On 24th November 2022, the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) awarded 20 prizes to different researchers and investigators belonging to the academic institution itself, as part of the 1st edition of the UPV Research Awards. These awards recognise the work of its most outstanding staff.
The award for the Excellent Research Career in the category of Mathematics was dominated by the I. U. of Multidisciplinary Mathematics, as the three candidates: Alicia Cordero, Néstor Thome and Juan Ramón Torregrosa; are members of this Institute. Finally, Professor Juan Ramón Torregrosa won the Excellent Career Award.
Also noteworthy is the nomination of Rafael Jacinto Villanueva and Juan Carlos Cortés for the Excellent Research Publication Award for their article “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 were 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 created with the aim of giving deserved recognition to the “enormous effort” of all the research staff at the heart of the UPV and to “motivate those 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 Internationalisation and Communication, José Francisco Monserrat, highlighted the “very high” level of the work 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.
