Best Poster Awards 2022
25th ETH-Conference on Combustion Generated Nanoparticles
June 21-23, 2022 (online conference)
Every year Best Poster Awards are presented for the most accomplished poster presentations of the ETH Conference on Combustion Generated Nanoparticles. The ETH-NPC poster committee evaluates all posters on their design, clarity of the presentation – in case of the online conference based on the 3-min videos – and their scientific content.
Best Poster Award Committee
- PD Dr. Loretta Müller
- Dr. Konstantina Vasilatou
- Dr. Oliver F. Bischof (Awards Chair)
- Prof. em. Dr. Heinz Burtscher
- Prof. em. Dr. Peter Gehr
- Dr. Norbert Heeb
- Dr. Martin Stöckli
The three winners of the Best Poster Awards of the 25th ETH Nanoparticle Conference were announced during a dedicated awards ceremony in front of the entire online audience on Thursday, June 23rd. The committee once again recognized the three best poster presentations with award certificates and prize money. The winner of the best-rated poster received SFr 600 (approx. $630 U.S.), the second place SFr 400 (approx. $420) and the third place SFr 200 (approx. $210).
The winners of this year's Best Poster Awards were:
1st Prize
Una Trivanovic, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
High-throughput generation of aircraft-like soot (MP4)
2nd Prize
Dr. Martin Tanner, TOFWERK AG, Switzerland
Inductively Coupled Nitrogen Plasma Mass Spectrometry for online monitoring of metals in airborne particles (MP4)
3rd Prize
Inge Scharpf, IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Germany
Effects of Traffic-Related Nanoparticles in the animal model C. elegans: Neurodegeneration and Neurodegenerative Diseases (MP4)
Sponsor
Dr. med. Otto Brändli, Swiss Lung Foundation, kindly sponsored the 2022 Best Poster Awards. According to its website, the Swiss Lung Foundation "Aims to increase and disseminate knowledge regarding the causes and consequences of air pollution to address one of the major problems of today's civilization. Its goal is to help people who are sick caused by pathogens or pollutants contained in the air they inhaled, and to find ways to improve air quality outdoors, in homes and at workplaces. It supports research and promotes scientific work in the areas of social and preventive medicine."
