Two UC3M professors, Jesús Gonzalo and Daniel García, win the 2025 Research Awards from the Community of Madrid
The “Julián Marías” Award for scientific career and the “Miguel Catalán” Award for researchers under 40, respectively.
11/14/25
The Regional Ministry of Education, Science and Universities of the Community of Madrid (CM) has announced the winners of its 2025 Research Awards. Among the winners are two professors from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M): Professor Jesús Gonzalo Muñoz, from the University's Department of Economics, who receives the CM's “Julián Marías” Research Award for scientific career in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences; and Associate Professor Daniel García González, from the Department of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Theory at UC3M, who has been awarded the CM's “Miguel Catalán” Research Prize for researchers under the age of forty in the field of Science.
In the scientific career category, with a prize of €42,000, these awards recognize the achievements, training in the field of knowledge, and national and international impact of the winner throughout their career. In contrast, the award for researchers under 40 highlights the quality and excellence of the work carried out up to that age and carries a prize of €21,000. The decision on these awards has been published in the Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid (BOCM) number 271 of November 13.
Jesús Gonzalo Muñoz (Madrid, 1958) has been a Professor in the area of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis in the Department of Economics at UC3M since 2003. He received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1991. He was a professor for five years at Boston University in Massachusetts, also in the US. His research focuses on the areas of econometrics and climate change. He has more than 7,900 citations on Google Scholar and ranks in the top 3% and 5% worldwide in most of the impact indicators for RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) publications. In addition, two of his articles are among the top 1% of the most cited articles in economics. He is a Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics and the International Association of Applied Econometrics.
Daniel García González (Leganés, 1992) is an associate professor in the Department of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Theory at UC3M, where he directs the MULTIBIOSTRUCTURES Lab, focused on the development of multifunctional materials and their application in biomechanics, soft robotics, and mechanobiology. An industrial engineer and PhD from UC3M, he completed a postdoc at the University of Oxford, where he studied the mechanical behavior of brain tissues and their functional response. He is the principal investigator of an ERC Starting Grant (4D-BIOMAP; GA 947723) and two ERC Proof of Concept grants (MAGMATED, GA 101247449; ISBIOMECH, GA 101081713), in addition to several national projects and international collaborations. He has been awarded the Matilde Ucelay National Research Prize for Young People, is co-founder of the spin-off 60Nd S.L., and is a member and current secretary general of the Young Academy of Spain.
