Riccardo Chebac and Giovanni Zullo, PhD researchers at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano, are among the winners of the Italian PhD Nuclear Talent Award 2025, a competition that rewards the best doctoral theses in the nuclear field.
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The paper “Multi-pulse Active Substation for Power Quality Improvement and Recovery of Regenerative Braking Energy in DC Railway”, written by Hamed Jafari Kaleybar, Morris Brenna and Dario Zaninelli, received a Best Paper Award at the IEEE ICHQP 2024 (International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power), held in Chengdu (China) from 15 to 18 October 2024.
Professors Michela Longo and Alberto Dolara, lecturers at the Energy Department of the Politecnico di Milano, received the Special Session Organisers’ Award at the SMART 2024 – Third International Conference on Sustainable Mobility Applications, Renewables, and Technology, held in Dubai from 22 to 24 November 2024.
Hisashi Ninokata, former visiting professor at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano and currently a collaborator of the Department, was awarded the prestigious Seaborg Medal 2024 by the American Nuclear Society (ANS).
Filippo Bovera, Researcher at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano, received the Energy Management 2024 Award during the Fire Enermanagement conference, held on 21 November 2024 in Milan.
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Enrico Zio, lecturer at the Department of Energy at Politecnico di Milano, received the prestigious “Educator of the Year 2024” award from the International System Safety Society (ISSS).
From 4 to 6 September 2024, the 79th National Congress of the Italian Thermotechnical Association (ATI) was held in Genoa, during which Francesca Iapaolo, a student on the PhD course in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology (STEN) at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano, was awarded the prestigious AIMSEA Prize for the best poster.
On 26 September 2024, during the 40th AiCARR (Italian Association for Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration) National Conference in Peschiera del Garda, Federico Pedranzini, lecturer at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano, was awarded the prestigious REHVA Professional Award in Design.