More research awards signal the beginning of 2023 at UCM

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A total of six regular Fondecyt and seven initiatives allow the Universidad Católica del Maule to continue advancing towards complexity, initiatives that have been added to the international linkage funds recently awarded by the campus.

The Fondecyt projects aim to stimulate and promote the development of basic scientific and technological research, as indicated on the Ministry’s website by the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation, the entity providing these funds, which is considered the foundation of this kind in the country through the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID).

As they relate to the calls, hundreds of projects arrive from all universities and research centers in the country, which are evaluated by ANID with grades, to be subsequently awarded.

It was in these recent calls, published in January this year, that the UCM made happy accounts by awarding it six regular and seven start-up Fondecyts, which represent the work of academics in the institution, which contribute to science and technology on campus and the development of innovation and technology transfer in the region and country.

It was the Vice-Chancellor for Research and Postgraduate Studies at UCM, Dr. Hernán Moreira, who assessed these results, noting that “we are very pleased that they were in different fields and it will allow us to benefit from research projects with Ph.D.s and academics in the convents, strengthening them.”

Then the authority explained that “for the university, the Fondecyt competitions are relevant, both regular and junior, and they are also added to the international linkage funds, so we have three big areas in which we have received excellent news that allow us to make progress in being a more complex university,” he emphasized .

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These thirteen Fondecyt Awards have also been commended by the Directorate of University Planning and Development, through its Director, Dr. Victor San Martín. “For the university, these awards mean maintaining the upward level reached in 2022, and allow a positive projection of the gradual increase in research productivity… It is a positive result, if we compare our history in this matter and helps us a lot to prove quality,” he began by expressing.

On future challenges, the Director of the DPDU said, “I believe that, as a university, we should focus on creating favorable conditions so that academic teams can design award-worthy projects,” he said.

Projects awarded

Regular box:

Dr. Aparna Banerjee: “Bioactive bacterial polysaccharides from hot springs in Chile as potential food additives”.

– Dr. Claudio Garrido: “Historical Syntactic Transformations in the Differential Lexicon of Chilean Spanish”.

– Dr. Fernando Cordova: Overcoming current limitations of understanding, tracking, and prediction of infectious disease epidemics, and discussing and exploring a new strategic epidemiological mathematical model.

– Dr. Jose Neva: Automating bee recognition of buzz-pollinated crops using computational bioacoustics.

Dr. Maria Aravena: “Mathematical Modeling and Case Method for the Integration of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. A Diversity Attendance Proposal in a Secondary Classroom.”

Dr. Rodrigo Andler: Biodegradation analysis of various vulcanized rubber mixtures and major tire additives.

start box:

• Patricia Silva: “Understanding the variation in associations of paired root plants and their fungal state along large-scale latitude and elevation gradients”.

• Paul Medina: “How did extinct Chilean animals move? Validating lines of evidence for the construction of morphofunctional spaces applied to terrestrial tetrapods”.

• Carolina Henriquez: Teaching geometry in secondary education: A study and contributions to the transfer of classroom teaching practice to the initial formation of teachers of mathematics.

• Eric Hernandez: “Design of rhodopsin-based phototransducers for optogenetic applications by multiscale modeling”.

• John Lopez: Single-fractal modeling of uncertainty estimates in the classification process of cardiovascular disease using short time series.

• Paula Rodriguez: A qualitative study of the social production of physical and social space in three popular neighborhoods in Talca (2000-2020).

• Alexis Castillo: “Assessment of geochemical indicators to infer current and past changes in hydrographic conditions in the coastal ecosystem of central Chile (~35°S)”.

Credit: DIRCOM UCM.