Fernando Moreno-Herrero awarded ‘Miguel Catalán’ prize 2015
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The Autonomous Community of Madrid has awarded the 2015 ‘Julian Marías’ and ‘Miguel Catalán’ Research Prizes
Among the awardees is the SBE member Fernando Moreno-Herrero, from the Molecular Biophysics of DNA repair nanomachines Lab, at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología – CNB, CSIC, Madrid (Spain), who wins a ‘Miguel Catalán’ prize (ex aequo) in the category ‘scientists under 40’.
Fernando Moreno-Herrero graduated in Physics at the University of Oviedo (1998) and got a PhD in Physics at the Autonomous University of Madrid (2003). Before his present position in Madrid, he worked as a postdoc in the Technical University of Delft and as ‘Ramón y Cajal’ Researcher at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology (Barcelona).
Dr. Moreno-Herrero’s performs research at the frontiers between Biology and Physics, with a strong focus on development and application of single-molecule techniques. His excellent work has won financial support from the European Research Council, with an ERC-Starting grant (2007) an ERC-Proof of concept grant (2015) and very recently an ERC-Consolidator grant (2015).
He has also been awarded a SBE-40 ‘Pérez-Payá prize in 2014 and the IZASA-WERFEN prize of SEBBM in 2012.