Ferran Paredes, researcher of CIMITEC, won the Rafael Campalans IEC Award of Engineering Sciences within the framework of the LXXXI Set of awards and scholarships, Sant Jordi 2012 Awards, awarded to the best thesis or research works prepared in Catalan language, for his thesis entitled ” Aplicació de les tecnologies metamaterials per a l’optimització de components per a sistemes d’identificació per radiofreqüència (RFID) ” (Application of metamaterial technologies for the optimization of components for Radiofrequency Identification (RFID)