Carlos Dorronsoro awarded by the Royal Spanish Society of Physics and BBVA Foundation
Carlos Dorronsoro, co-founder of 2EyesVision and co-inventor of the SimVis technology, received the ‘Physics, Innovation and Technology Award‘ on December 12th 2019, for developing and transferring optical technologies with a high social and economic impact.
Carlos Dorronsoro received the Physics, Innovation and Technology Award by the Royal Spanish Society of Physics (RSEF) and BBVA Foundation in a ceremony that took place at Marqués de Salamanca Palace (Madrid) on December 11 and was presided by RSEF President, José Adolfo de Azcárraga, and BBVA Foundation Director, Rafael Pardo.
During his intervention, Carlos Dorronsoro has remembered the support provided by the RSEF when being a brilliant student of Physics had serious health problems: “My career in Physics started off on a wrong foot. I spent a lot of time with oncologists, traumatologists, radiologists or radiophysicists, and I realized that Physics is not just something theoretical [but] a powerful tool that solves problems, and saves lives. (…) In hospitals I also learned that (…) a bad file closes your doors of science.”
His career has been always driven by creating bridges between the academic and industrial worlds. His research has sought scientific, social, clinical and economic impact.
Throughout his career, Dorronsoro has worked as a scientist, technologist, entrepreneur and manager, to bring to the market the technologies resulting from his research. He began his career in the industry and then “returned to the academic world, but always thinking about the social dimension of research results”, he said. He has co-founded four companies and is co-inventor of 21 patents in refractive and cataract surgery, image processing and microscopy, among other areas.
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