Samuel Mañas Valero, student of the Master’s degree in Molecular Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the University of Valencia, has been awarded with a second prize in the Twelfth Archimedes University Contest of Introduction to Scientific Research, promoted by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, that aims to favour the incorporation of young students within the research field. Furthermore, the students Abel Folch and Nancy Carolina Tenjo, also from the University, have obtained compensation prizes for their works.
The project by Samuel Mañas, which was awarded a second prize within the area of Experimental, Exact and Environmental Sciences, aims to overcome one of the current challenges in nanotechnology: detecting and manipulating the magnetism of nanometric entities to, for example, prepare high density magnetic memories. This research has been supervised by researchers from the Institute for Molecular Science (ICMol) of the University of Valencia, Eugenio Coronado, Alicia Forment and Elena Pinilla. Mañas explains that this award means recognition for the work done during the last months of his degree final project and “will be highly useful when looking for future grants or funding, especially in this time of crisis”.
Meanwhile, Abel Folch has been awarded a compensation prize and a stay in a research centre of the CSIC for the work entitled ‘Modelado híbrido de la red metabólica de la levadura Pichia pastoris’ (‘Hybrid modelling of the metabolic network of Pichia pastoris yeast’). The student Nancy Carolina has also been awarded with a compensation prize for her project “Estimación de Clorofila-A en distintos cuerpos de agua en Colombia y España por técnicas de teledetección” (“Estimate of Chlorophyll-A in different wáter bodies in Colombia and Spain through remote sensing techniques”).
In this edition of the “Archimedes” contest 255 projects applied, from which 24 have been awarded, three of them by students of the University of Valencia. These awards are intended to promote the combination of teaching and research in Spanish universities, as well as favouring the incorporation of young students to the research field through awarding prizes to original projects of scientific and technological research made by the students.
Last update: 10 de december de 2013 13:03.
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