📢 📢 We could not be happier to share this wonderful news: Miguel Anaya has been awarded the 2026 Felisa Martín Bravo National Research Award for Young Researchers in Physical Sciences, Materials Science and Earth Sciences! 🥳 🙌 @anayalab.bsky.social

Another very productive stay at the ALBA Synchrotron! Amel, Carmen, and Aaron pulled off a measurement marathon over three very busy days in Barcelona and we can't wait to analyze and share the data they collected. Many thanks to the BL11 beamline scientist for all the help and support!!

Congratulations to the @icmsevilla.bsky.social on its 40th anniversary! 🎉 It is a privilege to be part of this outstanding scientific community and to work alongside so many leading researchers and groups. Here’s to many more years of science, innovation and collaboration!

Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla- ICMS@icmsevilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

🎉 The Institute of Materials Science of Seville celebrates 40 years! 🎉 40 years of research 🔬, collaboration 🤝, and innovation 💡 as a joint center of the CSIC and the University of Seville. 🚀 Looking toward the challenges of the future! 🥂 Here’s to another 40 years of science and innovation!

🔬 ✨El 20 y 21 de julio, en Sevilla, celebraremos el simposio “Soft Materials for Emerging Optoelectronics”, organizado por Miguel Anaya y Susana Ramos, del SMSLab, en el marco de la XL Reunión Bienal de la Real Sociedad Española de Física. @rsef-esp.bsky.social

What an incredible afternoon yesterday! 🎉 The SMSLab team swapped the lab for a culinary escape room with #ColorsbybyExperiencity 👨‍🍳 👩‍🍳 We then wrapped up the day with our traditional Meme Competition: Summer Edition. Would you like to see some of the best memes? 👀

Our own Sol Carretero Palacios recently participated in the workshop Advances in Interfacial Forces and Casimir Interactions, held at Aspenäs Herrgård, Gothenburg. She presented her work on the role of Casimir–Lifshitz forces in ice premelting and interfacial water films.

A fantastic first step for Carmen into solid-state NMR! We are very excited about this new collaboration with Juan Carlos Muñoz and deeply grateful for his support and expertise. Many thanks as well to @iqf-csic.bsky.social and its technical staff for making these measurements possible!

Our own Jaime Bueno recently represented SMS Lab at Artificial Intelligence Photonics 2026 #AIPhotonics26 in San Sebastián @dipcehu.bsky.social. He presented his work highlighting how generative Al can help explore new photonic designs with tailored optical responses.

Earlier this month, our group leader, Miguel Anaya, participated as an invited speaker in El Camino de la Ciencia, a Young Researchers’ Meeting organised by the Real Academia Sevillana de Ciencias and the @unisevilla.us.es 🧵

¡No te puedes perder hoy a partir de las 13:00 horas a nuestra compañera Guadalupe Vega ( @smslab.bsky.social ) en riguroso directo hablando sobre materiales 2D! 🚨https://www.youtube.com/live/_zPNbqZcXvg

Last week, @buriedinthesun.bsky.social represented SMSLab at PRAD Workshop 2026, the European meeting on perovskite radiation detectors. Sol delivered an oral presentation entitled “Compositional design of multi-cation vacancy-ordered double perovskites for radiation detection”.

A few weeks ago, the SMSLab had an excellent retreat to Hoyos (hometown of Miguel)! We visited several towns in Extremadura, hiked a mountain, visited a castle, swam in a natural pool, ate some top-tier barbecue (thanks Miguel) and brought out our competitive spirits with board games.

Recently, Sol Fernández @buriedinthesun.bsky.social , Carmen Hidalgo, and Guadalupe Vega presented their thesis work at both the 1st ETSi Young Researchers Meeting 2026 @unisevilla.us.es and the 12th edition of Beer & Science, organised by the Faculty of Physics @fisicaus.bsky.social

We are elated to introduce Myrrelot Burggraaf, who joined our group as an Erasmus+ student from Universiteit Utrecht, where she is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Nanomaterials Science. 🧵

We are pleased to share the symposium “Soft Materials for Emerging Optoelectronics”, organized by our own Susana Ramos Terrón and Miguel Anaya within the framework of the RSEF Biennial Meeting 2026.

