Aitor Villafranca Velasco, National Research Award for Young Angela Ruiz Robles in Knowledge Transfer
Aitor Villafranca is a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Optics Daza de Valdés of the CSIC.
It has been awarded for the impact of its scientific trajectory and its transfer in the field of integrated optics and photonics. The jury has highlighted the large number of patent families it has obtained, several graduates and others developed in public-private collaboration.
He has also highlighted the creation by the award-winning company, being its only founding scientific partner, focused on the development of integrated photonic circuits. And, finally, it has valued its ability to transfer knowledge to society in the form of education and dissemination.