Soledad Roig Sánchez defended her PhD on "Novel bacterial cellulose materials" in 2021, supervised by Anna Roig and Anna Laromaine from the NN group.
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.
This honor is given by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona to remarkable PhDs.
The two members of the NANOMOL Group received their recognitions in Lyon, France.
Sohini Sinha’s presentation and poster were awarded on the 10th edition of the UAB Chemistry Doctoral Workshop 2021 with a distinguished diploma.
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!
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".
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".
The Societat Catalana de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (SCN2) celebrates the second edition of the Dresselhaus Awards that rewards TFG (Final Degree Projects) presentations about Nanoscience and Nanotechnology research. Deadline extended to 15 January 2021.
Amanda Muñoz, a PhD researcher from the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites (NN) group, joined the Biorender Graphical Abstract challenge with a visualization of her group’s work with C. elegans and nanoparticles. Her figure has become one of the finalists in the contest, and it has already opened new opportunities for learning.
PhD Awards, Outreach publications, timeline
The 12th International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics #HOPV20 was an online conference held beween 26 and 29 May 2020. Enrique Pascual, PhD fellow at the Nanopto Group, received the Best ePoster Content and Discussion award at the Symposium S4 on Organic Solar Cells. His poster was entitled "Towards Photovoltaic Windows: Laser-assisted Fabrication of Semitransparent OPV Modules Based on Non-fullerene Acceptors’". Congratulations!
Manuel Souto, former PhD researcher at the Nanomol Group, has been awarded with the European Award for Doctoral Thesis in Molecular Magnetism (ADocMolMag) call 2019, organised by the European Institute of Molecular Magnetism, for his PhD Thesis "Multifunctional Materials based on TTFPTM dyads: towards new Molecular Switches, Conductors and Rectifiers" carried out at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Congratulations, Manuel!
Four ICMAB graduates have been awarded by the UAB with the PhD Extraordinary Award for their doctoral thesis, developed during the period 2016-2017: Bernhard Dörling in the field of Physics, Laura González and Magdalena Kierkowicz in the field of Materials Science, and Elena Oleshkevich in the field of Chemistry. Congratulations!
The Societat Catalana de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (SCN2) held its First Annual Congress of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology on Saturday, 16 November 2019. The event took place at Casa Elizalde in Barcelona and focused on Energy harvesting, Environment and Sustainable Development. Martí Gibert, PhD fellow at NANOPTO group won the poster contest with his work on “Near Infrared Organic Photodetectors based on Enhanced Charge Transfer State Absorption by Photonic Architectures”. Congratulations!
Pol Sallés has been awarded with a "la Caixa" INPhINIT (MSCA COFUND) grant to come to the ICMAB to start his PhD Thesis with researcher Mariona Coll in the field of perovskites for solar cells. Congratulations, Pol!
Judit Tomsen, PhD fellow at the Nanomol group, was awarded with the best oral presentation at the European Students Colloid Conference (ESC-2019), that took place in Varna (Bulgaria) on 18-22 June 2019.
Three ICMAB graduates have been awarded by the UAB with the PhD Extraordinary Award for their doctoral thesis, developed during the period 2015-2016: Justo Cabrera in the field of Chemistry, and María de la Mata Fernández and Manuel Souto in the field of Materials Science. The awards ceremony will take place on November 2018. Congratulations!
On 3 July 2018, CaixaForum Barcelona hosted the ceremony to deliver the INPhINIT "la Caixa" doctorate program fellowships.
Five ICMAB graduates from the PhD programme in Materials Science received the PhD Extraordinary Award for their doctoral thesis developed during the period 2014-2015. The award ceremony took place on May 18, 2018, at 6 pm, at the Hotel Campus UAB. Laura Cabana Jiménez, Pedro López-Aranguren Oliver, Nerea Murillo Cremaes, David Pesquera Herrero and Albert Queraltó López were recognised for their PhD dissertations.
