Maria Gulisano and Rossella Santonocito
Now Rossella Santonocito and Maria Gulisano will compete, together with twenty-two other finalists, for the pass to the international final of FameLab, in which the only Italian winner will compete with competitors from all over the world, which will take place next November.
During the Etna stage, the public – made up of students from the IIS Marconi-Mangano of Catania, the “Vittorini” high school of Lentini and the Principe Umberto di Savoia scientific high school of Catania – awarded the “Who was the best?” prize. to Gianluca Cannata.
Precisely Gianluca Cannata, researcher at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, with Pollock-style economicstook the lowest step of the podium.
The other finalists in the race were Vera Pecorinodoctoral student of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, with the talk Influence inference, Michele Ricuperoresearcher at Di3A, with Not just perfumes! Essential oils for plant defense, Alice BarbonPhD student in Nuclear Physics with Smashopolis, Giorgio Gusellaresearcher at Di3A, with It’s the dose that makes the poisonAnd Juliano Rezende Mudadu SilvaPhD at Di3A with Poo and Pee? Plant a Banana Tree!
«I am very happy and I didn’t expect to win this competition. Now I would like to surprise the audience in the final with my sympathy since it worked. I’ll try,” she said excitedly Rossella Santonocito. «I am very happy to have reached the final and now I expect myself to bring a new talk with a topic that will please and excite the public in an effective and simple way», she added Maria Gulisano.
The finalists of Famelab Catania 2024
Before selection, Barbara Negritechnologist manager of the Italian Space Agency, gave a presentation entitled Space exploration: the search for life in the Universe. They also intervened during the final Alessia Tricomi of the Sicilian Center for Nuclear Physics and Structure of Matter, Isabella Pagano of the INAF Observatory of Catania, Diana Carbone of the Infn National Laboratories of the South, e Alessandro Pluchinocoordinator of the Catania Scientific Degree Plan.
Supporting the University of Catania in the pre-selections (which took place on 15 April with ten participants) and the selection were also the Cnr – Institute for microelectronics and microsystems, the Catania Scientific Degree Plan, Infn Catania, Infn Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Inaf Observatory of Catania, the Sicilian Center for Nuclear Physics and Structure of Matter, the Young Minds Project (European Physical Society), Catania section, and the Scientific and Ecological Minds Union (SEMU).
