Our colleague Carlos Dorronsoro received the Physical, Innovation and Technology Prize on December 12 for developing and transferring optical technologies with a high social and economic impact.

The event was held at the headquarters of the BBVA Foundation (Paseo de Recoletos, 10). In her Carlos Dorronsoro, has remembered the support provided by the RSEF when being a brilliant student of physics had serious health problems: "My career in physics began with a very bad foot. I spent a lot of time with oncologists, traumatologists, radiologists or radiophysicists, and I realized that physics is not just something theoretical [but] a powerful tool that solves problems, and saves lives. (...) In hospitals I also learned that (...) a bad file closes your doors of science. "

Throughout his career, Dorronsoro has worked as a scientist, technologist, manager, entrepreneur and manager, to bring to the market the technology resulting from his research. He began his career in the company and then "I returned to the academic world, but always thinking about the social dimension of research results," he says. He has co-founded four companies and is co-inventor of 21 patents in refractive and cataract surgery, image processing and microscopy, among other areas. 15 of these patents - with co-owners such as the CSIC, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) or the Harvard Medical School - have been licensed to national and international companies.