ICREA

ICREA gathers a community of top scientists and academics from all over the world who work in the Catalan research ecosystem.

The community pursues research on the frontiers of knowledge, across all academic disciplines, from philosophy to astrophysics.

Excellence

ICREA has been instrumental towards the academic recognition
achieved by Catalan research over the last 15 years.

ICREA RESEARCH PROFESSORS

There are 258 ICREA Research Professors hired by ICREA after a highly competitive selection process.
At the time of hiring, half of them were working abroad, mainly in USA, UK and Germany.

258

ICREA Research Professors

28

Nationalities represented

These are a few ICREA Research Professors who received awards in 2016:

ANTONIO ACÍN
AXA Chair

EDUARD BATLLE
Premio de Investigación Biomédica de la Fundación Lilly

MANEL ESTELLER
Medalla d’Honor del Parlament de Catalunya
Premi Nacional de Recerca
Premi Internacional Catalunya

FRANK KOPPENS
Premi Nacional de Recerca al Talent Jove

BEN LEHNER
EMBO Gold Medal

NÚRIA LÓPEZ-BIGAS
Premi Banc Sabadell a la Investigació Biomèdica

ALBERT MARCET
Premio Rey Jaime I de Economía

Talent

ICREA Research Professors received in 2016 major awards and honours for their contribution
to the advancement of humankind through outstanding research.

ICREA ACADEMIA

Since 2008, ICREA also supports the most promising professors in Catalan public universities to intensify their research activities.

ICREA Academia grantees are in a fully active and expansive phase of their research career.

They represent 1.5% of all academics in Catalonia. At the end of 2016, there are 113 active ICREA Academia grants.

209

ICREA Academia grants to date

113

Active grants

5

year grant

1

of all academics in Catalonia

7

Public universities in Catalonia

Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

Universitat de Lleida (UdL)

Universitat de Girona (UdG)

Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)

Collaboration

Science has no frontiers.
Catalan universities collaborate with a rich network of universities worldwide.

THE PLACE TO BE

In 2016, 49 host institutions, both universities and research centres, are hosting ICREA Research Professors in Catalonia.

They are outstanding places to do research, bringing the most talented global scientists year after year.

49

Host institutions

9

Universities

40

Research centres

11

Hold Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence Awards

6

Hold Maria de Maeztu Units of Excellence Awards

Prestige

A network of reputed universities and research centres at the forefront
of science attracting top academics from all over the world.

SCIENCE THAT COUNTS

ICREA Research Professors are an employment powerhouse.  In 2016, each of them brought to Catalonia 288,000 euros of
external funding, roughly four times their cost. Moreover, each of them kept an average of 6.5 full-time jobs directly supported by research grants,
all of them highly qualified. ICREA Research Professors participate in 20 spin-off companies, of which 2 were created in 2016. These companies have raised
so far a total of 85 million euros from investors worldwide.

74

Funds

50

European Commission grants (mostly ERC)

25

Spanish national research funds

288

Funds attracted by each ICREA Research Professor

6

Average of full-time jobs maintained

1 in 3 ICREA Research Professors obtained an ERC grant

20

Spin-off companies since 2001

85

Raised capital since 2001

Contribution

Since its creation in 2001, ICREA Research Professors have attracted over 600 million euros
in research funds to Catalonia. The accumulated cost of ICREA is 210 million euros.

WORKING HARD

ICREA Research Professors are extremely active academics.

In 2016, they published 32 books, 133 book chapters and 1,709 papers of which 90% were in the first quartile.

In 2016, ICREA papers were cited 2.5 times more than the average paper in each discipline.

2030

Total publications

163

PhD theses

90

Publications in first quartile

Four ICREA Research Professors among the world’s most cited researchers in 2016, according to Thomson Reuters.

JOSEP DALMAU
IDIBAPS

MACIEJ LEWENSTEIN
ICFO

JOSEP M. LLOVET
IDIBAPS

SERGEI ODINTSOV
CSIC-ICE

Quality

ICREA Research Professors produce a large amount of high profile publications of all kinds
and are an extremely influencial scientific community.

LESS IS MORE

ICREA has the tiniest executive team in the known universe: whilst the community keeps growing, only six people run ICREA on a daily basis.

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Researchers salaries

1

Evaluation, selection and running costs

1

Admin. salaries

100