The Catalan Minister for Research and Universities, Núria Montserrat, presided over the Narcís Monturiol awards ceremony on Monday 17 February. This year, the Narcís Monturiol Medal for scientific and technological merit was given to the UB professors Jordi Alberch and Petia Radeva. The Government of Catalonia has awarded these prizes, instituted in 1982, to a total of ten researchers from the Catalan knowledge system for their contribution to the development of science and technology. The Narcís Monturiol plaque, which recognizes a Catalan institution, has been awarded to the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia (MAC), a centre of national reference in the research, conservation and dissemination of Catalan archaeological heritage.
3 members of the UB have been awarded the Narcís Monturiol Medal, promoted by the Government of Catalonia, which highlights individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of science and technology in Catalonia.
Jordi Alberch Vié is a professor at the Department of Biomedicine of the UB’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Science and leads, since 2017, the UB Institute of Neurosciences (UBneuro), an institution twice awarded the María de Maeztu Excellence Unit by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. He is the director of research groups of the Clinic Barcelona – IDIBAPS Research Foundation and the Network Center for Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED). He was the president of the Spanish Society of Neurosciences (SENC) from 2015 to 2017, and he is internationally known in the study of physiopathology and the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and, specifically, Huntington’s disease, an activity he was mainly carried out at the UB and other research centres in the United States and Europe.
Petia Radeva is a professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and a member of the UB Institute of Mathematics (IMUB) and the Institute of Neurosciences (UBneuro). With a degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and a PhD in Computer Science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, she is principal investigator of the consolidated research group Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Applications (AIBA) at the UB, manager of the Spanish State Research Agency of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and editor-in-chief of the journal Pattern Recognition. She has focused her research in the fields of machine/deep learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence applied to health.
