Researcher Adriano Camps, awarded the Duran Farell Prize for Technological Research 2022

2022-12-19 16:00:00

Professor Adriano Camps, director of the NanoSat Lab of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC) and member of the IEEC, won the 13th Duran Farell Prize for Technological Research, awarded by the UPC Social Council, with the support of Naturgy Energy Group.

Dr Camps, who is also a teacher at the UPC Barcelona School of Telecommunications Engineering (ETSETB), has been distinguished as responsible for the project 'FSSCat: the 1st CubeSat-based ESA Third Party Mission contributing to the Copernicus program to Monitor Essential Climate Variables of the Water Cycle'. The project has created the first maps of soil moisture, of concentration, extent, and thickness of polar ice, as well as salinity in the Arctic, generated by data provided by two nanosatellites from he CubeCat family.

UPF researcher Marta Guardiola, founder of technology-based company MiWEndo Solutions, has won the category of research projects led by a woman as principal investigator, and researcher Zaida Álvarez, of the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), has received a special mention.

More information:
https://www.upc.edu/ca/sala-de-premsa/noticies/adriano-camps-i-marta-guardiola-guanyen-el-premi-duran-farell-investigacio-tecnologica