| Isabelle Anguelovski | 
- Premi 8 de Març – Maria Aurèlia Capmany, City of Barcelona, Eco-feminism prize received with Cooperativa Punt 6
 
- Part of the world’s 2% most cited authors in urban studies and planning
 
 
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| Salvador Aznar-Benitah | 
- Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Life Sciences
 
 
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| Marco Baroni | 
- ACL 2020 10-year Test of Time Award
 
 
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| Verónica Benet Martínez | 
- Elected President-Elect of the European Association of Personality Psychology
 
 
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| Jordi Cabot | 
- Best Poster and Demo Award at the 20th Int. Conf. on Web Engineering (ICWE)
 
 
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| Xavier Cabré | 
- Plenary speaker at the 8th European Congress of Mathematics
 
 
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| Paul Christou | 
- Medalla Narcís Monturiol al mèrit científic i tecnològic, Generalitat de Catalunya
 
 
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| Esteve Corbera | 
- Highly Cited Researcher 2020, Clarivate Analytics
 
 
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| Xavier Costa | 
- Best Conference Paper Award of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communications Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM)
 
 
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| Josep Dalmau | 
- Frontiers of Science Award
 
- Highly Cited Researcher 2020, Clarivate Analytics
 
 
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| Manel Esteller | 
- Medalla Narcís Monturiol al mèrit científic i tecnològic, Generalitat de Catalunya
 
- Highly Cited Researcher 2020, Clarivate Analytics
 
 
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| Stuart Hardy | 
- Elected Fellow of IAAM (International Association of Advanced Materials)
 
 
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| Sergio Idelsohn | 
- Elected Member of the Executive Council of the International Association of Computational Mechanics-IACM- for the period 2020-2026
 
 
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| Manuel Irimia | 
- I “José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta” Award for scientific excellence in Developmental Biology
 
 
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| Frank Koppens | 
- Highly Cited Researcher 2020, Clarivate Analytics
 
 
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| Maciej Lewenstein | 
- Highly Cited Researcher 2020 (16 Highly Cited Papers), Clarivate Analytics
 
 
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| Josep Maria Llovet | 
- Highly Cited Researcher 2020, Clarivate Analytics
 
 
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| Marco Madella | 
- Honorary Professor, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg – South Africa
 
 
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| Viviek Malhotra | 
- Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
 
 
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| Mervi Mantsinen | 
- Selected Member of European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division Board
 
 
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| Maurizio Mencuccini | 
- Highly Cited Researcher 2020, Clarivate Analytics
 
 
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| Pablo Menéndez | 
- Best CIBERONC Young Leader Researcher
 
 
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| Núria Montserrat | 
- EMBO Young Investigator Prize
 
- Premio “Constantes y Vitales” a la mejor publicación biomédica de 2020
 
 
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| Pura Muñoz-Cánoves | 
- Member of “Consejo Consultivo en Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación de la Presidencia de la Generalitat Valenciana”
 
 
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| Sergei Odintsov | 
- Honorary Professorship award of TUSUR university, Tomsk, Russia
 
 
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| Sílvia Osuna | 
- Premi Nacional de Recerca al Talent Jove
 
 
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| Aurora Pujol | 
- Late Breaking News Award of the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism (SSIEM, London)
 
 
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| Ángel Raya | 
- Premi Ciutat de Barcelona 2019, Ciències de la Vida
 
 
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| Victoria Reyes García | 
- Medalla Narcís Monturiol al mèrit científic i tecnològic, Generalitat de Catalunya
 
 
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| César R. Ranero | 
- Premi Ciutat de Barcelona 2019, Ciències Ambientals i de la Terra
 
- Member of the Academia Europaea
 
 
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| Barbara Rossi | 
- CEBRA Inflation Advisory Council Member
 
- Keynote Speaker, 2020 European System of Central Banks (Bundesbank)
 
 
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| Joan-Pau Rublés | 
- Member of Academia Europaea
 
 
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| Neus Sabaté | 
- Premio de Física Real Sociedad Española de Física – Fundación BBVA 2020 en la Categoría Física, Innovación y Tecnología
 
- Premi FIDEM 2020 a la Innovació Tecnològica
 
- Finalist of the EU Prize Women Innovators 2020
 
 
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| Samuel Sánchez | 
- Member of the Academia Joven de España
 
 
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| María Victoria Sánchez-Vives | 
- Premi FIDEM 2020 a la Corresponsabilitat
 
 
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| Manuel Serrano | 
- 48th Fondation ARC Léopold Griffuel Award
 
 
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| Jordi Sort | 
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics (United Kingdom)
 
- 12è Premi Duran Farell d’Investigació Tecnològica
 
 
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| Clivia Sotomayor | 
- Member of the Academia Europaea
 
 
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| Albert Tarancón | 
- Solar Impulse Efficient Solution Label
 
 
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| Matthias  Tischler | 
- Member of the Academia Europaea
 
 
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| Diego Torres | 
- Fellow, Presidential International Fellowship Initiative, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
 
 
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| Isabel Usón | 
- Life Membership to Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge
 
 
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| Miquel Vila | 
- Parkinson-2019 Award, Sociedad Española de Neurología
 
 
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| Peter Wagner | 
- Academia Europaea, chair of section “Social thought and social change”
 
 
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