Welcome Verónica!
2 February 2026

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Today we are excited to welcome Verónica Silva to our group! Verónica's PhD work, developed between INL, University of Vigo, and University of Lisbon, will focus on the monitoring of biotoxins in natural waters using SERS. During 6 months here at UVigo she will develop composite materials to be used as SERS substrates. We wish Verónica a successful stay! 

Team's Christmas Dinner

Vigo, 12 December 2025

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Along with the team, we enjoyed traditional Galician dishes for dinner and even had some fun playing bowling with all the laboratory members.

MemCat at the Eindhoven Workshop
Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 26-27 November 2025

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Laura, Balkaran, and Mohammad took part in the International Workshop on Sustainable and Circular Technologies.

Memcat meeting
Eindhoven, the Netherland, 24–25 November, 2025.

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Laura, Balkaran, and Mohammad at the MEMCAT 18M Consortium Meeting, held at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).

MemCat Meeting
Eindhoven, the Netherland,  20–21 November, 2025.

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​​Laura, Balkaran, and Mohammad participated in M6 Consortium MemCat Meeting hosted by 1CUBE in Eindhoven.

Win Best Poster Award at PTIM 2025 
Braga, Portugal, 17 November  2025

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Joana Araújo, PhD student in our team, Wins Best Poster Award at PTIM 2025 for Water Pollution Research. Congratulations!!
Read more here: Direct Link

Kuber talk
Vigo, 31 October 2025

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Kuber Singh Rawat from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, delivered an invited lecture entitled ‘Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks as Catalytic Platforms’  at the Department of Chemistry, University of Vigo, talking about design of COFs for photocatalysis. Thanks for the interesting talk!

CINBIO Seminar Program
Vigo, 30 October 2025

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CINBIO Seminar Programme with Dr. Yury V. Kolen'ko (INL - International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal): "Spin-Polarized Catalysts for Energy-Efficient AEM Water Electrolysis"​

Chiramel Meeting
Vigo, 30 October 2025

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EuroMOF  2025
Heraklion, Greece, 21-24 September  2025

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Miguel, Joana, Clara and Balkaran participated in the 6th European Conference on Metal Organic Frameworks and Porous Polymers (EuroMOF 2025) with poster presentations, and Laura gave a talk on "Synthesis strategies to pi-extended covalent organic frameworks".

 VIII Cinbio annual meeting
Vigo, Spain, 10-11 July 2025

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Balkaran, Tania, Mohammad and Maedeh participated in the 8th Cinbio annual meeting on "Nanotechnology & Biomedicine: where science meets the future" as poster presentations.

XL Biennial Meeting 
Bilbao, Spain, 30 June-3 July 2025

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The XL Biennial Meeting of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry kicks off! The Porous Materials Symposium, organized by José Sánchez Costa and Laura Salonen, is about to begin. We have an exciting lineup of invited speakers and enjoyed the delicious food of Bilbao.

MemCat meeting
Braga, Portugal, 7–8 May, 2025

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Laura, Balkaran, and Mohammad during their participation in the MEMCAT 12M Consortium Meeting, hosted by INL-International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory.

International Lunch
Vigo, 27 March 2025

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As an international group, we gather together to try different meals from our own country such as Spain, Finland, Iran, India and China which were prepared by the members of the group.

MemCat Project in Local News
Vigo,Spain,12 February 2025

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University of Vigo’s Participation in the European MemCat Project for Green Ethylene Production:
Read more here: Direct Link

HNG Group

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Team's Christmas night
Vigo, 29  November 2024

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Along with the team members, we walked around the city, visited the Christmas lights in Vigo, and enjoyed traditional Galician dishes for Christmas dinner. It was a fun and memorable time together!