Enrique Alba: European Research Council (ERC): Founding Best Research Around the World
Speaker
Enrique Alba, European Research Council
Host
Dr. Una-May O'Reilly
Abstract: Our world is full of amazing researchers with ideas that can change our lives for the best. At ERC, we are proud to support them, and fund research projects that lie in all fields of science. Whatever their domain of work and nationality, researchers can present their proposals in a bottom-up manner, in three seniority programmes (starting, consolidator, and advanced) that welcome computer science, physics, mathematics, economics, law, education, linguistics, medicine, biology, earth, space, and much much more. Spinning around three pillar domains, ERC offers a way of supporting very competitive principal investigators with original proposals that are high-risk/high-gain, with amounts that range up to 1.5/2.0/2.5 Million Euros for 5 years (other values above and below are possible for funding amounts and for years). This seminar will introduce ERC and the available funding system, in order to foster future proposal submissions, hopefully contributing to our modern societies and their wellbeing.
Speaker Bio: Prof. Enrique Alba works as a Full Professor at the University of Málaga (Spain), having a long teaching experience in distributed/parallel programming, software quality, evolutionary computing, bases for R+D+i and smart cities, both at graduate and master/doctoral levels. Prof. Alba leads an international team of researchers in the field of complex optimization/learning with applications in industry, smart cities, bioinformatics, software engineering, telecoms, and others. In addition to the organization of numerous ACM/IEEE international events, Prof. Alba has offered dozens of postgraduate courses, delivered more than 80 seminars in international institutions, and directed many research projects (9 with national funds, 7 in Europe, and numerous bilateral actions). Also, Prof. Alba has directed 12 projects for innovation in companies and has worked as invited professor at France, Luxembourg, Ostrava, Scotland, Japan, Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay, and Mexico. He has served as editor in several international journals and book series of Springer-Verlag and Wiley, as well has reviewed articles for more than 30 impact journals. He is included in the list of most prolific DBLP authors, and has published 130 articles in journals indexed by ISI, 11 books, and hundreds of communications in proceedings of peer-reviewed scientific conferences. He is included in the top five most relevant researchers in Informatics in Spain (according to ISI), and is the most influent researcher of UMA in engineering (webometrics), with 14 awards to his professional activities. Pr. Alba’s H index is 65, with more than 19,000 cites to his work. He is now working at ERCEA as a Seconded National Expert in computer science.
Speaker Bio: Prof. Enrique Alba works as a Full Professor at the University of Málaga (Spain), having a long teaching experience in distributed/parallel programming, software quality, evolutionary computing, bases for R+D+i and smart cities, both at graduate and master/doctoral levels. Prof. Alba leads an international team of researchers in the field of complex optimization/learning with applications in industry, smart cities, bioinformatics, software engineering, telecoms, and others. In addition to the organization of numerous ACM/IEEE international events, Prof. Alba has offered dozens of postgraduate courses, delivered more than 80 seminars in international institutions, and directed many research projects (9 with national funds, 7 in Europe, and numerous bilateral actions). Also, Prof. Alba has directed 12 projects for innovation in companies and has worked as invited professor at France, Luxembourg, Ostrava, Scotland, Japan, Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay, and Mexico. He has served as editor in several international journals and book series of Springer-Verlag and Wiley, as well has reviewed articles for more than 30 impact journals. He is included in the list of most prolific DBLP authors, and has published 130 articles in journals indexed by ISI, 11 books, and hundreds of communications in proceedings of peer-reviewed scientific conferences. He is included in the top five most relevant researchers in Informatics in Spain (according to ISI), and is the most influent researcher of UMA in engineering (webometrics), with 14 awards to his professional activities. Pr. Alba’s H index is 65, with more than 19,000 cites to his work. He is now working at ERCEA as a Seconded National Expert in computer science.