The professor of Applied Mathematics Carles Simó received the 2012 National Research Award
The lecturer Carles Simó Torre, professor of Applied Mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics of the UB since 1978, received the 2012 National Research Award conferred by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation, supported by the Government of Catalonia. Simó received the award for “its work to strengthen the application of mathematical advances in fields with a high socio economic impact such as space missionsʼ design or celestial mechanics (the study of celestial objects' motions caused by the gravityʼs effects of other celestial objects)”. The award includes a 40,000 euro prize, and is given to a researcher who has significantly contributed to the progress of a science discipline on global scale in any scientific area.
Carles Simó is one of the leaders in mathematical research in Catalonia. Internationally, he has been recognized for its contributions to the following fields: dynamical systems, differential equations, celestial mechanics, astrodynamics and numerical analysis. His professional career has two main trends: on one hand, he has published more than 200 papers in international journals which have been quoted more than 800 times; on the other hand, his has worked as a professor and lecturer. He has led 25 of the 100 doctoral theses made within the Group of Research on Dynamical Systems.
In research, he has dealt with topics related to fundamental mathematics and applied mathematics. One of the key aspects of his work is the combination of analytical, geometrical, algebraic and numerical methods in order to study different mathematical models and their applications. He has been pioneer in the use of tools from the general theory of dynamical systems to analyze space missions, procedures that now the European Space Agency (ESA) and the NASA usually apply; Carles Simó has been consultant in these two organizations.
The lecturer Carles Simó Torre, professor of Applied Mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics of the UB since 1978, received the 2012 National Research Award conferred by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation, supported by the Government of Catalonia. Simó received the award for “its work to strengthen the application of mathematical advances in fields with a high socio economic impact such as space missionsʼ design or celestial mechanics (the study of celestial objects' motions caused by the gravityʼs effects of other celestial objects)”. The award includes a 40,000 euro prize, and is given to a researcher who has significantly contributed to the progress of a science discipline on global scale in any scientific area.
Carles Simó is one of the leaders in mathematical research in Catalonia. Internationally, he has been recognized for its contributions to the following fields: dynamical systems, differential equations, celestial mechanics, astrodynamics and numerical analysis. His professional career has two main trends: on one hand, he has published more than 200 papers in international journals which have been quoted more than 800 times; on the other hand, his has worked as a professor and lecturer. He has led 25 of the 100 doctoral theses made within the Group of Research on Dynamical Systems.
In research, he has dealt with topics related to fundamental mathematics and applied mathematics. One of the key aspects of his work is the combination of analytical, geometrical, algebraic and numerical methods in order to study different mathematical models and their applications. He has been pioneer in the use of tools from the general theory of dynamical systems to analyze space missions, procedures that now the European Space Agency (ESA) and the NASA usually apply; Carles Simó has been consultant in these two organizations.