A SINANO Institute Best Paper Award is given in the framework of the European EUROSOI-ULIS Conference.

It is renamed the “Androula Nassiopoulou Best Paper Award” in memoriam to her.


The Sinano Institute sponsors the European EUROSOI-ULIS Conference, which is in the same research area as the research domains of the Sinano Institute. Several Sinano Institute Members are also involved in the Steering and the Programme Committees.

  • A Medal (Sinano Institute/ULIS logos) is given every year to the best EUROSOI-ULIS paper Medal
  • An Award of 300€ is given to the first author of the Best Paper

13- Sinano sponsorship for EUROSOI-ULIS’2023 Androula Nassiopoulou Best Paper Award

2023 Best Paper Award won by Alex Rodríguez-Iglesias (CNM, Barcelona) for his paper ” Micro-thermoelectric generators based on Si enhanced by heat sink integration”
The prize will be given next year during the 10th edition of the Joint EUROSOI-ULIS’2024 Conference in Athens.

12- Sinano sponsorship for EUROSOI-ULIS’2022 Androula Nassiopoulou Best Paper Award

During the 9th edition of the Joint EUROSOI-ULIS’2023 Conference in Tarragona, for the 12th time, the Medal and the Award were given by Francis Balestra, Director of the SINANO Institute, accompanied by Benjamin Iniguez, Chair of this 2023 edition, to Ruben Asanovski, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia for his paper “On the accuracy of the formula used to extract trap density in MOSFETs from 1/f noise”

11- Sinano sponsorship for EUROSOI-ULIS’2021 Androula Nassiopoulou Best Paper Award

During the 8th edition of the Joint EUROSOI-ULIS’2022 Conference, for the 11th time, the Medal and the Award were given by Francis Balestra, Director of SINANO, to C. Valdivieso on behalf of Albert Crespo-Yepes from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the author of “Combined effects of BTI, HCI and OFF-State MOSFETs Aging on the CMOS Inverter Performance” the Best EUROSOI-ULIS’2021 Paper.

10- Sinano sponsorship for EUROSOI-ULIS’2019 Best Paper Award

Gilles Scheen, UCL Louvain has received at UCL, due to the pandemic situation, the prize for the paper:

“Post-process porous silicon for 5G applications”, by Gilles Scheen, Romain Tuyaerts, Martin Rack, Lucas Nyssens, Jonathan Rasson, Jean-Pierre Raskin, Department of Electrical Engineering, ICTEAM institute, UCLouvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

9- Sinano sponsorship for EUROSOI-ULIS’2018 Best Paper Award, Grenoble, France, April 2019

During the 5th edition of the Joint EUROSOI-ULIS’2019 Conference, for the 9th time, the Medal and the Award were given by Enrico Sangiorgi, Director of SINANO, to C. Navarro on behalf of S. Navarro from Univ. Granada, the author of “Evaluation of thin-oxide Z2-FET DRAM cell”, the Best EUROSOI-ULIS’2018 Paper.

8- Sinano sponsorship for EUROSOI-ULIS’2017 Best Paper Award, Granada March 2018

During the 4th edition of the Joint EUROSOI-ULIS’2018 Conference, for the 8th time, the Medal and the Award were given by Valeria Kiltchytska(SiNANO GB member) to L. Gaben from ST the author of “Hydrogen Silsesquioxane Tri-Dimensional Advanced Patterning Concepts for High Density of Integration in sub-7nm Nodes”, the Best EUROSOI-ULIS’2017 Paper.

7- Sinano sponsorship for EUROSOI-ULIS’2016 Best Paper Award, Athens, April 6, 2017

During the 3rd edition of the Joint EUROSOI-ULIS’2017 Conference, for the 7th time, the Medal and the Award were given by Enrico Sangiorgi to C. Navarro from UGR the author of “Reconfigurable field effect transistor for advanced CMOS: Advantages and limitations”, the Best EUROSOI-ULIS’2016 Paper.

6- Sinano sponsorship for EUROSOI-ULIS’2015 Best Paper Award, Vienna, January 26, 2016

During the 2nd edition of the Joint EUROSOI-ULIS’2016 Conference, for the 6th time, the Medal and the Award were given by Enrico Sangiorgi to D. Cutaia from IBM the author of “Fabrication and Analysis of Vertical p-type InAs-Si Nanowire Tunnel FETs”, the Best EUROSOI-ULIS’2015 Paper.

5- Sinano sponsorship for ULIS’2014 Best Paper Award, Bologna, January 27, 2015

During the first edition of the Joint EUROSOI-ULIS’2015 Conference, for the 5th time, the Medal and the Award were given by Enrico Sangiorgi to G.V. Luong the author of “High On-currents with Highly Strained Si Nanowire MOSFETs”, the Best ULIS’2014 Paper.

4- Sinano sponsorship for ULIS’2013 Best Paper Award, Stockholm, April 9, 2014

During ULIS’2014, for the 4th time, the Medal and the Award were given by Enrico Sangiorgi and Francis Balestra to an EPFL’s member, who received the price for S. Rigante, the author of “High-k dielectric FinFETs towards sensing integrated circuits”, the Best ULIS’2013 Paper.

3- Sinano sponsorship for ULIS’2012 Best Paper Award, Warwick, March 20, 2013

During ULIS’2013, for the 3rd time, the Medal and the Award were given by Francis Balestra to Simon Deleonibus, who received the price for R. Coquand, the author of “Scaling of High-/Metal-Gate Trigate SOI Nanowire Transistors down to 10nm width”, the Best ULIS’2012 Paper.

2- Sinano sponsorship for ULIS’2011 Best Paper Award, Grenoble, March 6, 2012

During ULIS’2012, for the 2nd time, the Medal and the Award were given by Francis Balestra to Lars Knoll, the author of “20nm gate length Schottky MOSFETs with ultra thin NiSi/epitaxial NiSi2 source/drain”, the Best ULIS’2011 Paper.

1- Sinano sponsorship for ULIS’2010 Best Paper Award, Cork, March 15, 2011

During ULIS’2011, for the first time, the Medal and the Award were given by Francis Balestra to Siegfried Mantl, who received the price for Sebastian Feste, the author of “Effective mass and I-V characterization of biaxially tensile strained SOI MOSFETs”, the Best ULIS’2010 Paper.