London – The winners of the Italy Made Me 2025 awards were celebrated at the Italian Embassy in London on December 10. The ceremony recognized early-career Italian researchers in the United Kingdom who completed part of their academic training in Italy and achieved outstanding results in fields identified by the European Research Council: Life Sciences, Physical and Engineering Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities.
For 2025, two winners were selected in Life Sciences and Social Sciences and Humanities:
- Life Sciences: Marco De Donatis for Addressing vascular and immunological features of pancreatic cancer lung metastasis and Laura Piovani for Tracing animal evolution through single-cell genomics.
 - Social Sciences and Humanities: Francesca Bellazzi for FunMo: Functionality at the Molecular Scale and Carmen Silvestri for Italian as a Heritage Language in London: An Ethnographic Perspective on Identity and Pedagogy.
Three researchers were awarded in Physical and Engineering Sciences: Andrea Barbiero (Powering the Quantum Internet: High-Performance Semiconductor Photon Sources for Fiber-Based Quantum Networks), Camilla Di Mino (Investigating Molecular Interactions in Model Liquid Systems for Materials Design), and Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli (Fundamental Limits of Variance and Feedback in Stochastic Biological Systems).