Prizes for Best Oral Presentation and Best Poster in the peer-led JPhD 2024 meeting
The JPhD2024, an event entirely organized by PhD fellows in the UAB Campus, was a great success of participation and scientific networking. Predoctoral researchers of IMB-CNM gave oral presentations and attended the posters showcase, with Carla Riera Llobet and Joel Pérez winning two of the prizes.
Original news published at ICMAB.
From November 27 to 29, 2024, the 8th Scientific Meeting of PhD Candidates (JPhD2024) brought together young researchers from UAB Campus community. Hosted at ICMAB, this peer-led event fostered academic dialogue and collaboration across diverse fields, including nanomaterials, energy, bioapplications, and electronics. The program featured invited talks by renowned experts, concise PhD candidates presentations, interactive roundtables on professional development and mental health, and vibrant poster sessions. Attendees also explored the ALBA Synchrotron on Friday, 29 November, emphasizing the event's focus on cutting-edge research. The inclusion of social activities like coffee breaks and poster sessions highlighted the meeting's informal yet enriching atmosphere.
Organized by and for PhD Candidates, the event is organized by members of leading research and academic institutions, including ICMAB-CSIC, ICN2, IMB-CNM, and UAB, sponsored by MDPI publishing house, the AMIT association of women researchers and from the SCN2, the Catalan society of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Predoctoral researcher from the Biomedical Applications Group Leo Salgado Chane-Pane was part of this organizing committee.
Best Oral Presentation
Sponsored by SCN2 and awarded with 100 €, Carla Riera Llobet, from the Radiation Detectors Group, won the prize with the presentation Adaptative Computation Techniques in Proton Therapy. Congratulations!
Best Poster Award
By popular vote, sponsored by SCN2 and awwarded with 50 € in a FNAC voucher, Joel Pérez Poncelas, technician from the MESSI group, won with the poster Tuning of the AACVD temperature conditions for depositing tungsten oxide nanoneedles modified with Au and Pt nanoparticles. Congratulations!
IMB-CNM contributions
As listed below, the following were the IMB-CNM oral presentations and posters in the different areas.
Electronics and Nanofabrication
- Houyem Trabelsi: Nitrogen dioxide gas sensor based on copper sulfide (Cu2S) structures synthesized via AACVD
- Felipe Zamorano: Thermal neutron detection in conventional radiotherapy facilities using thin Si and SiC detectors
- Èric Bach: Quality Assurance performance of ATLAS ITk Strip Sensors
- Haowen Hu: Polymeric precision doping assisted by high χ block copolymers
- Iker Uranga: Combination of Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography and Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers for Quantum Device fabrication
- María Benito-Gomes: Understanding dielectric losses in superconducting quantum circuit
Energy and Environment
- Milos Manojlovic: LGAD detectors for low energy photon science
Nanomedicine
- Carla Riera Llobet: Adaptative Computation Techniques in Proton therapy
Posters
- Angela Henao, hired within the framework of the DOSIFLASH project, which is supported by the CaixaResearch Call for Research in Health of the ”la Caixa” Foundation: SiC detectors for accurate dose monitoring in FLASH radiotherapy
- Joel Perez: Gas sensing characterization of PEDOT: PSS films
- Zohre Hamzei: Tuning of the AACVD temperature conditions for depositing tungsten oxide nanoneedles modified with Au and Pt nanoparticles
- Jack Nickson: Gallium Nitride - a wide band gap semiconductor material for particle detection in high- energy physics and space applications
Overall participation
The organizers said: "Overall, it has been a very enriching experience to have the opportunity to organise a PhD candidates conference. It has allowed us to understand the challenges behind the coordination of such a scientific event, as well as to network with young researchers from other centres and to develop our organisational and communication skills."
Among the invited speakers, the event counted with: Albert Figuerola, IN2-UB; Cristina Fornaguera, IQS; Mariela Menghini, IMDEA; Daniel Pérez, ALBA Synchrotron and Bárbara Polesso, ICFO. The topic of the roundtables were "Career Development" by researchers of AMIT-CAT, and "Mental Health during your PhD".
The closing event at the end of two intense days was the awards ceremony: the best presentation and the best poster were chosen (on this last case, both by the jury and popular vote).
This year participation has gone higher than the previous ine, with 113 participants in total. Of those, 56 participatns gave a talk during the two days of the event (in parallel sessions), and 17 presented a poster in the poster sessions. Most participants were ICMAB PhD researchers (45), 19 came from the ICN2, 15 from the UAB, 13 from the IMB-CNM, and the rest came from other institutions, including 5 from IREC, 5 from ICFO and 2 from ALBA.
All pictures by ICMAB-CSIC.
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