The 2021 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Prize was awarded to Anna Bernasconi for the thesis “Model, Integrate, Search…Repeat: A Sound Approach to Building Integrated Repositories of Genomic Data” and to Francesco Zanetto for the thesis “Low-Noise Mixed-Signal Electronics for Closed-Loop Control of Complex Photonic Circuits”.
The Chorafas prize
The Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation awards scientific prizes for outstanding work in selected fields in the engineering sciences, medicine and the natural sciences. It rewards research with high potential for practical application and special significance attached to its aftermath. The Foundation has 21 partner universities in Europe, North America and Asia (among which EPFL, ETHZ, TUM, MIT, UCLA, Purdue). It currently reserves two annual awards of $5,000 to the Ph.D. IT programme of the Politecnico di Milano.
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