The Advanced Science Young Innovator Award honors exceptional interdisciplinary scientific work in the fundamental understanding and applied development of materials science, physics, chemistry, medical and life sciences, and engineering by a young scientist or engineer. The recipient must also demonstrate exceptional promise as an emerging research leader.
The 2024 award, supported by Wiley, was presented on July 13, during the Advanced Science/VIEW Symposium 2024 and the 2nd International Symposium on Materiobiology in Shanghai, China (12-14 July). It was given to individual researchers who have conducted outstanding fundamental and applied research in materials science, physics, chemistry, medical and life sciences, and engineering. The selection was based on the exceptional quality, novelty, and significance of the candidate’s research.
Prof. Eva Blasco has been selected for this prestigious recognition. Her work focuses on the development of new smart functional materials that exhibit “on-demand” response using high resolution 3D/4D microprinting. Combining the advantages of smart materials and the precise microfabrication offers new opportunities in a wide range of application areas, including biomedicine, the main focus of POLINA.
Eva Blasco completed her Ph.D. studies at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). Thereafter, she obtained an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship to work in the groups of Prof. Barner-Kowollik and Prof. Wegener at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany and she continued as a group leader at the same institution. In October 2020, she was appointed junior professor at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) and in January 2023 she was promoted to full professor. She has published more than 100 publications and she is principal investigator in large number of national and international projects. Since 2023, she is also a member of the executive board of the Excellence Cluster on Additive Manufacturing 3D Matter Made to Order (3DMM2O).
Recently, she has been awarded with several prizes e.g. Ernst-Haage Chemistry Award 2022, SPIE 3D Printing Award or Young Investigator Award (Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry) and the Advanced Science Young Innovator Award 2024. Her research interests include the development of new functional materials for 3D/4D microprinting.
