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Quebec nanotechnology researcher received prestigious award

This going to be short and fast: Professor Federico Rosei, an expert from Institut national de la recherche scientifique (Université du Québec) on organic nanoelectronics, has been awarded the 2010 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. From the news release on Eureka Alert,

The foundation grants 25 of these awards annually to young, high level researchers around the world. Professor Rosei was selected in recognition of the caliber and scope of his research in the field of nanomaterials.

This honor will allow him to start collaborating with researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart and other German research teams on the cutting edge of nanotechnology. In the years ahead, Professor Rosei will work with his German colleagues to study self-assembly in surface molecules—one of the key concepts of nanotechnology—to develop new materials used for electronics, energy applications, and in the life sciences.

Professor Rosei currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials.

There is a copy of the news release on the institute’s website but it is in French. There is an English language version of the website but they don’t seem to have included translations of the news releases. Congratulations to Professor Rosei! (His work in organic nanoelectronics was mentioned in my June 15, 2010 posting.)

One of these days I should attempt an informal province by province analysis of the Canadian nanotechnology scene.  In terms of media coverage, it seems that Alberta and Québec are the most active. More analysis later, I hope.