Research Awards “For Women in Science”

L’Oréal-UNESCO’s “For Women in Science” opened the call this week for the Research Awards For Women in Science 2017/2018.

In this call, five prizes (of 15,000 euros each) are offered to the Research Centres that apply to them for support for projects developed within them by Spanish women scientists during the year 2018 in the area of Physics.

Applications that meet the requirements of the Call Rules must be presented by the Research Centres with all the required documentation, both regarding the Centre, the research project, and the female scientist carrying it out.

The period for submitting applications ends on May 21, 2017 (inclusive) through the web (by directly accessing the tab For Women in Science Program in Spain. Registration must be done through this link.

All the information about this call – requirements, documentation required from the Centre regarding the project and the researcher, etc. – is included in the Rules of the Call and can be consulted on the website of L’Oréal España.

For any additional questions, interested parties can contact this email: corpes.loreal.unesco@loreal.com

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Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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