Today, 5th of November was held the “la Caixa” Junior Leader Fellowship 2018 ceremony in Barcelona. Anna Ferré Mateu, Héctor Gil and Matteo Cerruti are the ICCUB researchers that have been awarded with this grant.

The awarded researchers work in several different fields such as: High Energy Astrophysics, Galaxy Evolution or Cosmology and Large Scale Structure.

Only 22 international postdoctoral researchers have been chosen to benefit from this excellence grant. The primary condition to receive it is to perform their research in a Severo Ochoa or María the Maeztu accredited centre, as the Institute of Cosmos Sciences. It is a recognition the Spanish government give to certain centres to reward its outstanding research.