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13 UPC researchers distinguished in the 2025 Academia Excellence programme
<html> <body> <p> UPC research took centre stage in the latest call for the Government of Catalonia’s Academia Excellence programme (formerly ICREA Academia), securing 13 of the 50 grants awarded. The UPC thus becomes the institution with the most selected faculty ... </p> </body> </html>
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First tests of a subsea robot set to be integrated into the OBSEA observatory to monitor the seabed and create a digital twin
<html> <body> <p> On 19 November, researchers from the UPC’s Technological Development Centre for Remote Acquisition and Data Processing Systems began the initial testing of a robot designed to monitor the seabed at the port of Vilanova i la Geltrú. They aim to ... </p> </body> </html>
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Oriol Vinyals, honorary doctoral degree holder by the UPC: “AI allows us to focus on asking the right questions to advance science”
<html> <body> <p> On 26 November, the UPC conferred an honorary doctoral degree on researcher Oriol Vinyals, vice-president of Research at Google DeepMind. Professor Eduard Alarcón delivered the oration in praise of Vinyals’s achievements at an event held in the ... </p> </body> </html>
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Algorithms for cancer diagnosis, a greenhouse gas catalyst and the spin-off Virmedex receive awards
<html> <body> <p> The jury of the 15th UPC Research Valorisation Award has recognised DigiPatICS as the best technology transfer project, Permanently Polarized Hydroxyapatite as the best market-ready invention and Virmedex as the best technology-based company. A ... </p> </body> </html>