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.
The article "Bottom-up approach for the preparation of hybrid nanosheets based on coordination polymers made of metal–diethyloxaloacetate complexes linked by 4,4′-bipyridine" published in CrystEngComm by Ana López-Periago et al. has been considered as HOT ARTICLE in this journal.
One manuscript from Prof. Clara Viñas and her team has been chosen to be highlighted on the ChemistryViews website. The manuscript chosen is "Small-Molecule Kinase-Inhibitors-Loaded Boron Cluster as Hybrid Agents for Glioma-Cell-Targeting Therapy", published in Chemistry-A European Journal, and already qualified as Hot Paper and Frontispiece of the journal.
We are very happy to announce that, out of a total of 57 PhD positions offered by the INPhINIT doctoral fellowship for outstanding early-stage researchers, the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB) will welcome three new PhD students, placing the Institute fourth among the 28 centres that were chosen.
We are very happy to announce that Andrés Gómez and Guillermo de Andrés have been selected as finalists with their project “BRIDG3D: Imprimiendo puentes en 3D” in the XVIII Edition of "Cienca en Acción" in the category "Science and Technology". The FINAL will take place in Izarra Centre in Ermua (Vizcaya, Basque Country) from 6 to 8 October 2017.
We are very happy to announce that Mariona Coll, ICMAB researcher at the Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures group (SUMAN), has been awarded with one of the Research Awards L'Oréal-Unesco "For Women in Science" in the 2017 Call for her project "Nanochemistry: New materials for the efficient conversion of solar energy".
Staff Awards, Women in Science
Anna Roig has been awarded with the Albus Award 2017, one of the Scientific Awards offered by Grifols, the pharmaceutical and chemical multinational company. The Award consists of 50,000 € to carry out the project "Albumin-iron oxide nanocages".
Ignasi Fina, Postoctoral Researcher at the MULFOX group at ICMAB, has been awarded with the First Prize of the Young Researchers Award - Postdoctoral Researchers category, for his contribution to the XXXXI Biennial Meeting of the RSEF (Real Sociedad Española de Física) 2017 and for his excellent research career.
A group of researchers lead by Dr. Clara Viñas, from the Inoganic Mateials & Catalysis Laboratory group at ICMAB, has recently published a paper on Chemistry-A European Journal that has been qualified as Hot Paper and, moreover, it's cover has become a Frontispiece.
Dr. Enric Canadell, Dr. Anna Laromaine, Dr. Jaume Veciana and Dr. Clara Viñas, awarded during 2016-2017 by external institutions for their Scientific Merits, have been acknowledged by the CSIC on July 5, 2017, at the CSIC Auditorium in Madrid.
Dr. José M. Muñoz and Dr. Francesca Leonardi, from the NANOMOL group, have been granted with a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship to continue their postdoctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Marta Mas-Torrent.
Manuel Souto has won the first runner-up doctorate NANOMOLMAT 2016 award, granted by the Specialized Group in Nanoscience and Molecular Materials (NANOMATMOL) from the RSEQ and RSEF, to the best PhD theses of 2016.
Imma Moros participated in September-October 2016 at the VII edition of the "Management and Direction Formation Course" in Madrid, organized by the CSIC.
The association Mujeres & Cía has revealed, on June 21 in Madrid, the list of the most influential women talents of Spain. Among them there are athletes, businesswomen, politicians, journalists, and a researcher from ICMAB: Anna Laromaine.
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).
Last night, on May 24, Xavier Obradors received the Ambassador Award from the Regió 7 daily journal. Neus Munté, Minister of Presidency and government spokesperson, delivered the award.
Prof. Josep Fontcuberta was nominated IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer during 2016. During all this time he has visited more than 56 cities across the 4 continents and has given 60 seminars on "The magnetism of oxides".
On April 22, Dr. Jaume Veciana received a Mention of Honor from the current President of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, during the celebration of the X Anniversary of the Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery “Jesus Usón” for his commitment, effort and dedication in the creation of the Singular Scientific Technological Infrastructures (ICTS) NANBIOSIS, in collaboration with the Center for Biomedical Research Center in Bioingeneering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN).
