Eni Award 2011

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 2011 winners are:

• Gabor A. Somorjai - University of California at Berkeley
• Martin Landrø- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Gregory Stephanopoulos - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Jean-Marie Tarascon - Université de Picardie Jules Verne
• Simone Gamba - Politecnico di Milano
• Fabrizio Frontalini - Università di Urbino.