2022 EPS condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize for Manuel Bibes
Manuel Bibes did part of his PhD at ICMAB with Josep Fontcuberta and is still a great collaborator of many of our researchers. Congratulations!
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Awards
The Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites Group: "Collaborator of the year" of the Barraquer Institute
The General Assembly of the Barraquer Institute has named the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites (NN) Group, led by Anna Roig, "Collaborator of the year".
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ICMAB Communication & Outreach Office is recognized as UCC+i by the FECYT
Being a Unit of Scientific Culture and Innovation (UCC+i) allows us to be part of the Spanish UCC+i network. We are the second CSIC center in Catalunya belonging to this network.
ICMAB Awards, Outreach & Dissemination
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The Winter 2021 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics is awarded to M. Pilar López Sancho. Congratulations!
María Pilar López Sancho, researcher at the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid, received the award from the European Physical Society.
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M. Rosa Palacín awarded with the Miguel Catalán-Paul Sabatier SCF award
The SCF and RSEQ award is in recognition of her research career in the field of Li-ion and Na-ion batteries.
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Clara Viñas receives the SCQ research award for her excellent scientific career
The award comes from the Societat Catalana de Química (SCQ) for her excellent scientific career in the area of chemistry.
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Chiral materials team win Royal Society of Chemistry's prestigious Horizon Prize
An international team of scientists have been named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Materials Chemistry Division Horizon Prize, celebrating the most exciting chemical science taking place today.
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Teresa Puig awarded with the "Gent de Terrassa" prize by Diari de Terrassa
Diari de Terrassa awards Teresa Puig, ICMAB researcher from Terrassa, in its first edition.
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NANBIOSIS renews its accreditation as Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS)
One of NANBIOSIS' units (U6) is at ICMAB and is devoted to "Biomaterials processing and Nanostructuring Unit",with Scientific Director ICMAB researcher Nora Ventosa.
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Three ICMAB Researchers become Research Professors in last CSIC Call
Marta Mas-Torrent, Nora Ventosa and Mariano Campoy-Quiles are the latest ICMAB Researchers to access this position.
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Xavier Obradors, new Editor-in-Chief of the Superconductivity News Forum
“I am honored to take the responsibility of continuing the endeavor to promote a dynamic SNF” says ICMAB Director.
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ISO 9001:2015 Quality Certification for the Soft Scientific and Technical Service at ICMAB and Unit 6/Nanbiosis
The aim of the quality certification obtained is to ensure the quality of the service provided and to continue with its improvement and extension to future services.
The Scientific and Technical Service for the characterization of nano and biomaterials, the Soft Lab, run by the Nanomol Research Unit of the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB, CSIC), and which is part of Unit 6 of the ICTS Nanbiosis, and CIBER-BBN, aims to offer characterization services of micro- and nanostructured soft molecular materials to the entire scientific community that requires them.
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Lídia Ballell awarded with the Best Symposium Talk at the SCQ Young Researchers Meeting
The "XII Trobada de Joves Investigadors dels Països Catalans" of the Societat Catalana de Química, SCQ (Catalan Chemical Society) took place in Girona on 24-26 January 2022.
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ICMAB Researcher Kasper Moth-Poulsen elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
The IVA gave Kasper Moth-Poulsen this distinction at the end of 2021.
Appointments, Breaking News, timeline
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Five UAB PhD Extraordinary Awards go to ICMAB graduates
This honor is given by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona to remarkable PhDs.
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Alejandro De Sousa & Nerea González receive Best Poster Awards at ElecMol 2021
The two members of the NANOMOL Group received their recognitions in Lyon, France.
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Congratulations! ICMAB is the first H2020 CSIC Institute
- Press Links:
- El CSIC es la tercera institución europea con más proyectos de investigación financiados por el programa Horizonte 2020 (Sanidad, 10 Jan 2022)
- El CSIC, tercera institución en número de proyectos del programa europeo de I+D+I Horizonte 2020 (Siglo XXI, 7 Jan 2022)
- CSIC, tercera institución en número de proyectos obtenidos de Horizonte 2020 (Agencia EFE, 7 Jan 2022)
- El CSIC, tercera institución europea en número de proyectos obtenidos del programa de I+D+i Horizonte 2020 (Cienciaplus, 7 Jan 2022)
ICMAB is number one of the entire CSIC in securing funding from the H2020 European Research and Innovation Framework Programme. It represents 8 % of the total CSIC H2020 funding and 49 % of the Materials Area. In total, 4 CSIC Institutes in Catalunya are among the top 6.