Would you like to enjoy a drink while learning something new? Next Monday, you are all warmly invited to Pint of Science Sevilla to attend the talk by Miguel Anaya: "Perovskites: Materials for the Energy of the Future"

This week, we had the pleasure of taking part in the Seville Science Fair with our colleagues from @icmsevilla.bsky.social , running experiments and interactive activities to bring materials science closer to younger generations.

Big shoutout to our owns Sol and Jaime, who represented our group last week at SPIE Photonics Europe 2026 in Strasbourg! It was great to see their work receive such positive feedback and spark exciting discussions with the photonics community.

We are elated to share that our Miguel Anaya has been featured in Químicos del Sur as one of the young researchers awarded in the 2024 edition of the Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla and Real Academia Sevillana de Ciencias Awards.

We are very happy to share that earlier this year, Victoria Esteso accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the @uclm.es (Albacete). We are looking forward to all the great things she will accomplish in this new stage of her career and are excited to keep collaborating!

Today we say goodbye (for now 😉) to the @diamondlightsource.bsky.social . Over the past six weeks, our own Guada has been working closely with the I141 beamline team, developing advanced algorithms for synchrotron data analysis and reconstruction.

Delighted to see Sol Carretero featured in the 2025 New Principal Investigators collection by the Royal Society of Chemistry! A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding work in nanophotonics and advanced optical materials. Congratulations, Sol! 👏 @icmm-csic.bsky.social @csic.es

Nanoscale Journals@nanoscale-journals.rsc.org · 5mo ago

🌟 Celebrating our 2025 New Principal Investigators 🌟 The Advances family of journals are delighted to share with you our special 2025 collection of New Principal Investigators. To find out more, explore our collection of blog posts here (blogs.rsc.org/nr/202...)

📢We are pleased to share that our group has been awarded a Proof of Concept project, PORETECTION. This project will shape a significant part of our work over the next two years. It will also open up opportunities for new investigation lines and collaborations.

We are pleased to share that doctoral student Sol Fernández recently completed a productive research stay at the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid (ICMM) in January. @icmm-csic.bsky.social @icmsevilla.bsky.social @fisicaus.bsky.social @unisevilla.us.es

We are proud to share that our Sol Carretero participated in the 5th Conference for the International Day of Gifted Children, joining a roundtable discussion on methodologies to promote more inclusive science and education. @icmm-csic.bsky.social @csic.es

We would like to warmly congratulate our own Guadalupe Vega on receiving the Youth Award for Scientific Culture, which Miguel Anaya collected on her behalf while she is currently working in the UK. This recognition highlights the excellent work Guada has carried out at the SMSLab at ICMS

Last week our own Sol Carretero and Jaime Bueno attended #NanoLight2026, where they were joined by colleagues from the nanophotonics community for several days of engaging discussions and new ideas.

Congratulations to all the students awarded the Real Maestranza de Caballería prizes for the best academic records at the @unisevilla.us.es Special congratulations to Irene Vigneron, who completed her Bachelor’s thesis with us at the @icmsevilla.bsky.social @fisicaus.bsky.social @csic.es

Great couple of weeks at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social carrying out experiments at the i07 GIWAXS beamline and ePSIC electron microscopy facility. 🔬 We are very grateful to the beamline teams for their support and to Diamond for their continued trust in our work.

We finally put the "ski" in perovskites: the first SMS Lab Ski Project 2026 has been successfully completed ❄️☃️. Plenty of snow, plenty of laughs, and we’re already planning the next trip!!! @fisicaus.bsky.social @unisevilla.us.es @icmsevilla.bsky.social