SPB has participated as a preferred sponsor in the first edition of the Avelino Corma Awards. These awards recognise the seven best Chemical Engineering Master’s Degree Final Projects from all over Spain.
The awards ceremony took place on 2 March at the Veles e Vents building in Valencia and was attended by Miguel Burdeos, President of SPB Global, Amparo Andreu and Eva Giner, Innovation Manager. Miguel Burdeos, who was part of the jury, presented the award to Samuel Navajas Valiente, best TFM in the category Environmental Applications of Chemical Engineering.
The aim of these awards is to make the work of promising young chemical engineers visible and to encourage and support their work. “We want to retain talent in the Valencian Community and if these awards serve as a catalyst for this, we will have achieved our main objective,” said Miguel Burdeos in his speech.
We want to retain talent in the Valencian Community and if these awards serve as a catalyst for this, we will have achieved our main objective.
Miguel Burdeos, President of SPB Global
Avelino Corma also received the honorary award for Scientific Excellence from the Official Association of Chemical Engineers of the Valencian Community (COIQCV) and the Official Association of Chemical Engineering Professionals of Castilla-La Mancha (COPIQCLM).
A life dedicated to science
Professor Avelino Corma (Moncófar, 1951) has devoted his career to research in Heterogeneous Catalysis. He has published more than 1400 articles in journals all over the world, has written three books and is the author of more than 200 patents, many of them successfully applied in the industrial sector.
He has won numerous international awards and recognitions, including the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research in 2014, the Rei Jaume I Award in 2000 and the Order of Civil Merit of Spain in 2002.
