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Francesc Viñes becomes an ICREA Academia Awardee


The ICREA Acadèmia programme has awarded, in the 2022 call, 14 researchers of the Universitat de Barcelona, each of whom will receive 40,000€ anually during five years. These grats are an initiative to retain talent in Catalonia.

Since its creation, the ICREA Academia programme has given more than 300 researchers in the Catalan university system these grants, which are aimed exclusively at university lecturers who are teaching and who are in a fully active and expanding phase of their research activity.

Our very own Francesc Viñes, associate professor at the Departament de Ciència de Materials i Química Física and member of the IQTC, has been awarded in this edition.

You can check everyone awarded in the UB teaching and research staff in the following link: The ICREA Academia programme awards fourteen UB staff members.