Salvador Barberà and Joaquim Bruna awarded the Narcís Monturiol Medal

03/10/2012

On 17 July the Government of Catalonia awarded the Narcís Monturiol Medal and Plaque to thirteen people and three institutions. These awards were reinstated by the Government of Catalonia in 1982 as a means of acknowledging individuals and entities who have contributed greatly to the development of science and technology in Catalonia.

Among this year's winners are Salvador Barberà, professor of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis at the UAB Department of Economics and Economic History, and Joaquim Bruna, professor of Mathematical Analysis at the UAB Department of Mathematics.

Salvador Barberà Sández earned his PhD in Economics at Northwestern University, USA. He is professor of Economics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He is director of the research consortium Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics (MOVE). He is a renowned expert in the theory of social election, analysis of voting methods and the constitutional design, and he also contributed to the study of individual preferences and the strategic formation of coalitions.

Joaquim Bruna i Floris earned his degree in Mathematics at the University of Barcelona. He received his PhD in Mathematics by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and is professor of Mathematics at UAB. Director of the Research Centre in Mathematics (CRM), his research focuses on mathematical analysis, specifically on the theory of real and complex variable functions in one and several variables, on the harmonic analysis, the global variety analysis and the mathematics of signal processing.

Jordi Isern also received the award for his work as research lecturer at CSIC, director of the Institute of Space Sciences and of the Institute of Space Studies in Catalonia (IEEC), an aggregated  UAB-CIE centre. Among the awarded entities were the FERO Foundation, a cancer research centre created in 2001 by Dr Josep Baselga, professor of Medicine at UAB.