Thirty-two scientists from the Universitat Politècnica de València received awards at the third edition of the Research Awards, held in January 2025.
The gala began with a heartfelt tribute to the victims of the storm, with musical performances and a video of those days, accompanied by images from the Salvem les fotos project, in which the UPV is working to recover photographs damaged in the disaster.
Awards
Among the award winners, two people received special recognition, the outstanding researchers of 2024: Valery Naranjo, professor at the UPV and director of CVBLab, and José M. Adam, professor at the UPV and researcher at the ICITECH Institute.
In addition, thirty awards were presented, divided into six categories. The award for media impact of research went to Mª José Viñals and Concha López, from the PEGASO UPV centre, for their study on the impact of touristification on heritage. José Miguel Mulet, researcher at the IBMCP Institute (UPV-CSIC), was awarded the prize for scientific dissemination. Three awards were given for knowledge transfer in three different sub-disciplines: in Engineering and Technology, to José Manuel Catalá Civera, Beatriz García Baños and José Manuel Serra Alfaro; in Medicine and Health Sciences and Natural Sciences, to Alberto José Ferrer Riquelme and José Manuel Prats Montalbán; and in Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences and Architecture, to Francisca Ramón.
The awards for excellent research impact went to: Isabel Hernando Hernando, Mercedes Álvaro Rodríguez, Néstor Javier Thome Coppo, Óscar Vicente Meana, José Luis Hervás Oliver, Antonio García Martínez and Ángel Alejandro Juan Pérez.
In the category of excellent research publication, the award went to: Marisa Carrió Pastor, Borja Belda Palazón, Francisco Javier Jaén, Néstor Javier Thome, Jorge Alcaide Marzal and José Antonio Diego-Más, Verónica Saiz Rubio and Francisco Rovira Más, Tatiana García Segura and Eugenio Pellicer Armiñana, Josep Albero and Hermenegildo García, José Alfonso Antonino-Daviu and Alfredo Quijano López, and Paolo Rosso.
Informative monologues
Francisco Pedroche, researcher at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Mathematics (IMM) and winner of the first UPV scientific monologue competition; Mª Luz Gerbaudo, researcher at the UPV’s ICITECH Institute; and Carolina Ropero, UPV doctoral student and finalist in the national Solo de ciencia competition, put the icing on the cake at the gala with their respective monologues on infinite mathematics, resilient buildings and fantastic fungi, in an outstanding exercise in scientific dissemination.