Leonardo Scarabelli, former CIC biomaGUNE PhD student, awarded with the First prize for the best doctoral thesis of the Specialized Group on Nanoscience and Molecular Materials of the Spanish Royal Societies of Chemistry for the thesis entitled "Rational synthesis and self-assembly of anisotropic plasmonic nanoparticles" supervised by Luis M. Liz Marzán (Bionanoplasmonics Laboratory).

The NANOMATMOL award recognizes the best PhD thesis of the young researchers from the Specialized Group in Nanoscience and Molecular Materials (NANOMATMOL) from the RSEQ and RSEF. The aims of this award are to recognize the creativity and the work done by these young researchers, and to encourage other researchers to become members of the group. The prize consists of 1000 € for the winner, and 250 € for the two runner-ups.