Eni Award 2010

The Eni Award was officially established in July 2007 in order to develop innovative ideas for a better use of energy sources, promote environmental research and to valorize new generations of researchers.
The award is launched annually and has an established and prestigious network of researchers in the field of energy and the environment.
Its target is to monitor and promote the best research and the best scientists in the world in the field of energy, with the ambition to become a sort of Nobel Prize for Energy.

Eni Award has four distinct prizes:

• New Frontiers of Hydrocarbons;
• Renewable and Non-conventional Energy;
• Protection of the Environment;
• Debut in Research (2 prizes).

Three other awards will be given for Eni Innovation with the aim of encouraging and rewarding innovative and applied research in the fields of energy and the environment developed within Eni.

The 2010 winners are:

• Avelino Corma – The Instituto De Tecnologia Quimica Upv-Csic (Valencia)
• Mark Knackstedt - Australian National University (Canberra)
• Angela Belcher – MIT (Boston)
• François Morel - Princeton University
• Lorenzo Fagiano – Polytechnic Institute, Turin
• Matteo Mauro – University of Milan, Department of Inorganic Chemistry “L. Malatesta‘