco Sette (ESRF Inelastic X-ray Scattering Group) for the ground-breaking measurements, by inelastic scattering, of the collective excitations of water in previously inaccessible regions of the energy-momentum plane. These demonstrated the new scientific horizons opened up by his uncommon achievements in the construction of the very high resolution set-up on ID16 - performed in less than four years - and included the design, implementation and validation of many novel and daring technical concepts.
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Structural studies of virulence factors from the bacterium Helicobacter pylori