ICO/IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics 2021 to Giulia F. Mancini

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© 2022 EPFL

Giulia Fulvia Mancini wins the 2021 Young Scientist Prize in Optics for her “contributions to imaging and scattering of nanostructured materials using high- harmonic soft X-ray sources and research on extreme ultraviolet imaging"

The IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) prize in optics is annually through ICO (International Commission for Optics) to a scientist who has made noteworthy contributions to applied optics and photonics during a maximum of 8 years of research experience after having earned a PhD degree.

Giulia Fulvia Mancini is now Associate Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Pavia (Italy), head of the Laboratory for Ultrafast X-ray and Electron Microscopy (LUXEM) and Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant ULTRAIMAGE. She was Senior research Associate at LSU between 2017-2020 and she closely collaborates with the EPFL’s Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS) through LaserLab Europe.