Profesorado
Dr. Juan José Egozcue (juan.jose.egozcue@upc.edu)
Dr.
Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn is a professor of the Department
of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the
University of Girona. She studied Mathematics at the
University of Barcelona in Spain and obtained her
PhD (doctor rerum
naturam) from
the Free University of Berlin in Germany. Before going
to Girona, she was professor at the School of Civil
Engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia
(UPC) in Barcelona. Her main research topic since 1982
has been the statistical analysis of compositional
data. The results obtained over the years have been
published in multiple articles, proceedings and a book
in the Oxford University Press series
Studies in
Mathematical Geology. She has been guest editor for a
special issue on this topic for Mathematical Geology in
2005 and has acted, together with A. Buccianti and G.
Mateu-Figueras, as editor of a book on compositional
data analysis published by the Geological Society,
London, as special publication 264. She is the leader
of a research group on this topic involving professors
from different Spanish universities located in Girona,
Barcelona, Murcia and Cáceres. The group organises
every two years a workshop on compositional data
analysis, known as CoDaWork, and their research has
received regularly financial support from the Spanish
Ministry for Education and Science and from the
University Department of the Catalan Government. Prof.
Dr. Pawlowsky-Glahn has been vice-chancellor at UPC
from 1990 to 1994, head of the Department of Computer
Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of
Girona in 2004-05, and dean of the Graduate School of
the University of Girona in 2005-06. She received in
2006 the William Christian Krumbein Medal of IAMG and
has been nominated Distinguished Lecturer for 2007 by
the same association.
Dr.
Juan José Egozcue is full professor at the Dept. of
Aplied Mathematics III at the Universidad Politécnica
de Cataluña (UPC) (Spain). He studied Physics, oriented
to Geophysics and Meteorology, at the University of
Barcelona (Spain) and obtained his PhD in the same
university with a dissertation on maximum entropy
spectral analysis (1982). In 1978 he got a position as
a lecturer in the school of civil engineering in
Barcelona (Escuela de Ingeniería de Caminos, Canales y
Puertos de la UPC), teaching several topics on applied
mathematics. In 1983, he started teaching Probability
and Statistics. He became Associate Professor in 1985,
and Full Professor in 1989, in the UPC, where he has
been Chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics III
and vice-rector of the UPC.
His research activities are presently centered in two
lines: Estimation of natural hazards using Bayesian
methods, specially applied to seismic, rainfall and
ocean wave hazards; and Statistical analysis of
compositional data, with special emphasis in the
geometry of the sample space, the simplex.
He has been leader of several research projects.
Nowadays, his main project is on vulnerability of dikes
under action of severe ocean waves (granted by the Port
Authority of Spain) and participates actively in a
project of compositional data analysis supported by the
Spanish ministry for education and science.
Dr.
Rene Meziat is
full professor at the Dept. of Mathematics at the
Universidad de los Andes (Bogota - Colombia). Ph.D. in
Applied Mathematics, Universidad Politécnica de
Cataluña, Barcelona, 2001. Concentrations: Calculus of
Variations, Optimization, Control, Signal Processing,
Numerical Analysis and Statistics. Dissertation: The
Method of Moments for Non-Convex Variational Problems
in Elasticity. Advisors: Dr. Juan J. Egozcue and Dr.
Pablo Pedregal