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David Bartrés-Faz, awarded in the ICREA Academia 2024 programme
Monday 20 January 2025
The BBHI Principal Investigator and professor of the Department of Medicine and member of the Institute of Neurosciences (UBneuro) of the University of Barcelona, David Bartrés-Faz, has been awarded in the 2024 call of the ICREA Academia programme. These grants, awarded by the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), aim to promote research talent in Catalan universities.
The ICREA Academia programme is aimed exclusively at university lecturers who are teaching and who are in a fully active and expanding phase of research activity. In this edition, fifty professors from several fields of knowledge have been recognised, each of whom will receive 40,000 euros per year for a period of five years.
The selection of candidates is based on peer review, where the only criteria are scientific excellence and leadership. The basic concept of evaluation is that it relies essentially on the judgement of high-level experts guided by the principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which recommends that evaluators should not be guided only by quantitative measures (e.g. Journal Impact Factors). In evaluating research, ICREA takes into account the value of all research outputs, including qualitative indicators of research impact, such as influence on science policy and standard practice.
The ICREA Academia programme is aimed exclusively at university lecturers who are teaching and who are in a fully active and expanding phase of research activity. In this edition, fifty professors from several fields of knowledge have been recognised, each of whom will receive 40,000 euros per year for a period of five years.
The selection of candidates is based on peer review, where the only criteria are scientific excellence and leadership. The basic concept of evaluation is that it relies essentially on the judgement of high-level experts guided by the principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which recommends that evaluators should not be guided only by quantitative measures (e.g. Journal Impact Factors). In evaluating research, ICREA takes into account the value of all research outputs, including qualitative indicators of research impact, such as influence on science policy and standard practice.