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Elections in departments and research institutes

30 departments and 11 research institutes have elected the person who will lead them for the next six years.

[ 13/02/2025 ]

On 12 February 2025, 48 elections were held at the UPV. In addition to the election of the rector and the heads of six schools, the university community elected the people who will head 30 departments and 11 university research institutes.

Directors of University Research Institutes

According to the provisional scrutiny data, the elected individuals are:

  1. Institute of Automation and Industrial Informatics: Ramón Manuel Blasco Giménez
  2. Institute of Science and Animal Technology: Juan José Pascual Amorós
  3. Institute of Conservation and Improvement of Valencian Agrobiodiversity: Adrián Rodríguez Burruezo
  4. Institute of Multidisciplinary Mathematics: Juan Carlos Cortés López
  5. Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics: Jose Manuel Calabuig Rodríguez
  6. Institute of Heritage Restoration: María Victoria Vivancos Ramón
  7. Institute of Industrial Safety, Radiophysics, and Environmental Studies: José Antonio Mendoza Roca
  8. Institute of Information Technology and Communications: María Salud Guillem Sánchez
  9. Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications: Eva Antonino Daviu
  10. Institute of Food Engineering - Food UPV: María Desamparados Vargas Colás
  11. Institute of Energy Engineering: José María Gonzálvez Maciá

Department Directors

These are the provisional results of the department director elections:

  1. Department of Animal Science: Maria del Pilar Hernández Pérez
  2. Department of Architectural Composition: Camila Mileto
  3. Department of Audiovisual Communication, Documentation, and Art History: Luisa Nuria Ramón Marqués
  4. Department of Communications: Ignacio Bosch Roig
  5. Department of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage: José Antonio Madrid García
  6. Department of Architectural Constructions: Jaime Llinares Millán
  7. Department of Drawing: Francisco José Berenguer Frances
  8. Department of Agroforestry Ecosystems: Josep Armengol Fortí
  9. Department of Construction Engineering and Civil Engineering Projects: Ignacio Javier Payá Zaforteza
  10. Department of Systems Engineering and Automation: Ángel Miguel Cuenca Lacruz
  11. Department of Transport and Terrain Engineering: Tomás Ruiz Sánchez
  12. Department of Electrical Engineering: Elías José Hurtado Pérez
  13. Department of Electronic Engineering: Marcos Antonio Martínez Peiró
  14. Department of Graphic Engineering: Ignacio Tortajada Montañana
  15. Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering: Javier Rodrigo Ilarri
  16. Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Enrique Giménez Torres
  17. Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering: José Felipe Villanueva López
  18. Department of Rural and Agri-Food Engineering: Borja Velázquez Martí
  19. Department of Textile and Paper Engineering: Pablo Díaz García
  20. Department of Sculpture: Moisés Mañas Carbonell
  21. Department of Architectural Graphic Expression: Marina Sender Contell
  22. Department of Applied Physics: María del Carmen Muñoz Roca
  23. Department of Computer Systems and Computation: Juan Luís Posadas Yagüe
  24. Department of Business Organization: Gabriela Ribes Giner
  25. Department of Plant Production: Salvador Vicente López Galarza
  26. Department of Architectural Projects: José Manuel Barrera Puigdollers
  27. Department of Engineering Projects: Salvador Fernando Capuz Rizo
  28. Department of Computer Systems and Computing: María Carmen Penadés Gramage
  29. Department of Food Technology: Ángel Luís Argüelles Foix
  30. Department of Urbanism: María Emilia Casar Furió

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