Laia Soler, PhD researcher at the Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN) group, won the Best Young Researchers Presentation at the European Conference on Applied Superconductors 2017 (EUCAS) in the section "Materials".
Màrius Tarrés Schüler, who did his PhD in the Inorganic Materials and Catalysis Laboratory, at ICMAB, under the supervision of Prof. Francesc Teixidor, has been awarded with the PhD special prize award (Premi Extraordinari de Doctorat) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).
Jose Muñoz, who did his PhD at the UAB, and is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the NANOMOL group at ICMAB, under the supervision of Dr. Marta Mas and Dr. Núria Crivillers, has been awarded with the PhD special prize award (Premi Extraordinari de Doctorat) of the UAB.
Jordi Martínez, from the SUMAN group, has been awarded with the second prize for his poster, abstract and oral presentation entitled "Uncovering the surface chemistry of LnF3 nanoparticles" during the "Jornades Doctorals 2017" organized by the Chemistry Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).
Título: "Interfacial structure and microstructural evolution of solution-derived dissimilar oxide nanostructures. Implications on their .functional properties"
Doctors de l'ICMAB després de lliurament de Premis Extraordinaris de Doctorat
Premis Extraordinaris de doctorat de Ciencia de Materials dels cursos 2008-2009, 2009-2010 i 2010-2011
El pasado 25 de abril se celebró la primera reunión del C. Rector del CSIC, tras la toma de posesión del nuevo Presidente Emilio Lora Tamayo.
The "Extraordinary Award of the PhD in Physics" from the Autonomous University of Barcelona for the period 2008/2009 was granted to Dr. Juan S. Reparaz. He performed and defended his PhD thesis entitled "Optical Properties of Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Nanostructures under High Pressure " at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) under the supervision of Prof. Alejandro R. Goñi and Dr. M. Isabel Alonso. After concluding his PhD thesis he moved to the Berlin Technical University, Germany, as a Post-doctoral Researcher in the group led by Prof. Axel Hoffmann and Prof. Christian Thomsen for a period of two years. Presently, he is back at ICMAB-CSIC, working on different topics of nanoscience & nanotechnology in the Department of Nanostructured Materials.
Dr. Juan S. Reparaz obtained his Master in Physics degree in 2003 at the "Instituto Balseiro" (San C. de Bariloche, Argentina). During this period his research activities focused mainly on "Vortex dynamics in Josephson junction arrays". During his PhD thesis he worked mainly on "High Hydrostatic Pressure Effects in Semiconductor Nanostructures". In particular, he investigated Si1-xGex alloys, Ge/Si quantum dots, CdSe quantum dots, InGaAs/As superlattices, and the pressure dependence of vibrational modes in ZnO substrates. Currently, his main research lines are: i) Optical investigation of semiconductor nanowires and, ii) SiGe alloys as feasible candidates for piezoresistive sensors. To date he has published 26 articles in high impact international journals such as Advanced Functional Materials, Applied Physics Letters, and Physical Review B.
El Premi Extraordinari de Doctorat en Ciència de Materials 2007/08 de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ha estat concedit a la Dra. Ingrid Cañero Infante, que realitzà la seva tesi doctoral a l'Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) sota la direcció del Prof. Josep Fontcuberta i Griñó i del Dr. Florencio Sánchez Barrera. En finalitzar la Tesis, va ser contractada com a investigadora post-doctoral durant 2 anys a la Unitée Mixte CNRS-Thales (Palaiseau, França). Actualment és Professora-Investigadora al laboratori de Structures, Propriétés et Modélisation des Solides de l'Ecole Centrale Paris (França).
