The UPV recognizes scientific excellence in the fourth edition of its Research Awards. Ivana Gasulla, Jaime Lloret and Germán Llorca awarded.
The Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) has celebrated the fourth edition of the Research Awards, a recognition of scientific excellence, innovation and commitment to society of the research staff of the UPV. On this occasion, 34 prizes were awarded in six categories: Award for excellent research impact; Award for excellent research publication; Award for excellent research career; Award for scientific dissemination; Award for research media impact and Award for knowledge transfer.
In addition, two special prizes were awarded, one of them to the Gandia Campus teacher Ivana Gasulla. Researcher at the iTeam institute, she was the winner in 2025 of the V edition of the Young Female Scientific Talent Award granted by the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences, among other merits. The scientist has stressed the importance of offering professional consolidation opportunities to research staff so that they can develop their career at the UPV.
As a novelty, in this edition of the UPV Research Awards, a new recognition has been introduced: to UPV research staff who have published in the following journals Science o Nature as a benchmark of international excellence. In the category Computer Science and Information Systems + Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the Excellent Research Publication Award, the following has been awarded
Deep Learning for Safe Autonomous Driving: Current Challenges and Future Directions by Khan Muhammad; Amin Ullah; Javier Del Ser; Victor Hugo C De Albuquerque; and Jaime Lloret the article’s principal investigator and professor at the Gandia Campus.
In previous editions
Jaime Lloret has already been awarded in previous editions. He obtained the award for excellent research career in the Computer Science category in 2022, the award for excellent research career in the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) category in 2023 and the award for excellent research impact in the Engineering (Biomedical Engineering/Electrical and Electronic Engineering/Media Technology) category in 2023.
Professor in Telematics Engineering, he directed the Research Institute for Integrated Coastal Zone Management (IGIC) from January 2017 to March 2025. Degree in Physical Sciences, specializing in Electricity, Electronics and Computer Science; Electronic Engineer and PhD in Telecommunications. Wireless sensor networks, P2P networks, network protocols and algorithms are some of the topics of his research.
It currently occupies first place in the area of Telecommunications at national level and a prominent position at national, European and world level in the most prestigious lists that evaluate the professional quality of research personnel.
UPV rewards people who countered the dana hoaxes
Finally, in the fourth edition of the Research Awards, the UPV has made a special recognition to those who carried out out outreach work during the dana to stop and counteract the hoaxes generated about the 29-O, offering “scientific, rigorous and contrasting” answers to the facts. Among the award-winning staff, the Gandia Campus professor Germán Llorca.
In this link The names of the winners of the 4th edition of the Research Awards are available for consultation.