Publication for UPC doctoral students |
| February 28th, 2025. No. 3 |
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Fundación Carolina 2025 Scholarships for Full Doctorates and Doctoral Stays |
Fundación Carolina has opened the 2025 scholarship call for doctoral studies and stays. The application deadline is 3rd April. Applicants must be nationals of one of the Latin American countries that are part of the Ibero-American Community of Nations. |
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| New Call for Industrial Doctorate Grants — DI 2025 |
The new call for Industrial Doctorate grants has been published, aimed at providing funding to universities, research centres, and hospital foundations, as well as companies, for the development of an industrial doctorate project in any field of knowledge and any business sector. |
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Merck Innovation Programme and Featured Visiting Fellowships on Trialect |
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Virtual tours of cities around the world with UPC doctoral students |
Would you like to guide your fellow UPC colleagues on a virtual tour of your city? UPCArts is organising this activity, which makes use of computers with advanced graphics capabilities along with Meta Quest 3 and 3S virtual reality headsets. Get involved and share the hidden gems of your city! If you’d like to participate, contact us at escola.doctorat@upc.edu. |
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| UPC Virtual Postgraduate Fair |
Registrations are still open for the 3rd UPC Virtual Postgraduate Fair, which will take place from March 3rd to 7th. This online fair will provide information about the University's postgraduate study programmes, including master's degrees, Doctoral programmes, and continuing education master's degrees. |
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1st Conference on Gender Perspective in Research and Knowledge Transfer |
On March 17th, UPC will host the 1st Conference on Gender Perspective in Research and Knowledge Transfer, where the gender equality strategy in science, its implementation at UPC, and the results of the survey on gender perspective in research at UPC will be presented. The event will feature the Director of the Doctoral School, Cristina Canal, who will take part in a roundtable discussion on how to apply the gender perspective in research and knowledge transfer. Attendance at the event will be certified by the Doctoral School as an activity within the Cross-disciplinary Training Plan. You can register via the following form. |
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New Research Cafè: Digital Twins |
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Cross-disciplinary training1st edition of the Your thesis in 3 minutes contest |
As part of the XI Unite! Dialogue: Students our soul, our core agenda, the first edition of a new contest took place on February 26th, in which 15 doctoral candidates from the universities of the UNITE! alliance competed by presenting, in a simple and accessible way for a non-specialist audience, the content of their research.
The UPC was represented by Patricia Victoria López Gómez, a doctoral candidate in the Biomedical Engineering programme, with the presentation From Lab to Life: how Hydrogels are changing medicine, and Guillem López Paradís, a doctoral candidate in the Computer Architecture programme, with the talk The case for data centre hyperloops. The jury announced the winners during the Plenary Session of the XI Dialogue on 28th February, and the results were:
🥇 1st place: Nuno Miguel Cabecinhas Gonçalves (Universidade de Lisboa)
🥈 2nd place: Patricia Victoria López Gómez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
🥉 3rd place: Nuno Ricardo de Oliveira Jordão (Universidade de Lisboa)
From the Doctoral School, we congratulate all the participants for their effort and their excellent presentations. Congratulations! |
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| XXVIII Call for the J. García-Siñeriz Awards (2023-2025) |
Once again, we invite you to participate in the new call for the J. García-Siñeriz Geophysics Award, granted to the best doctoral thesis in geophysics completed at Spanish or Ibero-American universities. |
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Changes in the Doctoral School's leadership |
We inform you that, as of 1st February, there have been some changes in the leadership team of the Doctoral School. The former secretary of the School, Dr. Lluís Jofre Cruanyes, has taken on the role of deputy director. He is being succeeded by Dr. Jordi Pons Prats as the new academic secretary.
We wish the deputy director and the new academic secretary the best of luck in this new stage! |
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New Bluesky Account for the Doctoral School |
The Governing Council approved that UPC will no longer use the social media X (formerly known as Twitter) for its institutional communication. This decision is in response to changes in the platform's direction, which have affected the veracity of information and moved it away from democratic values. This contradicts the principles of UPC, such as academic rigour, freedom, respect, ethics, and social responsibility.
These changes have sparked a public debate about the use of X. Several institutions, media outlets, and European universities have closed their accounts on the platform.
The Doctoral School will stop publishing on X to maintain communication in environments that guarantee the quality and veracity of information. You can follow us on Instagram and on our new Bluesky account. |
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| Luis Alejandro Pinzón Ureña, former UPC doctoral student, awarded the World Prize for Doctoral Thesis in Geophysics |
The J. García-Siñeriz Foundation, a charitable-educational institution that promotes studies and research in Geophysics, has published the results of the XXVI Call (2019-2021) for the World Prize for Doctoral Thesis in Geophysics. The awardee is Luis Alejandro Pinzón Ureña, a former doctoral student at UPC who has become academic of international prestige. |
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Stay tuned at doctorat.upc.edu! |
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