After 2 years of COVID suspension we were looking forward to participating in the XIV edition of Expociencia. Close to 50% of the group (Eloy, Natalia, Violeta, Carmen, Clara, Neyvis, Ana and Belén) prepared new activities to approach chemistry to a very young audience.
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Carlos has received the 2022 Research Excellence Prize of the Spanish Royal Society in Chemistry for his contributions in the last 5 years to the field of porous molecular frameworks.
Víctor Rubio and Javier López have been awarded Margarita Salas and María Zambrano Fellowships from the Agencia Estatal de Investigación to continue their academic careers at the Katholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Kyoto (Japan).
Our new company Porous Materials in Action (PMA) has received the first award of the StartupVLC 2021 Parc Científic de la Universitat de València, on the laboratory category. Here Carlos Martí-Gastaldo presents PMA: Youtube
The female part from our group have happily participated in the celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science that took place on the 11th of February 2022. On this day, dedicated to celebrate women in science, they joined the CEIP Bertomeu Llorens i Royo (Catarroja) in order to present children the significance of women in research and science and bring closer to them the gender equality concept. They enjoyed a lot and received a lot of feedback from the school!
Our group is constantly expanding and a lot of new members have recently joined our lab. Larisha, Violeta, Eva and Garin will join as Postdoctoral Researchers while Eloy is starting with us the PhD journey. Also, a big group of students started joining us this year to develop their final Master thesis or as part of an internship program. Take a look on the team descriptions for further information.
Carlos Martí Gastaldo was invited as a speaker in which he presented his work Practising Reticular Chemistry with Titanium-Organic Frameworks. Also Clara and Eloy, our first year PhD students have participated with their posters.
Carlos Martí-Gastaldo, group leader of the FuniMAT group at the ICMol of the University of Valencia, has been awarded a prestigious Consolidator Grant of 2 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) for the development of his project LIVINGPORE. The project aims to develop innovative strategies to «program» the chemistry and the structural response of porous MOF-type materials.
Our students have created a new Instagram account. With the goal to share their everyday lab life, you will find lot of different content: from new MOF structures to lunch breaks and fun times together. Follow us on @funimat_lab
FuniMAT is formed by mainly women. On the 8th March 2022 they reunited to stand up together for equality and celebrate International Womens Day. We are very proud of the sense of sorority that exist in our group.