Yana Maudens wins FEARS Interdisciplinarity Award
(13-01-2025) Our colleague Yana Maudens has received the Interdisciplinarity Award at the 2024 Research Symposium of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture UGent (FEARS).
Yana won the award with a poster about her doctoral research on the subject "Biomimicry of Reptile Eggshells Based on Electrospun Keratin Membranes". Prof. Karen De Clerck is promotor of the PhD research. It is a collaboration with the UGent EON research group and the STIIMA-CNR group in Biella (Italy) and funded bij FWO Vlaanderen.
Some words from Yana:
This award is particularly meaningful to me, as it highlights the essence of my current PhD research. This recognition is a great motivator as I continue to explore the intersection of materials science and biology. Here’s to a year of collaboration, discovery, and impactful research!