From left to right, top row: Antonio Hernández Callejas, President of Ebro Foods; Miguel Ángel Castro, Rector of the University of Seville; Juan José Moreno (IIQ) first prize; Juan Antonio Marín Lozano, Vice President of the Andalusian Government; Rogelio Velasco Pérez, Minister of Knowledge and Universities. Bottom row: Svetlana Ivanova, representing Sara Navarro as second runner-up (ICMS); Manuel Pérez Ruíz, representing Valle Ojeda (IBVF) as first runner-up; Noureddine Khiar El Wahabi, Director of the IIQ; Rosina López Alonso, Vice President of Organization and Institutional Relations of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC); Francisco Javier Cejudo Fernández, Director of the IBVF; Juan Pedro Espinós Manzorro, Director of the ICMS.

Winners

Descubriendo la implicación del ligando pentametil-ciclopentadienilo en la formación de enlaces C-C
First prize: Juan José Moreno (IIQ)
Base-Promoted, Remote C−H Activation at a Cationic (η 5-C5Me5)Ir(III) Center Involving Reversible C−C Bond Formation of Bound C5Me5
J.Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 2205−2210

Arrojando luz sobre los procesos de regulación redox de las plantas en la oscuridad
First accesit: Valle Ojeda (IBVF)
2-Cys Peroxiredoxins Participate in the Oxidation of Chloroplast Enzymes in the Dark
Molecular Plant. 2018 Nov 5;11(11):1377-1388

Nuevos soportes para la generación de H2 libre de CO
Second accesit: Sara Navarro (ICMS)
Phosphate-type supportsfor the design of WGS catalysts
Appl. Catal. B: Environ. 2019, Vol. 244, 853-862