{"id":20734,"date":"2026-07-02T17:32:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/?p=20734"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:32:27","slug":"beques-leonardo-2026-matematiques-catalunya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/beques-leonardo-2026-matematiques-catalunya\/","title":{"rendered":"Three researchers from Catalan universities receive the 2026 Leonardo Grants from the BBVA Foundation in Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong data-start=\"922\" data-end=\"963\">The Leonardo 2026 Mathematics Grants<\/strong> have recognized three researchers from Catalan universities this year. This result positions Catalonia as one of the main references in mathematical research, as three of the five projects selected in the area of Mathematics, Statistics, and Data Science are led by the Pompeu Fabra University, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and the University of Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">These grants aim to promote highly innovative research projects led by researchers at an intermediate stage of their scientific career. In the 2026 call, <strong>59 Leonardo Grants<\/strong> have been awarded, distributed across eleven areas of knowledge. Catalonia has been the autonomous community with the highest number of selected projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">In the field of mathematics, the researchers linked to Catalan universities who have been awarded are:<\/p>\n<ul data-spread=\"false\">\n<li><strong>Lorenzo Cappello<\/strong>, scientific researcher at the <strong>Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)<\/strong>, for the project <em>Black-Box Predictive Inference<\/em> (subarea of Statistics).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elba Garc\u00eda Failde<\/strong>, scientific researcher at the <strong>Polytechnic University of Catalonia \u2013 BarcelonaTech (UPC)<\/strong>, for the project <em>Refined Enumerative Geometry Beyond ORieNtability (REBORN)<\/em> (subarea of Mathematics).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alejandro Poveda Ruzafa<\/strong>, assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the <strong>University of Barcelona (UB)<\/strong>, for the project <em>A Prikry-type Approach to Woodin\u2019s HOD Conjecture<\/em> (subarea of Mathematics).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">That <strong>three of the five awarded projects in mathematics<\/strong> are led from <strong>Catalonia<\/strong> evidences the strength of the Catalan university system and the international projection of its research groups. The selected projects cover diverse fields such as statistics, algebraic geometry, and mathematical logic, fundamental disciplines for the progress of knowledge with a growing impact on science and technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">From the <strong>Catalan Society of Mathematics (SCM)<\/strong> we congratulate <strong>Lorenzo Cappello, Elba Garc\u00eda Failde, and Alejandro Poveda Ruzafa<\/strong> for this important recognition. This success helps to give visibility to the mathematics being done in Catalonia and reinforces the role of Catalan universities as centers of excellence in research.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Catalan Society of Mathematics<\/strong> celebrates that this international recognition helps to highlight the country's mathematical talent and trusts that results like this will contribute to increasing institutional support for research, essential for facing the great scientific, technological, and social challenges of the future.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Beques Leonardo 2026 Matem\u00e0tiques han reconegut enguany tres investigadors de les universitats catalanes. Aquest resultat situa Catalunya com un dels principals referents de la recerca matem\u00e0tica, ja que tres dels cinc projectes seleccionats en l&#8217;\u00e0rea de Matem\u00e0tiques, Estad\u00edstica i Ci\u00e8ncia de Dades estan liderats des de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra, la Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":20735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-20734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticies","tag-destacat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20734","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20737,"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20734\/revisions\/20737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scm.iec.cat\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}