He is the first researcher in Spain to receive this European recognition in its more than thirty years of history. Fundamental factors in the award were his long professional career and his research on the effects of environmental and food pollutants on human health.
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Muzahir Hussain, international fellow at the Faculty of Chemistry, awarded a grant by the Martí i Franquès COFUND Doctoral Programme
24/03/2023
The first URV Festival: a great success
Figa Flawas, JazzWoman and DJ Ceba top the bill at the Festival attended by hundreds of people
For the fifth consecutive year, the Universitat Rovira and Virgili appears in the QS World University Rankings by Subject with four areas: Archaeology, Chemical Engineering, Medicine, and Chemistry.
A hydroalcoholic gel with a QR code enables people to access to a test that assesses their ability to identify the smell of the product and eight symptoms of the disease. Using artificial intelligence techniques, it instantly evaluates the risk of having Covid. The first prototype of this system is being used in the Emergency Department of Hospital Sant Joan de Reus
Immaculada Rosell was one of the members of the URV participating in the International Student Conference 2023 held at Indonesia
The European Commission recognises the institution’s commitment to following the recommendations of the European Charter for Researchers
A study carried out by the URV’s SeesLab research group has shown for the first time that machine learning algorithms do not always succeed in finding interpretable models from data
The World Health Organization credits green spaces with benefits for humans such as reducing stress and cardiovascular diseases, while mitigating the heat island effect
Video Games for Skills Training (VERSA) shows that students have better interdisciplinary skills and are more prepared for the world of work if they play commercial video games
The CRAI supports researchers in the curation and deposit of data derived from research projects
The SMARTDEST project, led by the URV, has studied the conditions of the workforce in the tourism sector in Barcelona to determine the social consequences of intensive tourism in cities
The exhibition is part of the activities of the 1st Cycle of Contemporary History and the Current World “Thinking historically about current affairs”, organized by the ISOCAC research group of the URV
The purpose of the visit was to align the work of these centers with the projects of the European Union together with the rest of the Spanish CDE
A research group of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, led by Professor Domènec Puig, classifies types of breast cancer and predicts the likelihood of metastasis
20/02/2023
The URV Festival will be held on 23 March
Among the planned activities there is an electronic aperitif, an area for games and university associations, a big, open-air lunch and the performances of Figa Flawas, JazzWoman, DJ Trapella, and DJ Ceba
The event is part of the Welcome Days, the URV’s welcome to international students arriving for the second semester
Nearly 450 students are studying at the University as part of a mobility programme, more than before the pandemic for the first time
Charalampos Papadakis, international student at the Faculty of Business and Economics, awarded a grant by Martí i Franquès COFUND Doctoral Programme
A research team from the URV has developed a system that identifies feelings in evaluative language. The results of their research have been published in the scientific journal Mathematics