On November 24, 2022, the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) granted 20 awards to different researchers belonging to the academic institution itself, as part of the 1st edition of the UPV Research Awards. These awards recognize the work of its most outstanding staff.
The Excellent Research Career Award in the category of Mathematics was dominated by the University Institute of Multidisciplinary Mathematics, since all three candidates, Alicia Cordero, Néstor Thome and Juan Ramón Torregrosa, are members of this Institute. Finally, Professor Juan Ramón Torregrosa was awarded the prize for Outstanding Career Achievement.
From left to right: Néstor Thome, Rafael Jacinto Villanueva, Juan Ramón Torregrosa, Alicia Cordero and Juan Carlos Cortés.
Also noteworthy is the nomination of Rafael Jacinto Villanueva and Juan Carlos Cortés for the Excellent Research Publication Award for their paper Computational uncertainty quantification for random time-discrete epidemiological models using adaptive gPC. DOI: 10.1002/mma.5315.
In this first edition of the UPV Research Awards, a total of 48 nominations have been submitted for the 18 different categories, all of them related to research work. In the words of the rector of the UPV, José E. Capilla, these awards were born with the aim of deservedly recognizing the “enormous effort” of all the research staff within the UPV and to “motivate those who are in training”. “We are a university enormously committed to research, we are in the top positions in many of the rankings in this aspect and this initiative reinforces our commitment,” said Capilla. For his part, the vice-rector for Internationalization and Communication, José Francisco Monserrat, highlighted the “very high” level of the works presented, as a result of the “very strict” requirements that had to be met, according to the terms of the call. “And even more so in a year in which all UPV records in research activity have been broken,” Monserrat added.