2023: Qiang Zhu is the recipient of the Best Poster Award at the 11th Colloquium Chemiometricum Mediterraneum, 27-30 June 2023, for contribution “Quality prediction with sequential-orthogonalized PLS: an explorative method to capture process topology”, co-authored by P. Facco, Z. Zhao, and M. Barolo.
2021: Francesco Destro is selected as Finalist for the Young Author Award for paper “Quality-by-Control of continuous drug substance isolation: study on a novel unit for integrated filtration-drying”, co-authored by S. Coleman, P. Firth, A. Barton, M. Barolo, and Z.K. Nagy, presented at ADCHEM2021, June 13-16 2021.
2020: Gabriele Bano, Riccardo De Luca, Fabrizio Bezzo and Max Barolo are awarded as runners-up in the “PSE Model-Based Innovation Prize” for the paper: G. Bano, R. De-Luca, E. Tomba, A. Marcelli, F. Bezzo, M. Barolo (2020). Primary drying optimization in pharmaceutical freeze-drying: a multi-vial stochastic modeling framework. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 59, 5056−5071.
2014: Federico Galvanin, Max Barolo, and Fabrizio Bezzo are awarded the “PSE Model-Based Innovation Prize” for the paper: F. Galvanin, M. Barolo, R. Padrini, S. Casonato, F. Bezzo (2014). A model-based approach to the automatic diagnosis of Von Willebrand disease. AIChE J., 60, 1718-1727.
2013: Best poster award for paper: Ottavian, M., M. Barolo, S. García-Muñoz (2013). Multivariate image and texture analysis for film-coated tablets elegance assessment. In: Proc. DYCOPS 2013 – 10th International Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems (M. Henson and G. Pannocchia, Eds.), Mumbai (India), December 18-20, 331-336.
2010: Paper “Zamboni, A., N. Shah, F. Bezzo (2009). Spatially explicit static model for the strategic design of future bioethanol production systems. 1. Cost minimization. Energy Fuels, 23, 5121-5133” is selected for the ACS Publications Biofuels Virtual Issue.
2009: Federico Galvanin, Max Barolo and Fabrizio Bezzo are awarded as runners-up in the “PSE Model-Based Innovation Prize” for the paper: Galvanin, F., M. Barolo and F. Bezzo (2009). Online model-based redesign of experiments for parameter estimation in dynamic systems. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 48, 4415-4427.
2008: Max Barolo is the co-recipient of the IFAC/Elsevier “Journal of Process Control Application Paper Prize” for the best paper published in the period 2005-2008: Zamprogna, E., M. Barolo and D. E. Seborg (2005). Optimal Selection of Soft Sensor Inputs for Batch Distillation Columns using Principal Component Analysis. J. Process Control, 15, 39-52.
2006: Fabrizio Bezzo is the recipient first prize in the “Regione Veneto Innovation Regional Award” for the paper: Computational issues in hybrid multizonal/computational fluid dynamics models. AIChE J., 51, 1169-1177.
CAPE-Lab students’ awards
2024: AIDIC (Italian Association of Chemical Engineering) Award for best Italian Master’s Theses: 2nd prize awarded to Edoardo Tamiazzo for his Thesis: “Enhancing the understanding of CHO cell culture metabolic traits through integrated first-principle modelling and data-based parameter estimation”.
2024: Francesco Destro is the recipient of the 2024 EFCE (European Federation of Chemical Engineering) Excellence Award” for outstanding PhD Thesis. The title of his Thesis is “Digitalizing pharmaceutical development and manufacturing: advanced mathematical modeling for operation design, process monitoring and process control”.
2023: AIDIC (Italian Association of Chemical Engineering) Award for best Italian PhD Theses: 2nd prize awarded to Francesco Destro for his Thesis: “Digitalizing pharmaceutical development and manufacturing: advanced mathematical modeling for operation design, process monitoring and process control”.
2020: AIDIC (Italian Association of Chemical Engineering) Award for best Italian Master’s Theses: 3rd prize awarded to Francesco Destro for his Thesis “Development of a phenomenological model of an adsorption process for capturing CO2 from air”.
2019: Best poster award to Francesco Destro for research “A hybrid methodology for process monitoring” presented at GRICU congress, Palermo (Italy), 1-3 July 2019.
2018: Klaus Fischer Prize for academic excellence – category “Innovation in processes, plants and services for the digitalization of industrial production” awarded to Gabriele Bano for Master’s Thesis “State estimation techniques for on-line model adaption: a case study in thermal cracking”.
2016: AIDIC (Italian Association of Chemical Engineering) Award for best Italian Master’s Theses: 2nd prize awarded to Luigi Bosa for his Thesis “Development and identification of a pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics model of warfarin therapy”.
2016: Klaus Fischer Prize for academic excellence – category “Management and leadership: innovation models and methods in modern enterprises” awarded to Federico d’Amore for Master’s Thesis “Bioethanol and bioelectricity for sustainable transport: design and economic optimization of production supply chains”.
2016: Ing. Federico D’Amato Prize – category “Renewable energy” awarded to Federico d’Amore for Master’s Thesis “Bioethanol and bioelectricity for sustainable transport: design and economic optimization of production supply chains”.
