Manuel Romero, Deputy Director of IMDEA Energía, SolarPaces award for his scientific career in the development of concentrating solar power technologies.

IMDEA Energy’s Deputy Director, Manuel Romero, has been awarded the prestigious ‘SolarPACES Lifetime Achievement Award’ for his 40-year career achievements in the development of concentrating solar power technologies. The award was presented during the SolarPACES 2024 congress held in Rome from 8 to 11 October. The award, which he shared with Prof. Dr. Aldo Steinfeld […]

HeatNMof project results highlight versatility of MOFs for applications from pharmaceutical therapy to catalysis

The HeatNMOF project, coordinated by IMDEA Energy, was focused on developing multifunctional nanocomposite materials by combining the highly porous and versatile structure of biocompatible nano-Metal-Organic Frameworks (nanoMOFs) with plasmonic and magnetic inorganic nanoparticles (iNPs). These composites are designed to offer exceptional drug payloads with controlled release capabilities while also providing specific control of reactions within […]

Eleven IMDEA Energía researchers, among the 2% of the most influential scientists in the world

IMDEA Energía has eleven of the most relevant scientists in the world, according to the latest ‘World’s Top 2% Scientists’ reference list, compiled by Stanford University and the academic publishing house Elsevier. The ranking lists the most cited scientists on the global scene in various disciplines based on bibliometric information from the Scopus database, divided […]

IMDEA Energy participates in the new edition of the Smart Energy Congress SEC2024

As in previous editions, Institute IMDEA Energy has participated in the different activities of the ‘Smart Energy Congress SEC 2024’ held at the IFEMA North Convention Centre, Madrid, on the 2nd and 3rd of October, organised by the enerTIC Platform, of which it is a collaborating entity. The event brought together various firms, many of […]

Patricia Horcajada, awarded the Ada Byron Prize by the University of Deusto

Patricia Horcajada, head of the Advanced Porous Materials Unit at IMDEA Energy, has been awarded the Ada Byron Prize of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Deusto in the senior category. An expert in the design of new multifunctional materials for application in energy, health and the environment, Horcajada is a leading scientist […]

David Serrano, Director of IMDEA Energy, appointed academician of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain

Dr. David Serrano, Director of Institute IMDEA Energy and Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Rey Juan Carlos University, has been appointed corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain, and will be responsible for the ‘Energy Transition and Circular Economy’ area. In 2007 Serrano was appointed director of […]

IMDEA Energy coordinates several panel discussions at EnergYear Mobility 2024

Javier Dufour and Félix Marín, from Institute IMDEA Energía, moderated two panel discussions at the first Spanish edition of the EnergYear Mobility 2024 sustainable mobility congress held at the Jarama Circuit in Madrid on 10 and 11 July, which featured prominent speakers from the business world: Fuelling mobility: biofuels, electricity, hydrogen and alternatives for sustainable […]

MOFs, an innovative ‘shield’ to fight COVID

The global pandemic of COVID-19, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has had an enormous social and economic impact worldwide, making it imperative to design new therapies to combat its spread. In this context, several cutting-edge nanotechnologies have become promising tools to treat infectious diseases such as COVID. So far, the […]