{"id":555,"date":"2024-10-31T11:14:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T10:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/?p=555"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:15:00","slug":"prof-francisco-j-garcia-vidal-receives-the-miguel-catalan-award-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/news\/prof-francisco-j-garcia-vidal-receives-the-miguel-catalan-award-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Francisco J. Garc\u00eda Vidal receives the Miguel Catal\u00e1n Award 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-556 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/FJ_Miguel_Catalan_2024.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. Francisco J. Garc\u00eda Vidal receives the Miguel Catal\u00e1n Award 2024 - Featured\" width=\"840\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/FJ_Miguel_Catalan_2024.jpg 840w, https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/FJ_Miguel_Catalan_2024-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/FJ_Miguel_Catalan_2024-768x343.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>t is our pleasure to congratulate <strong>Prof. Francisco Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda-Vidal<\/strong> for winning the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bocm.es\/boletin\/CM_Orden_BOCM\/2024\/10\/25\/BOCM-20241025-11.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miguel Catalan Prize<\/a> of the Community of Madrid in 2024. FJ, as he is known at IFIMAC, is a pioneering physicist, known for his groundbreaking work in classical and quantum nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metamaterials. For his research achievements, FJ has obtained other prestigious awards, such as the Jaume I Prize for Basic Research and the Spanish National Research Prize Blas Cabrera, in recent years. FJ was the founding director (2012-2021) of our institute, and his role was pivotal in the winning of the Mar\u00eda de Ma\u00e9ztu Excellence Distinctions that IFIMAC obtained in 2014 and 2018. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uam.es\/uam\/noticias\/francisco-garcia-vidal-premio-miguel-catalan-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>We congratulate Prof. Francisco Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda-Vidal!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is our pleasure to congratulate Prof. Francisco Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda-Vidal for winning the Miguel Catalan Prize of the Community of Madrid in 2024. FJ, as he is known at IFIMAC, is a pioneering physicist, known for his groundbreaking work in classical and quantum nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metamaterials. For his research achievements, FJ has obtained other&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-miguel-catalan-award-2024","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/fjgarcia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}