Giovanni Drera, with his PhD thesis "Electronic structure of TiO2 thin films and LaAlO3-SrTiO3 heterostructures: the role of titanium 3d1 states in magnetic and transport properties", is winner of the Davide Colosimo prize awarded in 2012. The fulltext of the thesis is available on ArXiv (link in Students->Theses from the main menu)
