The meeting was organised by ICMAB-CSIC, the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology (ICN2), and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and sponsored by the Central European Research Consortium (CERIC), the publishing house MDPI, the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM), and CASIO.
The 12 PhD organisers were the following: Afroditi Koutsogianni (ICMAB), Elena Murillo Vilella (ICMAB), Manan Mehta (ICMAB), Xiaoming Liu (ICMAB), Patricia Aguilar Merino (ICN2), Aina Galceran Sabatés (ICN2), Belén Pepió Tárrega (ICN2), Noel Muñoz Pérez (ICN2), Jorge Martínez Romeral (ICN2), Roger de Paz Castany (UAB), Luís Martínez Armesto (UAB) and Aitor Arredondo López (UAB).
Organizers of the JPhD 2025 | ICMAB-CSIC
The organisers said about this year's edition that "We’re really happy with how this year’s conference turned out. 99 participants (counting oral and poster contributions), 12 invited speakers, a roundtable, 2 workshops and 2 Invited Seminars. It’s always great to see so many PhD candidates from different institutes sharing their work, and just enjoying the day. There’s a lot of preparation behind the scenes, so seeing everything run smoothly feels really rewarding."
In total, 99 people participated in the event, 38 of whom were from the ICMAB. In total, there were 11 different affiliations participating in the conference, as you can see below. The programme was packed will talks (even in parallel sessions) and different events.
PhD candidates from 11 institutions participated at the JPhD 2025 | ICMAB-CSIC
Awards
The Best Oral Contribution award was given to Haowen Hu, PhD candidate of IMB-CNM, for his presentation titled 'High-resolution block copolymers for advanced application in nanoelectronics'.
Haowen Hu was the winner of the Best Oral Contribution Award | ICMAB-CSIC
Faiz Ullah was the winner of the Best Poster Contribution Award | ICMAB-CSIC5 invited talks, 2 seminars, 1 roundtable and 2 workshops
One of the JPhD 2025 highlights was the roundtable on "Is there life after a PhD?". Participants on this roundtable were Marta Colomer (MDPI), Sara Martínez (ICN2), Mariano Campoy (ICMAB) and Daniel Rueda (Wattium).
ALBA Synchrotron and IMB-CNM White Room visit
Participants had also the chance to visit the white room at IMB-CNM, where they could see first hand how this laboratory works.
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