The UPC celebrates the first European Doctoral Day with the photography contest "Scientific Perspectives: Research in Images".

On May 13th, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) celebrated the first European Doctoral Day, a European initiative aimed at highlighting doctoral research and the role of PhD students in generating knowledge and innovation.

As previously announced, the Doctoral School joined this celebration by launching the first research photography contest "Scientific Perspectives: Research in Images", an initiative that has showcased the research developed at the UPC through original, creative, and highly impactful visual images.

As part of the event, the permanent exhibition of the five winning photographs was inaugurated yesterday at the Nexus II Building – Campus Nord, attended by three of the five winning authors. During the ceremony, the official certificates and prize checks were also presented.

The winning photographs of this first edition were:

• Carles Pàmies Sauret — Fotogrametría de la Catedral de Barcelona
• Alejandro Santos García — When the Milky Way aligns with science
• Diana Hernández Barrera — Camí a la descarbonització
• Èlia Mateu Barriendos — Objectiu: Intel·ligència a la Lluna
• Francesc Barberà Flichi — Nanoscale Deformation of Cemented Carbides

You can view the winning photographs at the following link: European Doctoral Day 2026 – Winning photographs.