Giovanni Sostero Award

  • The Giovanni Sostero Award - which is supported by Sincrotrone Trieste, is aimed to remember and to honor Giovanni Sostero, formerly in charge of the soft X-ray metrology laboratory at Elettra, who sadly passed away in late 2012.



 

2018 Selection Committee

Marco Zangrando (ELETTRA, Italy) -- Chair

Daniele Cocco (LCLS, SLAC, USA)

Mourad Idir (NSLS-II, BNL, USA)

Yu-Shan Huang (TPS, NSRRC, Taiwan) -- LOC of IWXM 2018

Frank Siewert (HZB/BESSY-II, Germany)

Peter Takacs (BNL, USA)

 

 



2013 Recipient

  • The award was established for the first time at the MEADOW 2013 workshop in Trieste, and presented to Peter Z. Takacs for his outstanding and pioneering achievements that have greatly contributed to the formation and development of the community represented at this workshop.








1st Giovanni Sostero Award Winner: Peter Takacs (BNL)



2015 Recipient

  • The Giovanni Sostero Award for 2015 was presented to Frank Siewert (HZB, Germany)
  • For having pushed the limit of X-ray metrology to unprecedented level and for his collaborative and constructive support to the international community.





2nd Giovanni Sostero Award Winner:  Frank Siewer




                                                                             2018 Recipient

 

  • The Giovanni Sostero Award for 2018 was presented to Prof. Shinan Qian (Brookhaven National Lab, USA)
  • For the original contribution to profilometry, the succeeding improvements implemented in LTP and the great support given to other laboratories.

            3rd Giovanni Sostero Award Winner:  Shinan Qian (on the right)