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Diego Blas, ICREA researcher at the IFAE, and Kostas Kostarelos, ICREA research professor and Severo Ochoa distinguished professor at the ICN2, have been awarded European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grants for the development of research projects under the EU’s Horizon Europe programme.

The meteorological data recorded over the past two decades by sensors of the Roque de los Muchachos astronomical observatory facilities point to a rise of 1.1 ºC in the average temperature. The analysis, led by UAB researchers, shows more than double the increase predicted by climate models for the same area, and even more than expected for the next 20 years.

Department of Physics researcher Martí Perarnau Llobet received the Spanish Royal Physics Society-BBVA Foundation Award in the category of Young Researcher in Theoretical Physics. Perarnau recently began to work as a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the UAB Quantum Information Group.

Los Premios de Física Real Sociedad Española de Física-Fundación BBVA reconocen anualmente desde 2008 la creatividad, el esfuerzo y el logro en el campo de la física con el fin de servir de estímulo a los profesionales que desarrollan su labor tanto en la investigación, como en los ámbitos de las enseñanzas secundaria y universitaria, la innovación, la tecnología y la divulgación. Se presentan a continuación los galardonados en la edición de 2024 y la composición de los jurados.

An International study led by UAB researcher Ariane Arias-Ortiz, and published in Global Change Biology, has analysed methane gas fluxes in over a hundred tidal wetlands and marshes in the USA. The analysis has identified key environmental factors affecting methane emissions and has allowed a larger set of standardised data on greenhouse gas emissions in those ecosystems to be produced. These data can be used to account for greenhouse gases with greater precision and improve climate models.

Rafel Escribano gave the talk “Electroweak Symmetry Breaking”, in the UAB Science Faculty, as part of the monthly pizza seminar organized by the UAB Physics Students Association, a delegation of the RSEF students association.

The artist Lydia Ourahmane presents the exhibition “108 days” at the MACBA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona), in which every day different people and groups present their thoughts, work, experiences, etc. One of the days is dedicated to Cosmology.

From February 10 and for 5 Saturdays, the Faculty of Sciences will host the 24rd Physics Saturdays. An initiative of the Department of Physics whose main objective is to bring physics and science closer to young pre-university students and motivate them to learn about the world around us in a rigorous and, at the same time, understandable way.

Fabrizio Rompineve, researcher at the UAB Department of Physics and at the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), has been awarded the Buchalter Cosmology Prize for his research on gravitational waves from the early universe.

Researchers from the UAB and ICMAB have managed to take wireless technology to the fundamental level of magnetic devices. The appearance and control of magnetic properties in layers of cobalt nitride (initially non-magnetic) by means of voltage, without connecting the sample to electrical wiring, published in Nature Communications, represents a paradigm shift that can facilitate the creation of magnetic nanorobots for the biomedicine and computer systems where basic information management processes do not require wiring.