Professor George Malliaras announced as a 2023 Blaise Pascal Medallist

Pioneer in science and technology of organic electronic materials, Professor George Malliaras, has been recognised with Blaise Pascal Medal.

George Malliaras, who supervises research students on the Connected Electronic and Photonic Systems Centre for Doctoral Training programme, is Prince Philip Professor of Technology and widely considered a founding father of organic bioelectronics.

"I am honoured and humbled by this recognition and credit should go to my group and collaborators who are a constant source of inspiration for me. "

- Professor George Malliaras

The 2023 Blaise Pascal Medallist award recognises his contributions as a pioneer in science and technology of organic electronic materials. He has made significant impacts in a number of areas including: understanding charge injection at metalorganic interfaces; patterning of organic electronic materials; understanding mixed conduction in organic electronic materials; development of mixed semiconductor devices; and the use of organic devices as brain interfaces.

On receiving the Blaise Pascal Medal, Professor Malliaras said: “I am honoured and humbled by this recognition and credit should go to my group and collaborators who are a constant source of inspiration for me.”

Professor Malliaras will be formally presented with the Medal at the Annual Symposium of the EURASC on 23-24 October 2023, in Madrid, Spain.

About the award: https://www.eurasc.eu/leonardo-da-vinci-award-blaise-pascal-medallists-2023/

About Prof George Malliaras: http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/gm603

Read the full article, published by University of Cambridge: http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/pioneer-science-and-technology-organic-electronic-materials-recognised-blaise-pascal-medal

Published: August 2023