Sérgio Luiz Novi Junior won the Grand Prize Capes 2023 at the College of Exact, Technological and Multidisciplinary Sciences with the research “Investigation of functional neuroplasticity in the human brain with near-infrared spectroscopy”. The thesis, defended in 2022, with the Postgraduate Program in Physics at Unicamp, was supervised by Professor Rickson Coelho Mesquita. The award ceremony will take place on December 14th, in Brasília.
The other two winners of the award are Juliano Franco de Moraes, at the College of Life Sciences, and Igor Morais Mariano Rodrigues, at the College of Humanities. The three winning studies were selected from among the 49 authors of previously chosen works, in the first stage of the award.
Each Grand Prize winner receives from Capes (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) a scholarship for a postdoctoral internship at an international institution, for up to 12 months, a certificate and a trophy. Each supervisor will receive R$9 to participate in an international conference and a certificate to be given to the co-supervisors and to the postgraduate program in which the thesis was defended.
The Carlos Chagas Foundation, the non-profit organization Dimensions Sciences (USA), the Serrapilheira Institute and Itaú are partnering with Capes in the award. These institutions will offer additional prizes.
Read the article about the award-winning research published in Jornal da Unicamp:
