The SENER Foundation has awarded the Best Doctoral Thesis Award to Jorge Muñoz, PhD from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and author of the thesis entitled Robust control strategies based on fractional calculus for robotic platforms. The work was supervised by Concepción Alicia Monje and Carlos Balaguer. The prize is endowed with 12,000 euros for the author of the thesis and 3,000 euros to be shared among the thesis supervisors.

Last Thursday as part of the Jornadas de Automática CEA award was presented to Prof. Miguel Angel Salichs for his contributions to the development of Automation in Spain and his internationally recognized contributions in the field of social robotics.

Concha Monje has been endowed with the Third Woman and Technology award by Fundación Orange. You can see the whole info in this link.

Concha Monje has been selected as one of the best 11 players in national scientific team by Quo magazine.

Last Thursday Carlos Balaguer was elected as honorary member of Observatorio Industria 4.0 in the hall of the Spanish Institute of Engineering.