The J. García-Siñeriz Foundation Awards the World Prize for a Doctoral Thesis in Geophysics to Former UPC Doctoral Student Luis Alejandro Pinzón Ureña

The J. García-Siñeriz Foundation, a charitable and educational organisation that promotes studies and research in Geophysics, has published the results of the 26th Call (2019-2021) for the World Prize for a Doctoral Thesis in Geophysics.

The awardee is Luis Alejandro Pinzón Ureña, a former doctoral student at UPC and now an internationally renowned academic, for his thesis Directionality and soils' effects on the seismic hazard and risk. Applications to ground motion big data sets and to urban environments.