{"id":23838,"date":"2026-07-13T08:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials.imdea.org\/groups\/bcd\/?p=23838"},"modified":"2026-07-13T08:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:33:41","slug":"celebrating-the-first-soft-matter-meeting-at-imdea-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materials.imdea.org\/groups\/bcd\/celebrating-the-first-soft-matter-meeting-at-imdea-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the First Soft Matter (SOMA) Summer Meeting at IMDEA Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u2728 The BCD Group at SOMA \u2728<\/p>

Two of our group members, Francesca Antonella Sep\u00falveda Espinoza<\/a> and Luis Calero Lumbreras<\/a>, together with Juan Pedro Fernandez Blazquez<\/a>, organized the 1st edition of the Soft Matter Meeting (SOMA) at IMDEA Materials.<\/p>

The event brought together researchers working on different aspects of soft matter, creating a fantastic opportunity to exchange ideas, discuss ongoing research, and strengthen scientific connections across the institute.<\/p>

Among the excellent presentations, we were especially pleased to see two members of the BCD Group sharing their research:<\/p>

\ud83c\udfa4 Invited Speaker – M\u00f3nica Echeverry-Rend\u00f3n – <\/a>The Biomaterial Discovery Toolbox<\/p>

\ud83c\udfa4 Francesca Antonella Sep\u00falveda Espinoza – <\/a>Designing Multifunctional Hydrogel Scaffolds: From Network Architecture to Light Response<\/p>

It was a pleasure to see M\u00f3nica share the BCD Group’s vision and research approach, and to learn about Francesca’s exciting work on hydrogels.<\/p>

\ud83d\udc4f Congratulations to Francesca, Luis, and Juan Pedro for the successful organization of this first edition, and thanks to all the participants who made the event such an enriching experience.<\/p>

Looking forward to the next edition! \ud83d\ude80<\/p>

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\u2728 The BCD Group at SOMA \u2728 Two of our group members, Francesca Antonella Sep\u00falveda Espinoza and Luis Calero Lumbreras, together with Juan Pedro Fernandez Blazquez, organized the 1st edition of the Soft Matter Meeting (SOMA) at IMDEA Materials. The event brought together researchers working on different aspects of soft matter, creating a fantastic opportunity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.imdea.org\/groups\/bcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.imdea.org\/groups\/bcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.imdea.org\/groups\/bcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.imdea.org\/groups\/bcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.imdea.org\/groups\/bcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23838"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/materials.imdea.org\/groups\/bcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23856,"href":"https:\/\/materials.imdea.org\/groups\/bcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23838\/revisions\/23856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.imdea.org\/groups\/bcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.imdea.org\/groups\/bcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.imdea.org\/groups\/bcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.imdea.org\/groups\/bcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}