Hanover – Roberto Mazzoli, a researcher at the University of Turin at the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, was selected by the Italian Cultural Commission for Cultural exchanges between Italy and the United States among the 9 Italian winners for the Academic year 2017/2018. He will spend a six-month period at the laboratory coordinated by Prof. L. R. Lynd at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. During this period, Roberto Mazzoli will work on a research project in the field of metabolic engineering aimed at applying to industrial processes of green refinery. The Fulbright – Research Scholar prize offers Italian researchers and associate professors the opportunity to spend a research stay at US Universities for research projects whose results may benefit the international academic and scientific community. (9colonne)