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Eleni Stavrinidou awarded with the “Science, She Says!” prize for Europe

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On 13 June 2024, the Italian Ambassador to Sweden Michele Pala met with the Vice-Chancellor Prof. Jan-Ingvar Jönsson of the University of Linköping (LIU), one of Sweden’s youngest but most dynamic universities. Founded in 1963, LIU is a university with a special focus on interdisciplinary research, strongly linked to an area where there are major industrial enterprises such as SAAB and SECTRA.

On the occasion of the visit, the Ambassador, accompanied by the Embassy’s Science Attaché Augusto Marcelli, conferred the ‘Science She, Says!’ award to LIU researcher Eleni Stavrinidou. This year’s edition of the Prize for Europe is awarded by our Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to a European scientist who has distinguished herself through her research activities and her contribution to bilateral cooperation with our country in the field of science and technology.

At the ceremony, organized to honor one of LIU’s top female scientists who has been collaborating with Italian institutions for many years, the Ambassador emphasized the importance of bilateral cooperation between Italy and Sweden, and stressed that the Italian Embassy in Stockholm stimulates and supports cooperation in all fields, promoting the Italian scientific and technological system, stimulating and encouraging all new forms of collaboration in science and technology.

Dr. Eleni Stavrinidou has received this award for her outstanding academic and scientific career and internationally recognized achievements. Thanks to her advanced and ambitious thinking, she has developed original technologies, supported by international patents. Eleni Stavrinidou has in fact found original methods for the integration of organic electronic materials into plants and realized dedicated electrochemical devices integrated in plants. She has grown bio-hybrid plants, tested synthetic materials to improve plant processes and created a bio-electronic soil. In recent years, in collaboration with Italian scientists from the Universities of Milan and Bari, the Italian Research Council and the Italian Institute of Technology, she has also been working on fundamental studies in plant biology.