BSC is a recognised Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence. The Spanish Government bestows the Severo Ochoa award on national research entities considered to be the most internationally competitive in their respective fields, showing scientific leadership and whose results have had a significant impact. The recognition is accompanied by a grant of four million Euros to carry out a programme of measures aimed at further increasing the scientific and institutional strength of the awardees.
BSC first obtained the Severo Ochoa award in 2011 (SEV-2011-0067). It renewed the award in 2015 (SEV-2015-0493) for a programme developed in the period 2016-2020. The centre achieved the accreditation for a third time in 2022, to carry out a series of measures aimed at continuous improvement during the period 2023-2027.
The specific objectives of the Severo Ochoa programme are:
- Improve the capacity of high-level research centres to organize and carry out their research
- Improve their ability to attract, recruit, train and retain talent
- Create and/or consolidate their relationships with other excellent research centres
- Disseminate research results to the general public
A limited number of Severo Ochoa centres are designated each year after a rigorous selection process. At the end of their four-year accreditation period they may apply again for the award.
List of current Severo Ochoa Research Seminars
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Speakers: Speakers: Christopher Rauh. ATRAE Distinguished Researcher at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE, CSIC) and Luis Menéndez. Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Barcelona School of Economics (IDEA Graduate Program)
Host: Mercè Crosas, Computational Social Sciences and Humanities Laboratory Director, BSC.
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Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
Speakers: Speaker: Alba Lepore, Propject Leader, Department of Biomedicine of the University of Basel
Host: Alba Jené, Life Sciences Scientific Coordinator, BSC
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Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
Speakers:
Speaker: Hector Orengo Romeu, ICREA Research Professor at BSC, and researcher at the GEOLAB (UMR 6042) in France, the Universities of Nottingham, Sheffield and Cambridge in the UK, and the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology in Spain.
Host: Mercè Crosas. Computational Social Sciences and Humanities Laboratory Director
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Speakers: Speaker: Andrew King. Associate Professor in Climate Science at the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century
Host: Markus Donat. ICREA Research Professor. Climate Variability and Change Group Co-Leader. Barcelona Supercomputing Center
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Speakers: Speaker: Yuyao Niu. Currently on her third-year PhD at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
Host: Teresa Cervero. Leading Research Engineer. Computer Sciences - Technical Management HW Engineering, BSC
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Speakers: Speaker: Mariko Okada, Professor at the Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University (Japan)
Host: Josep Lluís Gelpí, INB Computational Node 2 group manager
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Speakers: Speaker: Mariana Gómez-Schiavon, Junior Faculty, LIIGH-UNAM; Adjunct Investigator, iBio-Chile
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Speakers: Speaker: Nazerke Turtayeva, PhD Student, UC Santa Barbara
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Speakers: Speaker: Caterina Calsamiglia.
ICREA Research Professor at BSC and leader of the Computational Social Sciences group in the CSSH Lab, where she also leads the Welfare and Equity Group.
Host: Mercè Crosas. Computational Social Sciences and Humanities Laboratory Director
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Speakers: Speaker: Dr. Yatish Turakhia. Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California San Diego (UCSD)
Host: Miquel Moreto and Santiago Marco Sola
