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Aitor Villafranca is a Senior Scientist in the Non-Linear and Nanoscale Guided Optics (N2GO) group, and has been awarded for the impact of his scientific career and his achievements in transfer in the field of optics and integrated photonics.
The jury highlighted the high number of patent families he has obtained, several licensed and others developed in public-private collaboration. It also highlighted the creation by the winner of a company named Alcyon Photonics, being its only founding scientific partner, focused on the development of integrated photonic circuits. And, finally, it valued his ability to transfer knowledge to society in the form of education and dissemination.

The National Research Awards granted by the MICIU, which have 20 categories with 30,000 euros each, are, according to Minister Diana Morant, “the most important recognition in Spain in the field of scientific research”. Similarly, Morant has highlighted the talent of the award winners, whose “science of excellence not only contributes to the progress and well-being of society, but also to the strengthening of our country”. In addition, the Minister has stressed that the current edition has the highest number of women awarded to date, “since in previous years fewer candidates were presented by female researchers”.

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