Awards

• Huajian Yu wins the 2026 Margarita Salas Award:  

Huajian Yu has been awarded the 4th «Margarita Salas» Award in Basic Sciences in recognition of their outstanding doctoral thesis «Direct hydrothermal synthesis of zeolites and beyond: Interchain expansion and topotactic condensation», supervised by Miguel Camblor and Zihao Rei Gao.

 

• Joab David Guerrero wins the prize for best poster at the 2025 meeting of the Spanish Clay Society 

Joab David Guerrero has been awarded a prize for the best poster presented at the 2025 meeting of the Spanish Clay Society, held in Madrid in November 2025.

 

• Celia Martín Morales, best communication award in the 18th ICC Dublin:

Celia Martín Morales has been awarded one of the Best Student Oral Communication prizes at the 18th International Clay Conference, held in Dublin in July 2025. The award recognizes her presentation titled «Clay-based nanostructured systems for the controlled delivery of chlorhexidine», coauthored by P. Aranda, R. Martin-Sampedro, D. Ibarra, M.E. Eugenio, F. Sánchez del Valle and E. Ruiz-Hitzky.

 

• Vanessa Sánchez, best poster award at YOUMAT25 conference:

Vanessa Sánchez received the award for best poster, “Synthesis Methods and Surface Modification for KNN as a Filler in Composite Materials,” at the YOUMAT25 conference held at the ICMM-CSIC on April 28 and 29, 2025.

 

 • Ediana P. Rebitski, winner of the Martin Vivaldi Award 2019:

Ediana P. Rebitski was the recipient of the Martín Vivaldi Award, sponsored by the European Clay Groups Association (ECGA) and financially supported by the Sociedad Española de Arcillas (SEA). The award was granted during the Euroclay2019 meeting held in Paris in July 2019.

 

• Ediana P. Rebitski, best communication award in the XXV Meeting of the Spanish Clay Society:

Ediana P. Rebitski was awarded for the best communication by young researchers granted by the Spanish Clay Society during its annual meeting held in Zamora on July 5-7, 2018. The award was granted for her oral communication entitled “Bionanocomposites basados en arcilla y biopolimeros para liberación controlada del antidiabético metformina”, coauthored by P. Aranda, M. Darder, R. Carraro and E. Ruiz-Hitzky.

 

• Marwa Akkari, winner of the José María Serratosa Award 2017:

Dr. Marwa Akkari was the recipient of the José María Serratosa Award, sponsored and financially supported by Sociedad Española de Arcillas – SEA (Spanish Clay Society). The award was granted during the XVI International Clay Conference meeting held in Granada in July 2017.

 

 • Bernd Wicklein, winner of the Martin Vivaldi Award 2015:

Dr. Bernd Wicklein was the recipient of the  Martín Vivaldi Award, sponsored by the European Clay Groups Association (ECGA) and financially supported by the Sociedad Española de Arcillas (SEA). The award was granted during the Euroclay2015 meeting held in Edinburgh in July 2015.

 

 •  Cristina Ruiz García, winner of the «Initiation to Clay Studies Award 2013» of the Spanish Clay Society:

 Cristina Ruiz García was the winner of the «Initiation to Clay Studies Award 2013» granted by the Spanish Clay Society during its annual meeting held on November 15^th, 2013. The award was granted for the Master Degree dissertation entitled “Materiales grafénicos soportados en silicatos a partir de precursores naturales: preparación, caracterización y estudio de aplicaciones”, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).

 

 •  Ana Clecia Santos Alcântara, winner of the AIPEA Bradley Award 2013:

Dr. Ana C.S. Alcântara was the recipient of the «Bradley Award» for young researchers granted by the International Association for the Study of Clays (AIPEA) in the XV International Clay Conference (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).