L’Oreal -UNESCO award for Nicola Spaldin

British born, Nicola Ann Spaldin, FRS is Professor of Materials Theory at the ETH Zurich, known for her pioneering research on multiferroics has been awarded € 100, 000 and the L’Oreal-UNESCO, For Women in Science prize for Europe for her revolutionary research in the field of material sciences.

Nicola, a Cambridge graduate and a PhD from University of California Berkeley also wrote titled Magnetic Materials: Fundamentals and Applications.