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.
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.
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
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.
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)
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.
Universities
Research centres
Hold Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence Awards
Hold Maria de Maeztu Units of Excellence Awards
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.
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.
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
ICREA has the tiniest executive team in the known universe: whilst the community keeps growing, only six people run ICREA on a daily basis.
