Professor Rodrigo Martins appointed Chair of the Advisory Board of BMC Materials, the new Nature-Springer journal to be released in January 2019.
Professor Pedro Barquinha will also be part of the editors body.

The On-Surf project is a Mobilizing Program involving 14 National companies from different sectors of activity and 8 non-business entities of SI & I (including FCT Nova and CENIMAT / i3N), in a broad consortium, priority in the International Innovation Agenda, Surface Engineering.

Professor Rodrigo Martins was unanimously re-elected as the representative of the Central Co-Location Centers on the Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors of KIC Raw Materials.

Prof. Isabel Ferreira of DCM - FCT NOVA, again obtains funding through the European Research Council (ERC). The "ERC Proof of Concept" grant allows the Researcher to have access to 150,000 euros for a period of 18 months.

The CENIMAT | i3N researcher and doctoral candidate Adriana Costa wins the best poster award at the 6th Dresden Nanoanalysis Symposium.

The editorial of Nature Electronics, highlights the experimental test of the International Physics Olympics, in which the transistor was chosen as an innovative piece.

Beatriz Coelho, SPM 2017 Award, has just won the FEMS award for the best master thesis in Europe, awarded for the first time this year with the thesis "The Digital Microfluidics Platform for Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification of DNA".