On december 11 and 12, IMDEA Energy held the 14th young researchers workshop, an internal event that brought together the institute’s predoctoral and posdocotral researchers to share the progress of their scientific work and encourage the exchange of ideas across the different research units. 

During the workshop, the young researchers presented their results through oral presentations and displayed a series of posters in the institute’s main hall.

At the end of the workshop, awards were given for the best scientific contributions, recognizing both the evaluation of the attending public and the jury. The awards were as follows: 

Audience awards:

    • Beatrice Fodor, Thermochemical Processes Unit and Advanced Porous Materials Unit, best predoctoral presentation

    • Pedro Gerber, Systems Analysis Unit, best posdocotoral presentation

Jury awards:

    • Sabeen Arshad, Thermochemical Processes Unit, best poster

    • Guillermo Gortázar, Advanced Porous Materials Unit, best predoctoral presentation

    • Beatrice Musig, High-Temperature Processes Unit, best posdoctoral presentation

In addition, the IMDEA Energy director recognized the best scientific contributions of the year:

    • Josue Andino, Electrical Systems Unit, predoctoral category

    • Paula Navalpotro, Electrochemical Processes Unit, and Sergio Carrasco, Advanced Porous Materials Unit, posdocotoral category

The 14th edition of the young researchers workshop concluded with the traditional Christmas coktail, a moment to celebrate the shared achievements of 2025 and toast to the year ahead.