ICREA Research Professors have received a large number of honours, prizes and awards in 2017. Here is a list of the most important ones:

Antonio Acín
  • Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for 2016 for the paper ‘Algorithmic Pseudorandomness in Quantum Setups’, published in Physical Review Letters
Jordi Arbiol
  • President of the Spanish Microscopy Society (SME) (2017-2021)
  • María de la Mata receives the SME Award to the Best 2015-2016 PhD Thesis in Materials Science by the Spanish Microscopy Society (SME): “Atomic Scale Characterization of Semiconductor Non-Planar Nanostructures”. Jordi Arbiol, Supervisor
Salvador Aznar Benitah
  • Premio Investigación Biomédica Doctores Diz Pintado
  • Premi Ciutat de Barcelona 2016, Cièncias de la vida. Awarded in 2017
  • 3er Premi La Vanguardia de la Ciència 2016. Awarded in 2017
Eduard Batlle
  • XI Premio Fundación Francisco Cobos
Josep Dalmau
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University
  • Premio Rey Jaime I en Investigación Médica/Medicina Clínica 2017
  • Recognition as one of “The WORLD’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2017”, Clarivate Analytics/Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2017
  • AQuAS Award, Generalitat de Catalunya
Ruth de Diego
  • Award of the Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology (SEPEX) to the best article 2016
Manel Esteller Badosa
  • Premi Falcó de Carlemany
  • Mejores Ideas 2017 en Invetigación y Farmacologia. Epitranscriptoma del Cáncer, Diario Medico
Alexander Fidora
  • Elected Vice-President of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM)
  • Elected Member of the Academia Europaea (AE)
Maria F. García Parajo
  •  2017 “Manuel Rico” – Bruker Prize, Sociedad de Biofísica de España.
Maciej Lewenstein
  • Medalla de la Real Sociedad Española de Física
  • Recognition as one of “The WORLD’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2017”, Clarivate Analytics/Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2017
Josep Maria Llovet
  • Recognition as one of “The WORLD’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2017”, Clarivate Analytics/Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2017
Tomàs Marquès-Bonet
  • Howard Hughes International Young Investigator
  • Premi Recerca 125è Aniversari del Zoo
Genoveva Martí
  • Elected Chair of the Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Section of the Academia Europaea
Ruben Matin-Romo
  • OMCOS Award
  • Marcial Moreno Lectureship Award
  • Liebig-Lectureship Award
Pura Muñoz
  • 1er Premi La Vanguardia de la Ciència 2016. Awarded in 2017
Konstantin Neyman
  • Chalmers Jubilee Professor, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Sergei Odintsov
  • Silver Medal  ‘For achievments in the education and science’, Academical Council of Tomsk State Pedagogical University
  • Recognition as one of “The WORLD’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2017”, Clarivate Analytics/Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2017
Romain Quidant
  • Premi Banc Sabadell, Science and Engineering
Carme Rovira i Virgili
  • Premi Ciutat de Barcelona 2016, Experimental Sciences and Technology. Awarded in 2017
Samuel Sánchez-Ordóñez
  • Premi Nacional de Recerca al Talent Jove 2016. Awarded in 2017
  • Guinness ® World Record: smallest tubular man-made jet engine
  • Best Poster Award: Micro-Nanomachines International Conference, Wuhan, China
Jordi Sort
  • PhD student Cristina Navarro-Senent got the First Prize poster Award at the 3rd Scientific Meeting 2017 BCN-b PhD students in Nanoscience (ICMAB, Bellaterra, Spain).  Jordi Sort supervisor
Marcel Swart
  • Award for Best Paper in 2016 at the University of Belgrade (Serbia) with Maja Gruden
Jeroen van den Bergh
  • 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence  to the article ‘Human health impacts of climate change as a catalyst for public engagement’ published in International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 8(5)
Niek van Hulst
  • EPS (European Physcial Society) Prize for Fundamental Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics. For pioneering contributions to nano-optics and its applications to molecular spectroscopy and to ultrafast light-matter interactions.
Licia Verde
  • 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Awarded as member of the WMAP Science Team. Awarded in 2017.