Awards

Arnau Bertran: Premi Sant Jordi 2018 from the SCQ-IEC for his bacherlor's thesis

Arnau Bertran Inglada, who did his bachelor's thesis at ICMAB under the supervision of Gerard Tobias (ICMAB, Solid State Chemistry Group) and Àlvar Sánchez (UAB, Physics Dept) has been awarded with the "Premi Sant Jordi 2018" of the Societat Catalana de Química (SCQ-IEC) for his work entitled "Òxid de grafè reduït decorat amb nanopartícules d’òxid de ferro. Síntesi, caracterització i estudi magnètic" (Reduced graphene oxide decorated with iron oxide nanoparticles. Synthesis, characterization and magnetic study).

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24 April 2018

The awards ceremony was on Friday, April 20, 2018, at 12 pm at the Prat de la Riba hall of the IEC (Institut d'Estudis Catalans), chaired by Joandomènec Ros, IEC president, along with Francesca Tur, consellera of Culture, Participation and Sports of the Balearic Islands Government, and Mercè Conesa, president of the Diputació de Barcelona. In total, 54 awards have been granted, for an amount of more than 173,000 €.

Estic molt content d'haver rebut aquest premi. Veure que la dedicació i la feina ben feta acaben essent reconegudes és sempre una motivació addicional per seguir esforçant-se més. - Arnau Bertran

Arnau studied the double degree Physics + Chemistry at the UAB. Currently he is coursing the master in "Advanced Materials Science and Engineering" at Imperial College London (ICL). He did his bachelor's thesis working under the supervision of Gerard Tobias and Àlvar Sánchez in the ICMAB laboratories. Regarding his time at ICMAB he says:

Integrar-me en un grup de recerca durant tot un curs m'ha permès apreciar en primera persona què és fer recerca científica, i confirmar que a això és al que em vull dedicar. A l'ICMAB m'he sentit com un investigador més, i treballant al costat d'altres científics he pogut aprendre sobre molts aspectes pràctics de la ciència al que un no està exposat durant els estudis de grau. Valoro molt positivament el fet d'haver-me pogut enfrontar a un problema real i veure que, a diferència del que acostuma a passar als laboratoris docents, les coses no solen funcionar com un esperava. - Arnau Bertran

We also would like to congratulate the association AMIT-CAT (Associació de Dones Investigadors i Tecnòlogues) for the award "Premi Creu Casas de l’IEC. Dones per canviar el món" to promote women's interest in technology, for their associative initiative and for the project "STEM amb TU" to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics that integrates the gender dimension as a differential fact compared to other similar initiatives. Many researchers from ICMAB are members of this association, including Carmen Ocal, Arantxa González, Anna Roig, Anna Laromaine and Esther Barrena.

The call for 2019 is now open!

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