Book of abstracts: 2024 Poster/Talk Sessions. 11th Annual Conference of the Marie Curie Alumni Association, March 14-16, 2024, Milan, Italy

The Annual Conference is a key event in the life of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA). It is a place for members to meet in person, discuss past activities, and plan the community's future directions. It is also a place for the MCAA to connect with its stakeholders and non-MCAA researchers. 

The Annual Conference also hosts poster presentations by conference participants - a space where people can present their research and receive feedback from highly trained experts in a wide range of disciplines. Along with the poster session, in 2024 the MCAA also had a lightning talk session to the conference, where researchers presented their research with three slides in less than three minutes.

This book gathers together the abstracts of the posters and lightning talks presented at the MCAA Annual Conference in Milan, Italy, on 14-16 March 2024. The selected proposals were categorised and divided into different areas, some approximately corresponding to the MSCA scientific panels and other topics of relevance for the Association: Career Development and Sustainable Research Practices. Since the conference was a hybrid event, authors had the possibility to present either in person or online. The posters presented in person included examples from all of the scientific/topical panels. As for the lighting talks, some topics were merged into a single scientific/topical panel or spread over two panels for better organisation.

The final distribution of topics was the following:
CD Career Development
CHE Chemistry
ENG Engineering
ENV Environmental Sciences
ES Environmental Sustainability
HA Humanities and Arts
LIF Life Sciences
PHY Physics
SRP Sustainable Research Practice
SSH Social Sciences
ECO Economics 

Each panel corresponds to a macro-section of this book. Within each macro-section, each page includes an abstract, an image of the poster or graphical abstract, and information about the author(s) and their organisation(s). 

The abstracts collected in this book testify to the wealth of scientific and social interests within the MCAA and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme. The MCAA encourages its members and non-members to submit their posters or talks to future MCAA conferences.