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Professor Joaquim Matias from the Department of Physics has been awarded the ICREA Academia prize for the second time by AGAUR to intensify his research over the next 5 years. Simultaneously, he has received the IPPP DIVA Award in UK for distinguished visiting professors.

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the results of the final round of its Proof of Concept 2024 Grant competition, with a total of 134 projects selected. ICREA researcher from the UAB Department of Physics Jordi Sort has been selected as one of the winners, with a grant of €150,000 for the SECURE-FLEXIMAG project, aimed at improving data security with new magnetic devices.

Next Tuesday, November 26 at 1:00 p.m., we will host this presentation with the participation of Ignasi Fina Martínez (senior scientist at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), and the award winners Daniel Martín Jiménez (post-doctoral researcher at ICMAB-CSIC) and Martí Perarnau Llobet (Ramón y Cajal post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Physics at the UAB). Both of them are coming to present to us the physics they have in mind!

Diego Blas, ICREA researcher at the IFAE, and Kostas Kostarelos, ICREA research professor and Severo Ochoa distinguished professor at the ICN2, have been awarded European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grants for the development of research projects under the EU’s Horizon Europe programme.

Department of Physics researcher Martí Perarnau Llobet received the Spanish Royal Physics Society-BBVA Foundation Award in the category of Young Researcher in Theoretical Physics. Perarnau recently began to work as a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the UAB Quantum Information Group.

Los Premios de Física Real Sociedad Española de Física-Fundación BBVA reconocen anualmente desde 2008 la creatividad, el esfuerzo y el logro en el campo de la física con el fin de servir de estímulo a los profesionales que desarrollan su labor tanto en la investigación, como en los ámbitos de las enseñanzas secundaria y universitaria, la innovación, la tecnología y la divulgación. Se presentan a continuación los galardonados en la edición de 2024 y la composición de los jurados.

Fabrizio Rompineve, researcher at the UAB Department of Physics and at the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), has been awarded the Buchalter Cosmology Prize for his research on gravitational waves from the early universe.

Department of Physics Professor Andreas Winter was recently awarded a Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship by the Institute for Advanced Study of the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

Diego Blas Temiño, researcher at the UAB Department of Physics and at the IFAE, has been awarded the Buchalter Prize in Cosmology for his research on gravitational waves.

The Governing Board of the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) recently appointed Professor Eugenio Coccia as new director of the institute, effective on 15 November 2022.