During the 18th HAKONE – International Symposium on High Pressure Low-Temperature Plasma Chemistry, held in Abano Terme (Padova, Italy) on September 1 – 6, 2024, the ISTP researcher Giorgio Dilecce was awarded the prestigious “Ulrich Kogelschatz Lecture Award” , with the following motivation: “For his excellent research in the field of diagnostics of non-thermal plasmas