On May 31st, 2013, MORElab member Pablo Orduña has been honored with the PhD. grade. It was entitled "Transitive and Scalable Federation Model for Remote Laboratories", and supervised by Javier García-Zubia. Below, in a photograph taken after the viva appear the jury panel, the candidate and his supervisor in the following order: jury panel was compounded by: Javier García-Zubia (supervisor), Manuel Castro (UNED), Judson Harward (Harvard University), Pablo Orduña, Carlos Delgado Kloos (UC3M), Luis Bellido (UPM), and Diego López-de-Ipiña (University of Deusto).