Prof. Marc Garcia-Borràs has been awarded one of the four Young Investigator prize in the Group Leader category given by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (Real Sociedad Española de Química- RSEQ). These are individual awards designed to recognize young scientists (up to 40 years old, or 10 years after the PhD defense) that have shown scientific leadership in their area.

Marc Garcia-Borràs (Sant Feliu de Guíxols, 1988) has received several recognitions for his scientific achievements in recent years, including appointed as ICREA Research Professor (2026), an ERC Consolidator Grant (BioReInt project, 2025), , the “Emerging Scientific Talent 2025” Award from the Societat Catalana de Química, the Marcial Moreno-Mañas Award 2023 from the Catalan Section of the Spanish Royal Chemical Society (RSEQ), the Early Career Researcher RSEQ–Lilly Award 2024, and the ACS OpenEye/Cadence Outstanding Junior Faculty Award – Spring 2025 from the ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry. He was also a finalist for the European Young Chemist Award (EYCA) at the Early Career Researcher level (EuChemS, 2020) and received the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Postdoctoral Research Award in 2018.

Congratulations Marc!

Girona, April 28th 2026
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