On January 23rd 2023, the first meeting of the Direction Board of the María de Maeztu Strategic Research Program at the DTIC took place.

The Direction Board is composed by the Scientific Director of the Program and the Guarantors. This board is responsible for overseeing the scientific progress.

Get to know the members of the Board:

Scientific Director of the Program: Àngel Lozano. Full Professor. Director of the Wireless & Secure Communications Group.

Guarantors (alphabetical order):

- Ricardo Baeza Yates. Full Professor at UPF, Director of Research at the Institute
for AI of Northeastern Univ.

- Carlos Castillo. ICREA Research Professor.  Director of the Web Science and Social Computing Group.

- Antoni Ivorra. Full Professor. Director of BERG (Biomedical Electronics) Group.

- Gemma Piella. Full Professor. Co-Director of the SIMBIOsys (Simulation, Imaging and Modelling for Biomedical Systems) Group

- Núria Sebastián. Full Professor. Director of the SAP (Speech Acquisition and Perception) Group.

- Xavier Serra. Full Professor. Director of the Music Technology Group.