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UCLAN PHYSICIST WINS AN INTERNATIONAL ART COMPETITION

A physicist from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has won an international art competition.

Dr Marco Pinna won the first “Where Soft Matter Science Meets Art” competition, conducted by the Soft Matter World network, which is supported by The National Science Foundation of USA.

Hosted by the University of California at Merced, one of the top research universities in the USA, the competition presented the most visually artistic images from peer recognised, world-leading scientific research.

The twelve winning images are featured in the first Soft Matter Calendar 2013 while Marco’s image recently received another acclaim. It is now the main feature image for the new website of the Soft Matter World.

Marco said: “My winning image called…