Enric Canadell, Research Professor at the Materials and Theory Simulation Group, has been awarded by the University of Rennes 1 with the title Doctor Honoris Causa for his excellence research and the partnership he created with Rennes 1 laboratories. The ceremony was held on 31 March 2017.
The UAB-CIE (International Excellence Campus) Sphere celebrated the 10 years of the European Research Council (ERC) with the event “ERC: Challenges and Opportunities”, held at the CRAG Auditorium on March 30, 2017. ICMAB has now 9 ERC funded projects, 4 of them from 2016. The ERC researchers are Marta Mas, who participated as speaker in the event, Núria Aliaga, Mariano Campoy, Agustín Mihi, Alexander Ponrouch, Teresa Puig, Massimiliano Stengel and Gerard Tobias.
From now on Anna May Masnou is the new Communication & Outreach Officer at ICMAB. Anna holds a PhD in Materials Science and Technology and is currently studying a postgraduate course in Science Communication.
Ha salido publicado el Ranking Web de Centros de Investigación correspondiente a enero de este año en el que la web del ICMAB sube del decimotercero al cuarto puesto de un total de 139 webs de institutos del CSIC
Los años 2015 y 2016 han traído un gran número de premios y reconocimientos a las investigadores de nuestro centro. Enhorabuena de nuevo a todas ellas!!.
On January 1, Susan Trolier-McKinstry (The Pennsylvania State University) assumed the presidency of the Materials Research Society (MRS) for 2017, after serving as vice president/president-elect for 2016. She succeeded Kristi S. Anseth (University of Colorado Boulder), who now serves MRS as immediate past president.
During 2016, as a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society, Josep Fontcuberta has delivered 60 talks in 56 research centers and universities and he has visited 56 different cities around four continents.
El cubo de octasilsesquioxano decorado con 8 metalacarboranos se presenta como una molécula que gracias a sus propiedades únicas puede resultar un material versátil para diferentes aplicaciones como sensores, catalizadores y aplicaciones biomédicas.
Nora Ventosa, investigadora de l'ICMAB, és la vice-presidenta de la nova Junta Directiva de la Societat Catalana de Química (SCQ)
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El programa Consolidator del Consejo Europeo de Investigación, destinado a afianzar equipos de excelencia, ha otorgado 47 millones de euros a 24 proyectos científicos en España. La convocatoria coloca al país en el quinto puesto de los que más becas de este tipo han recibido en 2016, por detrás de Reino Unido, Dinamarca, Francia, y Holanda.
• Three researchers of the ICMAB-CSIC have achieved the ERC Consolidator Grant, two of them with projects dedicated to electronics and the third one with biomedical applications.
El Professor Carles Miravitlles de l’ICMAB, ingressarà com a Acadèmic a la Reial Acadèmia de Farmàcia de Catalunya. L’acte se celebrarà el proper 21 de Novembre a les 19:00h.
Rosa Palacín va guanyar ahir la plaça de Professora d’Investigació en el procés selectiu per a ingrés, pel sistema de Promoció Interna, a l’escala de Professors d’Investigació dels Organismes Públics d’Investigació.
Anna Roig va guanyar ahir la plaça de Professora d’Investigació en el procés selectiu per a ingrés, pel sistema de Promoció Interna, a l’escala de Professors d’Investigació dels Organismes Públics d’Investigació.
L’article on s’explica el mètode SIESTA ha estat escollit en primer lloc dins el recull d’articles més importants publicats a la sèrie de revistes Journal of Physics de l’Institute of Physics.
Aquest guardó, que es va concedir també a altres membres d'aquest òrgan, es va entregar durant l'última reunió del SAB el 10 i 11 d'Octubre.
En la foto, de izda a dcha: Prof. Philippe M. Fauchet, Vanderbilt Univ., Prof. Eberhard Umbach, KIT, Prof. Xavier Obradors Berenguer, ICMAB-CSIC, Prof. Alan Lindsay Greer, Univ. of Cambridge