ICMAB Awards, Breaking News, Press Review
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CIBER-BBN awards Eduardo Pérez del Río for his work on 3D materials for immunotherapy
ICMAB Researcher Eduardo Pérez del Río, from the Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials (NANOMOL) Group, has been awarded for one of the 4 best publications by young researchers of 2020, according to CIBER-BBN, an association of 45 research groups of excellence in the fields of bioengineering, biomatrials and biomedicine.
Staff Awards, Breaking News, timeline
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We welcome back David Amabilino at ICMAB
"I've had a tremendously warm welcome here on my return, and I'd like to thank everyone for their friendship. It's fantastic to be here again with such a great team of people across all levels in the ICMAB"
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ICREA Researcher Kasper Moth-Poulsen joins ICMAB with an ERC project on new materials for thermal regulation
“The ERC project PHOTHERM seeks to fundamentally change how we generate heating and cooling by developing a new class of materials that capture, store, and release both solar and ambient heat.”
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M. Rosa Palacín awarded with the International Battery Association (IBA) Research Award
The ICMAB Deputy Director and Researcher, M. Rosa Palacín, receives this award for her significant contributions to battery research. The award comes in the context of the 2021 International Battery Association (IBA) Annual Meeting which will be celebrated on 24-29 October 2021 in Xiamen, China, an event that will bring together experts in the fields of electrochemistry, materials chemistry and energy chemistry, mathematical science and other battery related fields.
ICMAB Researcher M. Rosa Palacín, from the Solid State Chemistry (SSC) Group receives the IBA Research Award for her outstanding contributions and advances in electrochemical energy conversion and storage research.
Staff Awards, Breaking News, timeline
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Anna Solé, winner at the GEFES Research Awards for Undergraduate Students 2021 for her work in neouromorphic computing
The award is given by The Condensed Matter Physics Division-GEFES of the Real Sociedad Española de Física.
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Clara Viñas becomes a member of the Academia Europaea
ICMAB Researcher Clara Viñas joins the organization in celebration of her outstanding achievements as a researcher in the area of Chemistry.
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Jaume Veciana receives recognition to his scientific career from the SCQ
The award comes from the Societat Catalana de Química (SCQ) for his excellent scientific career in the area of chemistry.
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Sergi Riera-Galindo returns to ICMAB with a Beatriu de Pinós grant
After spending 3 years in Sweden, the researcher is joining the NANOMOL Research Unit at ICMAB as a postdoctoral researcher.
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Sohini Sinha, best Poster Prize at the UAB PhD in Chemistry Doctoral Workshop 2021 for her presentation on luminescent systems for imaging
Sohini Sinha’s presentation and poster were awarded on the 10th edition of the UAB Chemistry Doctoral Workshop 2021 with a distinguished diploma.
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Pablo Guardia and Raphael Pfattner awarded with a Ramón y Cajal grant #RyC
Two ICMAB researchers have been granted with a Ramón y Cajalgrant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Staff Awards, Appointments, timeline
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ICMAB researcher Can Onur Avci is awarded the 2021 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Magnetism
The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Young Scientist Prize in the field of Magnetism is awarded annually to one scientist for groundbreaking theoretical or experimental work on fundamental or applied magnetism.
Staff Awards, Breaking News, timeline
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Ivan Caño awarded with the IEC Sant Jordi award for his Master's project
Ivan Caño carried out his Master's project in the field of free-standing oxides for photovoltaic applications at ICMAB.
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The project 'Las científicas cuentan', best didactic resource at the International Biennial of Scientific Cinema
Marta Mas-Torrent and Teresa Puig, ICMAB ERC grantees, participated in this project, coordinated by the Delegation of CSIC in Brussels.
