Dr. Lourdes Vega, MATGAS Director and R&D Director at Carburos Metalicos has received 2013 The Royal Spanish Society of Physics (RSEF) and the BBVA Foundation Award on Physics Innovation and Technology Award. The award recognizes applied research which has enabled technological innovation or promoted physics applications in the corporate world. In this edition the committee has recognized “the outstanding, original and creative way in which she has steered the theoretical and computational research in statistical physics, a branch of basic physics, to the industrial world, in which she has occupied important positions of leadership."

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