The Master’s Degree in Chemistry at the Interface with Biology and Materials Science (ChemBio&Mat) held its closing events last week, marking the end of its sixth edition. On Friday, January 30, students defended their Master’s Dissertations at CiQUS, presenting the results of the research projects they developed throughout the programme before the academic evaluation committee.
Once again, the defended projects highlighted the interdisciplinary nature of the master’s programme and the diversity of the students’ backgrounds, with research topics spanning the interface between chemistry, biology and materials science. Francisco Rivadulla, coordinator of the programme, emphasised the effort made by the students over the past months, noting that “this moment should not be seen as an end, but as the beginning of a new stage, both in your personal lives and in your scientific careers”.
During the closing ceremony, the coordinator also underlined the importance of the transversal skills acquired during the programme. “Over these eighteen months, you have gained not only specific scientific knowledge, but also essential tools for your future, such as critical thinking, scientific communication and the ability to tackle complex problems”, he remarked, encouraging the students as they move on to the next stage of their careers, whether in academia or industry.
The closing programme concluded with a farewell lecture by Prof. Juan Bisquert, Distinguished Research Professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ, UPV-CSIC), entitled Mimicking intelligence: Materials and Devices for Unconventional Computation, which focused on the development of materials and devices inspired by biological processes for unconventional computing architectures.
With the graduation of this sixth cohort, the ChemBio&Mat Master’s programme further consolidates its position as a distinctive training programme closely linked to the excellence research carried out at CiQUS.