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ICMAB’s Communication & Outreach Officer Anna May becomes the new Vicepresident of the ACCC
The main association for scientific communication in Catalunya welcomes its new Vicepresident!
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ICMAB Researcher Núria Crivillers joins the Young Academy of Europe
The organization offers a younger point of view on science and science policy.
The Young Academy of Europe is an organization that brings together young scientists and scholars from all parts of Europe that have outspoken views about science and science policy. It’s a bottom-up organization that develops networking activities, as well as advocacy, science policy and scientific exchanges.
Appointments, Breaking News, timeline
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The "Matheroes" project selected as an innovative action by FECYT
We are happy to announce that FECYT has selected the "Matheroes: Supermaterials, the heroes of the future" project to be part of the eighth edition of the catalog of "Innovative practices in scientific culture".
The "Innovative practices in scientific culture" catalog includes a selection of activities that FECYT (Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología) has considered as unique in science outreach and science communicatin. It includes innovative and high quality actions that highlight for some of their aspects: their new formats, the strategic objectives they pursue, the specific public they are aimed at, their high impact on the participants, the invomvement of scientific and non-scientific agents, to name a few.
ICMAB Awards, Breaking News, Outreach & Dissemination
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New SCN2 Direction Board with two ICMABers: Pamela Machado and Jordi Floriach Clark
- Título Artículo: New SCN2 Direction Board with two ICMABers: Pamela Machado and Jordi Floriach Clark
Pamela Machado, ICMAB PhD fellow, is the new President of the Catalan Society of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (SCN2), and Jordi Floriach Clark, ICMAB MSc fellow, is the new Communication Manager. They both start this new role in the SCN2 with a lot of enthusiasm and exciting future plans!
Appointments, Breaking News, timeline
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Nanomol Group renews the TECNIO certification for the next four years
The Nanomol Group has renewed the TECNIO certification, which accredits the Reserach Group as a Technology Developer Organization for the period 2020-2023. The TECNIO certification is created by the Government of Catalonia, through ACCIÓ.
The TECNIO certification supports the most qualified agents involved in technology transfer processes, allows companies to access advanced R&D and develop new products and services, and increases the scope of technology projects by finding the most suitable technology partners & suppliers.
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"Nanocellulose patches to treat corneal wounds" NN group project finalist at Expoquimia 2020
The project "Nanocellulose Patches to Treat Corneal Wounds", from ICMAB researchers at the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites (NN) Group, Irene Anton, Anna Laromaine and Anna Roig, and the Barraquer Ophthalmology Centre, became finalist in the Expoquimia Award in Biotechnology R&D&I 2020. Congrats!
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Leonardo Scarabelli granted with a "la Caixa" Junior Leader Fellowship
We are very happy to announce that Leonardo Scarabelli, ICMAB postdoctoral researcher at the Nanopto Group, has been granted with a Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellowship from La Caixa Foundation, within the Marie Curie Actions Horizon 2020.
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Lídia Ballell, Poster Prize at the SCN2 II Annual Conference of Nanomedicine
Lídia Ballell, PhD fellow doing her research between the Nanomol Group at ICMAB and the company Nanomol Technologies, won the Poster Prize award at the SCN2 II Annual Conference of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology celebrated on 19 November 2020 and focused on the latest advances on nanobiomedicine. Lídia Ballell's poster was entitled "Delos nanovesicles for drug delivery: an example of reformulation of a protein to treat complex wounds".
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Artur Romanov awarded at the Applied Superconducivity Conference 2020
The Applied Superconductivity Conference 2020 conference awarded Artur Romanov, PhD researcher at the SUMAN group, on 5 November 2020, the third prize in the materials section of the Student Paper Contest and additonally the Alexander Shikov memorial award for design and manufacturing of "LTS and HTS Conductors".
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Mariona Coll and Ignasi Fina awarded with a Leonardo Grant (BBVA) to develop innovative and sustainable scientific projects
Leonardo Grants (BBVA Foundation) are intended to directly support personal projects of cultural researchers and creators in intermediate stages of their career, between 30 and 45 years of age, which are characterized by a highly innovative scientific, technological or cultural production.
Staff Awards, New Projects, Breaking News, timeline
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