The Catalan Government approved today the awarding of the Narc\u00eds Monturiol Medal for scientific and technological merit to Gustavo Slafer, among other nine researchers of the Catalan knowledge system, as well as the Narc\u00eds Monturiol Plaque for the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gustavo Slafer leads the Crop Physiology<\/a> research group in Agrotecnio and was the director of the centre from 2016 to 2018 together with Vicent Sanchis. Slafer is also an ICREA research professor at the University of Lleida and honorary professor at the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). His research focuses on the physiological bases of collard yields to increase production with an efficient use of resources, improving sustainability and reducing environmental impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Together with Slafer, they will also receive the Narc\u00eds Monturiol Medal 2024: Jordi Alberch Vi\u00e9 (Universitat de Barcelona – UB), Anna Alberni Jord\u00e0 (UB), Anna Alberni Jord\u00e0 (CSIC), \u00c0ngel Lozano Solsona (Universitat Pompeu Fabra – UPF), Emilio Palomares Gil (ICIQ), Ana Isabel P\u00e9rez Neira (Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya – UPC), Petia Radeva (UB), Marta Reynal Querol (UPF), and Antonio Villaverde Corrales (Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona-UAB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n These awards, instituted by the Generalitat in 1982, honour individuals and organisations for their outstanding contribution to the development of science and technology in Catalonia and are named after the 19th-century Catalan inventor and politician Narc\u00eds Monturiol Estarriol. Since 1982, the Catalan Government has awarded 311 medals (238 to men and 73 to women) and 48 plaques for institutions. Among the laureates there are other Agrotecnio researchers: Paul Christou (2020<\/a>), Olga Mart\u00edn (2018<\/a>), Ramon Albajes (2002) and\u00a0Ignacio Romagosa (1998).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Text: Generalitat de Catalunya \/ UdL Press Office \/ Agrotecnio<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Catalan Government approved today the awarding of the Narc\u00eds Monturiol Medal for scientific and technological merit to Gustavo Slafer, among other nine researchers of the Catalan knowledge system, as well as the Narc\u00eds Monturiol Plaque for the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia. Gustavo Slafer leads the Crop Physiology research group in Agrotecnio and was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4771,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/4771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}