The Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication was among the highlights of this year’s FNR Awards honouring excellence in research and science communication. Two of their researchers, Matteo Polettini and Zhe Liu, received an award during the ceremony that took place on Friday, 14 October.

Category Outstanding Scientific Publications

Matteo Polettini, from the Physics and Materials Science Research Unit, was awarded on site one of the two awards in the category Outstanding Scientific Publications for his publication Efficiency Statistics at All Times: Carnot Limit at Finite Power, published in the journal “Physical Review Letters”.

Category Outstanding PhD Thesis

Zhe Liu, from the Computer Science and Communications Research Unit, was the winner of the Category Outstanding PhD Thesis for his PhD thesis Lightweight Public-Key Cryptography for Wireless Sensor Nodes. He received his prize remotely.

The aim of the FNR Awards is to reward outstanding researchers and science communicators along with their individual institutions.

Learn more about all the recipients of the FNR Awards 2016

Photo caption: Matteo Polettini, joint awardee of the Outstanding Scientific Publications at the 2016 FNR Awards, © Charles Caratini 2016