Dolors Baró receives the ISMANAM Senior Scientist Award

Maria Dolors Baró, professor of the Area of Applied Physics of the Department of Physics of the UAB, received the Senior Scientist Award at the 23rd edition of the International Symposium on Metastable, Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials (ISMANAM). The award was presented to her during the Symposium dinner which took place in the Nara Kasugano International Forum (Japan) on 7 July. Dr Baró was a guest speaker at the symposium and gave a conference entitled “Using Femtosecond Pulsed Laser Irradiation to Magnetically Pattern the Surface of Non-Ferromagnetic Amorphous Steel”.

This is the first time a woman scientist is awarded this international prize. This award was established in 1994 in order to recognize scientists with a brilliant research career and with outstanding contributions on all aspects related to metastable, amorphous and nanostructured materials.

Outstanding researchers such as Akihisa Inoue, Director of the Institute of Materials Research, Tohoku University; W.L. Johnson, from the California Institute of Technology (CALTECH); Lindsay Greer, from the University of Cambridge; and Takeshi Egami, from the University of Tennessee, have been past recipients of this international award.