15/07/2026
The tenth Olivier Kahn International Award goes to Dr. Samuel Mañas-Valero for his work on 2D molecular magnetism. Congratulations!
The European Institute of Molecular Magnetism and the members of the Olivier Kahn Award International Jury are pleased to announce that the laureate of the tenth Olivier Kahn International award is Dr. Samuel Mañas-Valero from University of Valencia.
The 2026 laureate, Dr Samuel Mañas-Valero, is an experimental physicist, who is pioneering the crossover between molecular magnetism and two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials, and van der Waals heterostructures of a few or single atomic-size layers.