La Dra. Ingrid Cañero Infante, en acabar la seva llicenciatura en física per la Universitat de Barcelona en 2003, realitzà una estada d'iniciació a la recerca a l'ICMAB en la que investigà processos de optimització de superfícies de cristalls per al seu ús com a substrats en el dipòsit de capes primes d'òxids funcionals. A partir d'aquest primer contacte amb el laboratori, s'interessà en aprofundir l'estudi de capes primes d'òxids dins del marc d'una tesi doctoral. L'objectiu de la tesis va ser el desenvolupament de materials per a unions túnel magnètiques. El treball es va focalitzar en el creixement de pel·lícules nanomètriques d'elèctrodes La2/3Ca1/3MnO3 sobre substrats amb diferent simetria i composició [SrTiO3(001) i SrTiO3(110)], estudiar el seu paper en les propietats de magnetotransport i estructurals del les capes i com aquestes és modifiquen quan es creix, a sobre, la capa prima aïllant que constituirà la barrera túnel.
Aquest estudi és recollit dins de la tesi "(001) and (110) La2/3Ca1/3MnO3 epitaxial ferromagnetic electrodes: a comparative study", que ha rebut la menció europea de tesi doctoral. Aquesta recerca ha donat fruit a col·laboracions internacionals i nacionals d'alt nivell, i és un treball que l'ha portat a presentar els seus resultats en congressos nacionals (2) i internacionals (9) i a publicar 20 articles científics en revistes d'alt índex d'impacte com "Physical Review B", "Applied Physics Letters" o "Nanotechnology".
La Professora d'Investigació de l'ICMAB, Amparo Fuertes Miquel, ha estat nomenada membre del Comité Editorial del "Journal of Materials Chemistry".
ICMAB researchers, Prof. David Amabilino and Dr. Anna Roig, have earned a place as one of the top 20% of reviewers for "Langmuir".
El Premi Extraordinari de Doctorat en Ciència de Materials 2006/07 de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ha estat concedit a la Dra. Montse Casas Cabanas, que realitzà la seva tesi doctoral a l’ICMAB sota la direcció de la Dra. M. Rosa Palacín i que és actualment Maître de Conferences à l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingenieurs de Caen (França).
La Dra. Montse Casas ja fou mereixedora del premi per a estudiants atorgat per la Societat Catalana de Química l’abril del 2004 pel treball “Estudi i optimització de la matèria activa industrial per a elèctrodes positius en bateries recarregables de níquel”, que posteriorment es completà per donar lloc a la tesi doctoral. La investigació realitzada és un exemple de recerca fonamental aplicada a un problema tecnològic com és la determinació estructural i microestructural de les fases presents en l’elèctrode positiu de les bateries de níquel i la correlació entre defectes, mida de partícula etc i el rendiment electroquímic. Els resultats originals de la tesi han estat publicat en revistes d’alt índex d’impacte en el camp de la ciència de materials i l’electroquímica i la cristal·lografía tals com “Journal of the American Chemical Society”, “Journal of Power Sources” o bé “Journal of Materials Chemistry” i han estat presentats en diversos congressos nacionals (5) i internacionals (6).
La Tesi Doctoral "Regioselectivitat en l'orto-carborà: Mono- i multisubstitució. Clústers de bor en líquids iònics" de n'Albert Vaca Puga, realitzada a l'ICMAB sota la direcció de la Prof Clara Viñas, ha rebut el Premi Extraordinari de Doctorat de Química 2006/07 de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, valorant la quantitat i qualitat de publicacions i comunicacions en congressos basades en resultats originals de la Tesi.
Resultats de la Tesi han estat publicats en revistes d'alt índex d'impacte, tals com "Journal of the American Chemical Society", "Chemistry - A European Journal", "Inorganic Chemistry", "Organometallics" o "Dalton Transactions", així com en congressos nacionals (4) i internacionals (11). Com a mèrits complementaris, una comunicació publicada a "Journal of the American Chemical Society" va ser destacada en revistes de divulgació científica com "Chemical &Engineering News" i "Anales de Química", i, per últim, n'Albert Vaca Puga va ser mereixedor del sisè premi en els "Young Boron Chemist Awards" del congrés internacional "Imeboron XIII. International Conference on Boron Chemistry".
