FIB professors Antonio González and Víctor Rotger, together with UPC researchers Oriol Gomis and Jordi Llorca, have received the ICREA Acadèmia 2019 distinctions. The Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) grants them a five-year funding award to promote excellence in research in their respective fields.
Antonio González, full professor in the Department of Computer Architecture and professor at FIB, receives this distinction for the second time, having first been awarded in 2014. González leads the Microarchitecture and Compilers research group (ARCO), and his research focuses on robust and energy-efficient architectures for general-purpose computers, graphics processors and systems for cognitive computing.
Víctor Rotger, professor at the Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB) and the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics (FME), and member of the Number Theory research group (TN), will use the award to investigate new results related to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems proposed by the Clay Mathematics Institute.
Oriol Gomis is a full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at UPC and a lecturer at the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB). He is also a researcher at the Technological Innovation Centre in Static Converters and Drives (CITCEA) and will use the funding to study the challenges posed by the massive integration of power electronics into the electrical system. Jordi Llorca, full professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, researcher at the Institute for Energy Technologies, director of the Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, and head of the Nanoengineering of Materials Applied to Energy (NEMEN) research group, has received the distinction for the third time. On this occasion, Llorca is recognized for his research on the fundamental study and use of catalysts in the fields of energy and the environment.
The ICREA Academia programme was launched in 2008 with the aim of promoting and rewarding research excellence among professors at Catalan public universities, helping to support researchers with fully active research careers.
