Historical Facts

• ICMAB secures €2.2 million in National Research Funding for 13 cutting-edge projects
• The CSIC strengthens its protocol against workplace harassment and creates two new units to improve case management
• Anniversary celebration of the Spanish State Research Agency
• Inauguration of InCAEM: a new cutting-edge technological infrastructure for the study of materials for energy transition
• ICMAB Celebrates its 450th PhD Thesis and the legacy of its Doctoral Fellows

• ICMAB receives the Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence Award for the third time consecutively
• Energy Transition Joint Lab CSIC-ALBA Officially Inaugurated to Boost Research in Batteries and Superconductors
•  Clara Viñas, Distinguished Research Career Recognition Award from the RSEQ
•  Xavier Obradors, awarded for his outstanding career by the IEEE CSC
•  Researcher Paula Mayorga of the Nanomol-bio group receives the 2024 Research Award: 'For Women in Science' organized by L'Oréal and Unesco

• David Amabilino appointed new Director at ICMAB
• Joint CSIC-ALBA Laboratory opens to drive sustainable energy solutions
• M. Rosa Palacín, nova acadèmica de la RACAB
• New European Project NABIHEAL in biomaterials for complex wound healing
• Four new MSCA Doctoral Network (DN) projects flying to ICMAB
• And the EmErgEnt winner is... SOLS: Accelerator of photovoltaic technologies

• ICMAB debuts in the "Science by Women" program in its 7th edition 
• Molecular Gate S.L., new ICMAB-CSIC and BeAble Capital spin-off, offers a transformative technology to ensure the authenticity of pharmaceutical products 
• ICMAB at CSIC Investiga Special Issue on H2020 
• Parliament and congress members visit the TECNIO centre at ICMAB 

• ICMAB joins the 7th edition of the Science by Women programme 
• The 2021 ICMAB Summer Party celebrates the Institute’s 35 years! 
• Seven Frontier Interdisciplinary Projects (FIP) granted within the Severo Ochoa FUNFUTURE Programme
• ICMAB involved in ASTIP, the Next Generation EU proposal for advanced research in complex materials and bio systems

• The ICMAB becomes an institute of restricted access for the following two weeks
• ICMAB is awarded with the "Severo Ochoa" Center of Excellence Award for the second time in a row
• The ICMAB receives one ERC Starting Grant researcher who will explore magnetic insulators for future spintronics 

• 1 ERC Grant PoC attributed to the ICMAB.
• End of the first Severo Ochoa Project “Smart Functional Materials for Social Grand Challenges” 2016-2019
• ICMAB is the first CSIC center in research outputs per capita in the Nature Index 2019 ranking
• 15 % of the CSIC European patents applied in 2019 are from the ICMAB

• The ICMAB reaches 5,000 publications
• 1 ERC Grant attributed to ICMAB
• The SAB evaluates RL2, RL4 and RL5

• Maximum budget achieved so far (15.2 M€)
• First coordinated COFUND MSCA project (DOC-FAM)
• Maximum number of on-going EU projects (34)
• The SAB evaluates RL1 and RL3
• The SOMM Alliance is created

• First visit to ICMAB of the Scientific Advisory Board-SAB 
  
• A new Scientific Advisory Board is nominated for ICMAB
• 30 years of ICMAB
• 4 more ERC Grants attributed to ICMAB to start in 2017

• ICMAB receives the Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence mention
• 3 ERC Grants attributed to ICMAB
• ICMAB-CSIC-AP-UAB agreement on the new distribution of use of MATGAS building

• Budgetary difficulties of CSIC
• NANBIOSIS becomes an ICTS
• 1 ERC Grant attributed to ICMAB

• CSIC crisis initiates a period of economic troubles
• Fusion project is abandoned
• The first ERC Grant attributed to ICMAB

• New floor with clean room facility and photovoltaic roof
• Fusion project ready
• Approval of the ICMAB’s Strategic Plan 2010-13

• Creation of Scientific Platform CIBER-BBN: ICMAB integrated through “Soft Materials”
• Xavier Obradors, Director of ICMAB
• The Conference room is named “Carles Miravitlles”

• Creation of UAB Research Park (PRUAB)
• Creation of Barcelona Nanocluster in Bellaterra (BNC-b) 

• Official opening of MATGAS 2000 AIE building
• Approval of the ICMAB’s Strategic Plan 

• Restructuring into five Departments
• Creation of a Unit of Scientific Services

• Creation of a new Unit of Scientific Services, CIN2 and eight Departments
• Construction of a new building for MATGAS connected with the ICMAB site

Starting the Materials Engineering Studies at the UAB

Initiation of the procedure for the creation of MATGAS 2000 AIE (UAB/CSIC/CM)

Construction of a new floor and remodelation of the building

Restructuring into four Departments

Creation of the joint Supercritical Fluids Facility with CM, SA

New Foundation Board

Restructuring of the centre with a Foundation Board

Institute officially opened. The King and Queen of Spain are present in the inauguration

• New building on the UAB campus

• Foundation of the ICMAB by the CSIC on 26 June 1986
• Carles Miravitlles appointed as Acting Director