First Mobility Grant Awarded
Isabella Vacchi, PhD Student at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Strasbourg, France, has received the first Graphene Flagship mobility grant and will spend three months at the University of Kyoto, Japan.
“I'm really glad that I got this mobility grant from the Graphene Flagship. I will have the opportunity to spend part of my PhD in the Laboratory of Professor Naoki Komatsu, at the University of Kyoto, Japan.”
“Taking advantage of the chemistry approach using polyglycidol developed by Professor Komatsu to render nanomaterials highly water soluble, I will investigate on the preparation of multi-functionalized graphene materials for biomedical applications,” says Isabella Vacchi who will start her three-month period in Japan in January 2017.
Professor Alberto Bianco is Isabella Vacchi's PhD supervisor:
“Isabella will have a fruitful experience to expand her competence on functionalization of graphene. This will be also beneficial, on her return, for our group and the biomedical studies we are performing for the Flagship.”
Mobility Grant
The Graphene Flagship mobility grant supports visits abroad by young researchers within the Graphene Flagship consortium who are either enrolled in a PhD program or who have obtained their doctoral degrees at most five years before the planned visit, that has to be at least six weeks long.
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Graphene Flagship
The Graphene Flagship is a Future and Emerging Technology Flagship by the European Commission. With a budget of €1 billion, the Graphene Flagship represents a new form of joint, coordinated research on an unprecedented scale, forming Europe's biggest ever research initiative.