Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTECH

Carles Serrat

Team Leader

Associate Professor at the Dept. of Mathematics at UPC-BarcelonaTECH, at the Barcelona School of Building Construction (Catalonia, Spain). PhD in Mathematics, and 30+ years experience at UPC and 25+ at Open University of Catalonia (UOC, online). Research areas: survival analysis techniques and longitudinal data analysis. Member of the GRBIO (UPC) and ICSO (UOC) research groups. Member of the aCTeX (Scientific and Technical Network Self-Learning) innovation project. Granted research stays: Harvard University, Hasselt University, UOC, Trinity College Dublin, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and Universidad de La Sabana.

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M. Rosa Estela

PhD in Applied Mathematics, since 1992 professor at the UPC’s Barcelona School of Civil Engineering. She has been Assistant Director of the School since 2007 to 2020 with different positions including Innovation and Teaching Quality. She is author and co-author of several books and she has coordinated several teaching innovation projects using new technologies. One of them the award project “The Language of Engineering” on the UPC’s MOOC platform.

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M. Montserrat Bruguera

PhD in Mathematics, specializing in topological and convergence groups. Professor at the UPC since 1988, actively participating in the elaboration of material for the new educational platforms, in the Tutorial Plan and in the Promotion Plan of the UPC. Member of the aCTeX (Scientific and Technical Network Self-Learning) innovation project. Recently certified as a coach, specialist in educational coaching.

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Xavier Marcote

PhD in Mathematics, associate professor at UPC since 1988, teaching in the Civil Engineering School. His primary areas of research and publications are Combinatorics and Graph Theory (Networks), where he has co-authored more than 50 publications. Since the beginning in teaching of Mathematics, he has been interested in the improvement of learning processes; in this regard, together with other three professors at UPC he developed in 2001 the project ”Algweb: interactive tools for self-learning of Algebra”, which was awarded by UPC with the “4th award to the quality in teaching at university”.

Jordi Guàrdia

Guàrdia (PhD in Mathematics), associate professor at UPC. Along his career has been in charge of more than 30 different courses. He has incorporated the use of several software packages (Mathematica, Maple, Sage, Geogebra, Python) in these courses, not only as a tool for computing, but mainly as a gate to experiencing and discovering mathematics. He is also an active researcher in the field of Number Theory, with about 25 publications in high impact journals.