{"id":19324,"date":"2025-09-26T20:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/?p=19324"},"modified":"2026-08-10T00:23:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:23:45","slug":"curbelo-guillen-premios-investigacion-20252025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/curbelo-guillen-premios-investigacion-20252025\/","title":{"rendered":"Jezabel Curbelo and Montserrat Guillen, national research awards 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The female professors Jezabel Curbelo Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong> i Montserrat Guillen Estany<\/strong>, both members of the Catalan Society of Mathematics, have been awarded the National Research Awards<\/strong><\/a> granted by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. This recognition highlights their scientific excellence and reflects the vitality and international projection of Catalan research.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jezabel Curbelo Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, professor at the Department of Mathematics of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia<\/a> and researcher at the Centre for Mathematical Research<\/a>, has been awarded the National Research Award for Young Researchers \u201cMaria Andresa Casamayor\u201d<\/strong>. This recognition distinguishes researchers under 40 who have achieved outstanding merits in the early stages of their academic careers, in the category of Mathematics and Information and Communication Technologies.<\/p>\n

Montserrat Guillen Estany,<\/strong> professor at the Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona, has received the National Research Award \u201cPascual Madoz\u201d, <\/strong>an award that recognizes her long scientific career and the international relevance of her contributions in the category of Law and Economic and Social Sciences.<\/p>\n

Jezabel Curbelo, with a career that shows exceptional scientific leadership<\/h5>\n

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Her research combines applied mathematics, geophysics and fluid dynamics<\/strong>, with an original approach that integrates theoretical, computational and applied tools. Among her most recognized contributions are the development of Lagrangian descriptors, the definition of the kinematic edge of the polar vortex and the Lagrangian jet. These advances have opened new perspectives in the study of planetary internal dynamics, oceanic and stratospheric circulation, as well as in highly complex areas such as climatology or the prediction of turbulent flows.<\/p>\n

She is currently the youngest female professor <\/strong>at the UPC. With over 70 invited lectures at prestigious institutions such as Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, ENS-Lyon or NASA JPL, and with over 40 international collaborators, Curbelo has placed her research at the global forefront. Her works have been published in high-impact journals, some highlighted as cover stories, and have had repercussions in general media. She has secured funding exceeding half a million euros in highly competitive projects, has mentored over 20 students and currently supervises a postdoctoral researcher and a doctoral thesis. She is also an editor of leading international journals and Science Officer<\/em> of the Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics<\/em> division of the European Geosciences Union.<\/p>\n

Her talent and leadership have been recognized with numerous awards, including the Donald L. Turcotte Award from the American Geophysical Union<\/strong> \u2014the only person from Catalonia and Spain to receive it\u2014, the Vicent Caselles Award from RSME-FBBVA, the Antonio Valle Award from SEMA and the L'Or\u00e9al-UNESCO \u201cFor Women in Science\u201d, where she was the first mathematician to receive it.<\/p>\n

The prize Maria Andresa Casamayor <\/strong>highlights both the emerging career and the scientific impact, and aims to encourage the continuity of high-level research among new generations. In this case, the award recognizes the significant advances of Dr. Curbelo in the field of applied mathematics to geophysics and fluid dynamics<\/strong>, with special emphasis on the study of convection with temperature-dependent viscosity, and on the identification of structures in geophysical flows using cutting-edge techniques such as \u201cLagrangian descriptors\u201d.
\nThe award jury was chaired by Eva Ortega Pa\u00edno, with Enrique Fern\u00e1ndez Picazo as secretary and Ver\u00f3nica Bol\u00f3n Canedo, Ricardo Vinuesa, Jes\u00fas Mar\u00eda Sanz Serna, Mario Gerardo Piattini Velthuis and Peregrina Quintela Est\u00e9vez as members.<\/p>\n

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Montserrat Guillen, with a solid mathematical background, a pioneer in integrating quantitative methods with Big Data and AI\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Montserrat Guillen Estany<\/strong> holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Barcelona, where she also earned a PhD in Economic and Business Sciences, and studied Economics at the University of Cambridge. She also holds a Master's in Data Analysis for Social Sciences from the University of Essex. She is currently also an honorary professor at City, University of London and has been a visiting researcher at centers such as the University of Texas at Austin, Paris-Sorbonne-Panth\u00e9on and Berkeley.<\/p>\n

Her research focuses on\u2019actuarial statistics and quantitative risk management<\/strong>, and she is considered a pioneer in integrating quantitative methods with Big Data and artificial intelligence<\/strong>, applied to fields of high social impact such as longevity, automobile driving, financial contagion and climate change. She is the first woman in the world in number of citations in actuarial sciences<\/strong> and holds the second position in the international ranking of researchers in risk and insurance.<\/p>\n

Throughout her career she has been director of Riskcenter-UB<\/strong>, has chaired the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists<\/strong> of the Geneva Association and was the first woman to direct an open access statistics journal (SORT-Statistics and Operations Research Transactions<\/em>). She is currently editor-in-chief of the North American Actuarial Journal<\/strong>, the scientific publication of the Society of Actuaries<\/em> in the United States, being the first woman and the first non-American person<\/strong> to hold this position. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the MAPFRE Foundation and of various academies, such as the Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences<\/strong> of the Institute of Spain.<\/p>\n

She has been recognized with distinctions such as the\u2019ICREA Acad\u00e8mia<\/strong> (2011 and 2018), the Julio Castelo International Insurance Award<\/strong> (2004) and the International Insurance Award of the Casualty Actuarial Society<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

From the SCM we are proud of our members, who with their achievements show the vitality and projection of the Catalan scientific community.<\/p>\n

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Les catedr\u00e0tiques Jezabel Curbelo Hern\u00e1ndez i Montserrat Guillen Estany, totes dues membres de la Societat Catalana de Matem\u00e0tiques, han estat distingides amb els Premis Nacionals d\u2019Investigaci\u00f3 atorgats pel pel Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaci\u00f3n y Universidades. Un reconeixement que posa en valor la seva excel\u00b7l\u00e8ncia cient\u00edfica i que reflecteix la vitalitat i la projecci\u00f3 internacional de […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[79,232],"class_list":["post-19324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recerca","category-altres-premis","tag-destacat","tag-premios-nacionales"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19324"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19333,"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19324\/revisions\/19333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}