Giulia Acconcia was awarded the Young Investigator Award at the international Photonics West 2020 conference (San Francisco, CA, USA). Her article entitled "Fast and compact time-correlated single photon counting system for high-speed measurement with low distortion" was selected as the best paper by the jury.

Since 2007 PicoQuant GmbH has been awarding the "Young Investigator Award" to the best work presented at the conference on "Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Superresolution Imaging" during the Biomedical Optics Symposium BiOS of SPIE Photonics West.