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The Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant, introduced this Thursday the winners of the National Research Awards, one in all Spain’s most vital recognitions within the scientific discipline. Morant highlighted in an announcement that this “is the edition with the largest number of women awarded” because the creation of the awards in 1982, and it’s also the primary time that two researchers win within the classes of Physics (María Carmen García) and Medicine ( Carmen Ayuso). This yr’s guidelines included measures to extend the variety of feminine candidates, equivalent to requiring not less than 40% girls for establishments that offered greater than two candidates.

Carmen Ayuso, scientific director of the Health Research Institute of the Jiménez Díaz Foundation, has been distinguished within the Gregorio Marañón class for her acknowledged profession, targeted on genetic, epidemiological, scientific and therapeutic analysis in uncommon ailments.

The Blas Cabrera modality went to María Carmen García, analysis professor on the Higher Council for Scientific Research on the Institute of Corpuscular Physics for her advances in particle physics, targeted on the examine of the elemental parts of matter and their interactions. García participated within the ATLAS venture, key to the invention of the Higgs boson.

The minister has highlighted the expertise of the award winners, whose “science of excellence not only contributes to the progress and well-being of society, but also to the strengthening” of Spain. The awards, created to differentiate the very best Spanish scientists, have been eradicated by the Government of Mariano Rajoy. Pedro Sánchez’s Executive recovered them in 2018, slicing their authentic quantity from 100,000 to 30,000 euros.

In the sector of biology, the Santiago Ramón y Cajal award went to Isabel Fariñas, professor on the University of Valencia within the division of Cellular Biology, Functional Biology and Physical Anthropology. Their contributions to the biology of neural stem cells and their functions to the therapy of neurological ailments, equivalent to Alzheimer’s, stand out. “Society must be aware that research must be supported. And we need financing,” Fariñas declared to EL PAÍS in 2018.

Eugenio Oñate, researcher and founding father of the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, has obtained the Leonardo Torres Quevedo award for his work within the improvement of computational strategies for engineering functions. For her half, Professor Gloria Corpas, from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Malaga, has obtained the award for her scientific profession within the space of ​​philology.

Miquel Canals, professor of Marine Geosciences on the Faculty of Earth Sciences of the University of Barcelona, ​​has been acknowledged for his contribution to the examine of biogeochemistry and anthropogenic impacts on the marine setting with the Alejandro Malaspina Award. “The path passes through a cocktail of energy sources in which less polluting energies should be favored,” he instructed EL PAÍS in 2022.

Tomás Torres, scientist on the IMDEA Nanoscience Institute, has been awarded within the Enrique Moles class for his contributions within the discipline of latest molecular supplies in rising technological areas. In the sector of expertise switch, Ramón Martínez, professor on the Polytechnic University of Valencia, has been the winner of the Juan de la Cierva Award for his contribution to nanotechnology.

Xavier Tolsa, winner of the Julio Rey Pastor modality, is an ICREA analysis professor and has been awarded for his research within the space of ​​harmonic evaluation and the geometric concept of capabilities. The contributions within the discipline of cognitive psychology and the neuroscience of language by Núria Sebastián, from the Pompeu Fabra University, have earned her the Pascual Madoz Prize.

“Although there are many languages ​​in the world, basically they are nothing more than varieties of the human language. The neural networks that underlie and enable their learning and use are extraordinarily similar, if not the same,” Sebastián mentioned in a column printed in EL PAÍS in 2017.

A dozen scientists beneath 40 years of age have obtained the National Research Awards for Young People: Jerónimo Carlos Rodríguez, Víctor Vilarrasa, Cristina Blanco, Patricia Altea, Rosa María Fernández, Beatriz Pelaz, María Escudero, Aitor Villafranca, Verónica Bolón and Mar Reguant. The jury, chaired by the Secretary General of Research, Eva Ortega Paíno, has awarded the awards equally for the primary time in its historical past, with 50% of winners within the senior class and 70% of girls in these beneath 40. years.