The researcher Alberto Jiménez Solano has a PhD in Physics from the University of Seville and currently works at the Max Planck Institute in Munich.

His work focuses on the study of nanophotonics and new sensors. During his stay at the Institute of Materials Science in Seville, he completed his doctoral thesis with the MOM group (Multifunctional Optical Materials), under the supervision of Prof. Hernán Míguez and Dr. Juan F. Galisteo. This work earned him second prize for the best doctoral thesis presented in 2017, awarded by the specialized group of Nanoscience and molecular materials (NanoMatMol) of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) and the Royal Spanish Society of Physics (RSEF).

Alberto Jiménez, José Luis de Justo, Santiago de León y Domecq, Antonio Franconetti, Gonzalo Millán and Marcelo Maestre.

Since then, his research career in the study of interactions between matter and light has been on the rise and this has earned him one of the Young Researchers Awards given by the Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla, awards which, together with the Real Academia Sevillana de Ciencias, have reached their thirty-first edition since they were inaugurated in 1989.

Three years have passed since the last edition, which due to the health crisis could not be held earlier, so this is the call for 2019. A total of 50 proposals were submitted to this edition, of which 20 corresponded to Biology, 5 to Physics, another 5 to Mathematics, 8 to Chemistry and 15 to Technology.

The secretary of the jury, Carmen Hermosín, highlighted at the awards ceremony the difficulty of choosing due to the high quality of all the works. Each award is worth 6,000 euros and is aimed at young researchers under 35 years of age. Two of them correspond to the Real Maestranza (one of which was won by Alberto Jiménez) and another to the Real Academia Sevillana de Ciencias.

We predict a brilliant future for this researcher, who from his beginnings at the ICMS already showed that he was going to be unstoppable.