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Azzopardi wins ENLIGHT Impact Award

12 June 2024

During the 2nd edition of the ENLIGHT Impact Awards, George Azzopardi won one of six Impact Awards for his project ‘Enhancing National and Cross-Border Security: Automatic detection of Face Morphing Attacks’. The ENLIGHT Impact Awards recognize research projects with significant societal impact. University of Groningen colleague, Sander van Lanen, took home another Impact Award.

The ENLIGHT Impact Awards took place on June 11, in Bilbao. The University of Groningen is a member of the ENLIGHT European University.

George Azzopardi, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

“I am very happy to receive the ENLIGHT Impact Award. It is truly an honor to have our work recognized by such a prestigious alliance. I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to my postdoc, Guru Bennabhaktula, and my collaborators, Bas Timmermans and Kyra Bekman, from RDW (Dutch Driving Authority), which is financing our research project. Additionally, I want to thank the ENLIGHT team for the wonderful event. For me, making an impact with research for the benefit of society is very motivating. ”

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George Azzopardi 6th from the left. (Photo: Fernando Gómez Larrea, University of Basque Country - UPV / EHU)
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