Award

The VisionOttica Award 2025 ceremony

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Dr. Erika Ponzini presents her talk during the VisionOttica Award 2025ceremony Dr. Erika Ponzini was invited as a speaker at the VisionOttica Award 2025 ceremony held in Turin on May 12, where she delivered an engaging talk entitled: “Beyond the Lens: AI in Modern Contact Lens Practice” — a forward-looking insight into how artificial intelligence is transforming contactology.

Now in its 12th edition, the VisionOttica Award celebrates the best theses in Optics and Optometry, highlighting the talent of young graduates and the excellence of education in Italy. Congratulations to all award winners from Padua, Florence and Turin!
Special thanks to VisionOttica for the warm welcome and continued support of research and teaching in our field.

The VisionOttica Award 2024 awardees

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Silvia Tavazzi declares the VisionOttica Award winners during the Uninary Congress "Vision&Digital"Two graduates from the University of Milan-Bicocca ranked first and third in the 11th edition of the VisionOttica Award by Vision Group in collaboration with ALOeO, Albo degli Ottici Optometristi (Federottica) and the Italian universities offering a degree course in Optics and Optometry. A special award was also given to the Degree Course at Milano-Bicocca for advancements in research and development in optics and optometry.

 

Elena Pagetti shows her award certificateFirst place was awarded to Dr. Elena Pagetti for her thesis titled: “Psychometric Evaluation of the Italian Version of the Symptoms Assessment iN Dry Eye – SANDE”.

 

 

Giulia Nero shows her award certificateThird place went to Dr. Giulia Nero for her thesis titled: “Evaluation of Ocular Aberrations in Patients Undergoing Cataract Surgery with EDOF IOL Implantation.”

The VisionOttica Award 2023 awardees

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The three peolple awarded the VisionOttica Award 2023Giulia Garassino and Gianluca Verrenti (from the left), recent graduated at the University of Milano-Bicocca, received the first and second prizes at the Vision Ottica Award 2023

Moreover, the bachelor’s degree in Optics and Optometry was awarded for “recognition for progress in research and development in Optics and Optometry”.

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The XXX Francesco Ferrante National Optometry Award to Prof. Borghesi

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Alessandro Borghesi, professor emeritus of Milano-Bicocca and director of COMiB, was awarded the Francesco Ferrante National Optometry Award, established at the initiative of the family and a group of colleagues of the optometrist who died in 1986.

Professor Borghesi, who was the first in Italy to promote the activation of a graduate course in Optics and Optometry (established since 2001 at the University of Milano-Bicocca), has been coordinating the activities of COMiB since 2015.

 

 

OptiStudent Awards

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The FORCE project continues and changes its name. Since 2022 it is called OptiStudent Awards.

Students enrolled during the year 2022 are eligible to apply. Works that will be considered must concern soft contact lenses or the anterior segment of the eye. The works presented will be evaluated by a Panel of experts external to the University.

All abstracts (both in English and in Italian) of students/graduates of the University of Milano-Bicocca must be sent to silvia.tavazzi@unimib.it and/or fabrizio.zeri@unimib.it before 10 April 2023. Only after having received a confirmation reply, the student/graduate can consider the submission of the abstract as successful.