Our ball ambassador 2018 is scientist of the year 2018! We congratulate Nuno Maulide on this honour awarded by the Club of Educational and Science Journalists. Since 2013 Maulide (in this picture on the Red Carpet 2018 next to ball organiser Oliver Lehmann) is Professor for Organic Chemistry at the University of Vienna. As a member of the Young Academy which is part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, he was already awarded with a second ERC grant in 2015, the most prestigious research fellowship by the European Union. Additionally, he has earned merits for the Children’s University Vienna and as a pianist. He is being honored as an excellent science communicator by Austria’s science journalist.
Nuno Maulide’s message as a ball ambassador 2018.