Continuing the Strategic Vision for the Severo Ochoa programme FUNMAT (“Smart FUNctional MATerials for social grand challenges”), the ICMAB opened the call for the third edition of the Frontier Interdisciplinary Projects (FIP) earlier this year 2018. Out of all the proposals submitted, 9 projects in different fields have been granted.
The PhD Researcher Raúl Díaz Torres from the FunNanoSurf group will defend his PhD thesis on Friday, 20 July at 11 am:
Dr. Wenjie Qian defended her PhD thesis on “Preparation and processing of molecular materials with optoelectronic properties”on Tuesday, 17 July 2018 at 11 am. Congratulations Wenjie!
Three ICMAB researchers have been granted with a Ramon y Cajal grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.
The Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC) hosted the XXX IEC Chemistry Debate “Connect the Materials Science with the young students”. Susagna Ricart and Arántzazu González took part in the event, which was held from 4 to 7 pm at the amazing “Sala Prat de la Riba”.
The “Societat Catalana de Química” (SCQ-IEC) organizes every year the contest on the best research chemistry projects for secondary school students (Premis als Treballs de Recerca de Batxillerat dins l’Àmbit de la Química). The award for the finalist students is a two-week scientific internship in a Catalan research center or university during July 2018.
The awards ceremony took place on May 9, 2018, at the IEC, and was introduced by a debate on “Connecting materials science to the young students and adults” by our researchers Susagna Ricart and Arántzazu González, and followed by the awards delivery and the talks of the winners.
On Friday, 16 March 2018, the secondary school INS Mercè Rodoreda (Hospitalet de Llobregat) celebrated their “IV Scientific Day” (IV Jornada Científica) with scientific activities for their students, from 1st ESO to 2nd BTX. Núria Aliaga, ICREA Research Professor at ICMAB, was one of the invited speakers. She had the big challenge of talking about science to “Arts and Humanities” 3rd and 4th ESO students.
On Wednesday, May 9, 2018, the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC) will host the XXX IEC Chemistry Debate “Connect the Materials Science with the young students”. Susagna Ricart and Arántzazu González will take part in the event, which will start at 4:00 pm at the “Sala Prat de la Riba”, as speakers:
The Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) celebrated its XXXVI Biennial Meeting in Sitges from 25 to 29 June 2017. “The Biennial” (La Bienal) as it is known by the Spanish Chemical community, is the forum which shows the vitality and the vigor of the Spanish chemistry, and ICMAB didn’t want to miss this great event!
ICMAB hosted its first International Summer School on Materials for Biomedical Application (MATBIO2017) with four days full of lectures and hands-on activities, and with over 45 students of 21 different institutions and more than 8 different countries.