Seminario: "Funds for your job: where to look for? How to request?"

Ponente: F. Javier Zarazaga-Soria
Día: Jueves, 22 de marzo de 2018
Hora: 12:00-13:00h
Lugar: Seminario del Dept. Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas, Edif. Ada Byron
 

Título: Funds for your job: where to look for? How to request?

F. Javier Zarazaga-Soria, Dept. Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas, Universidad de Zaragoza

 

 

An important challenge every researcher finds sooner o later is how to fund his research work. There is a variety of local, national or international calls for funding research projects. This presentation will provide an overview of the different opportunities to get funding for research projects. The application procedures and the different requirements of the calls will be also analysed.

 

 

Javier Zarazaga holds MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Valencia and PhD degree from the University of Zaragoza. He did his master’s thesis at Road Safety Engineering Laboratory (University of London). Since 1994 he belongs to the Advanced Information Systems Group (IAAA), he began to work as Assistant Professor at the University of Zaragoza in 1996 and he got a position as Associated Professor in 2003. Since January 2015 he is the director of the IAAA Group. He has collaborated in more than 40 R+D projects, among which are remarkable 4 projects funded by the European Commission, being the coordinator in one of them, and more than 20 projects funded by national competitive calls, being the main researcher in 7 of them. In addition, he has also collaborated on more than 20 research contracts with national and international organizations and a number of technology transfer projects. In this line highlights its involvement in the setup of GeoSpatiumLab, a spin-off company, in 2007. As a result of his research activity, Javier Zarazaga is coauthor of more than 50 papers published in international journals and book chapters, as well as 90 publications in national and international conference proceedings.