The King and the Queen of Spain presented the 2023 National Research Awards on March 14th, 2024 at the Ducal Palace in Gandía, Valencia. 

The Leonardo Torres Quevedo Award is the highest research award in Engineering in Spain and was granted to Prof. LLorca ““for the pioneering nature and leadership of his research in the field of Computational Materials Engineering.” His contribution to the development of novel multi-scale modeling strategies, which have had a tremendous impact on various industrial sectors, was also highlighted.