Due to the expansion and the pandemic situation of COVID-19, and respecting the authorities and for our own responsibility, the ICMAB is declared from Monday, 16 March 2020, and until Sunday, 29 March 2020 (minimu), a CSIC Institute of Restricted Access. The basic services will continue to be provided, but the presence of staff in the center is minimized in order to restrict the movement of people to its maximum.
The decisions made by the Crisis Cabinet, following the CSIC instruction for the application of the State of Alarm at the CSIC, and having listened to the proposals of the research groups, administration staff and scientific services, are summarized as follows:
The members are: Xavier Obradors (Director), Joan Ricard Ibáñez (Manager), M. Rosa Palacín (Deputy Director), Oriol Sabater (Head of Maintenance), Joan Figuerola (Head of IT) and Carles Frontera (Head of Scientific Services).
Any notifications you find relevant may be emailed to their respective emails.
Reservations that were made have been canceled. The equipment has been shut down when possible and in cases of additional complexity the equipment is not stopped, but put into maintenance or stand-by mode (SEM) and its technicians or maintenance staff take care of them.
The Maintenance Staff will also be available permanently and can be contacted by email.
The Heating Service will stop for the duration of this shutdown.
The cleaning service is reduced to 2 days per week with a sharp reduction in staff and hours. Weekend access is permanently closed.
It is necessary, however, to contact the Crisis Cabinet to notify and detail the conditions and ensure that safety regulations are complied with.
The IT Staff will maintain a telematic guard service and if necessary, one of them will be moved to solve the problem that may arise. This service will send a reminder of the tools available and how to use them.
Emails will be sent by the Direction team when new relevant information is available.
We therefore recommend to stay and work from home. People should contact their supervisors or responsibles and keep in close contact with them.
We have to inform the authorities if there are positive COVID-19 cases in our Institute.
PhD Thesis Defenses will be "behind the doors", by videoconference with the jury members, and with no public.
We thank everyone for their efforts and understanding of the difficulties that may arise. Needless to say, we think that the ICMAB has a moral and civic duty to contribute, as far as possible, to combat this collective challenge that we must combine with our obligations as a Research Center.
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Download here the CSIC Instruction for the application of the State of Alarm at the CSIC
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