The ICTA-UAB is one of the institutions that will join the Spanish network of the Integrated Carbon Observation System, ICOS. The research infrastructure, which is funded by European countries, measures greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide across the European continent and the adjacent oceans.
An international project led by the ICTA-UAB, Engineers without Borders Catalonia (ESF), and the Catalonia Energy Research Institute (IREC) contributes to address energy supply problems in 1,500 households in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area.
Although it is a widely known scientific fact that infectious diseases emerge and re-emerge due to climate change, a study which included the involvement of the UAB published in PLoS ONE reveals that 48.9% of the population surveyed are not aware of this relation.
With funding from the Government of Catalonia and the European Union, under the framework of the call "Comunitats Emergents RIS3CAT", a new project was recently launched under the name of GraphCAT, an initiative to create an ecosystem of research centres related with the study of graphene. The UAB will be involved in two of the project's initiatives: Graph-SIM and NeuroGraph.
Joint research conducted by the UAB has shown the ability to switch magnetizacion « on » and « off » using voltage in a new class of easy-to-fabricate materials containing nitrogen. These results, published in Nature Communications, may be used to reduce energy consumption in electronic technologies.
Speaking two or more languages may be a probable protective factor against Alzheimer's and could contribute to delaying the onset of symptoms 4.5 years, according to a study published in the journal Revista de Neurología and conducted by a research team from the Hospital del Mar, the UAB and the Hospital Quirónsalud in Sabadell.
On 25 November the UAB organised an institutional event in commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Speeches were given by Rector Javier Lafuente, General Secretary Esther Zapater and Director for the Observatory for Equality Maria Prats in what was the new governing team's first official event.
Emeritus Professor María Josefa Yzuel was awarded the Julio Peláez Award to Pioneers in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. It was conferred onto her and also onto CSIC researcher Susana Marcos by the Tatiana Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno Foundation.
Esteve Corbera and Margarita Triguero, from the ICTA, and Jordi Martínez Vilalta, from the Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology, are amongst the researchers with the most number of articles cited in the world.
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Spain's new population census in 2021 will no longer be based on surveys, but rather on the administration's register and will be conducted with a novel methodology using Big Data. This is what Antonio Argüeso, Vice Director in Statistics at the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE), explained to us in his participation in a seminar organised by the CED-UAB.
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