Director of the PhD School
- Directora: Coloma Ballester Nicolau
Postal address
Doctoral School
Jaume I Building (Ciutadella Campus)
Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
08005 Barcelona
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Mercè building
Carrer de la Mercè 12
08002 Barcelona
(34) 93 542 20 00
(34) 93 542 20 02
Contact
Telephone: 93 542 11 72 (Doctoral School)
Fax : 93 542 17 91 (Doctoral School)
E-mail : [email protected]
Curricula
Coloma Ballester Nicolau is a full professor at Pompeu Fabra University. She joined its Department of Engineering in 1999, where she is the coordinator of the Intelligent Multimodal Vision Analysis research group. From 2013 to 2015 she was scientific director of the Image Group in the Barcelona Media technological research center (now Eurecat). Prior to that, she was Chercheur Associé at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris (1998) and assistant professor at the Universitat Illes Balears until 1998, with several doctoral and postdoctoral study periods in UCLA and in Europe. In 1995 she received a PhD in Computer Science from the Universitat Illes Balears and Université Paris-IX Dauphine. Prior to that she received a MSc degree in Mathématiques Appliquées à l'Ingénierie in 1992 from Université Paris-IX Dauphine. She also holds a degree in Mathematics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Her research has been devoted since the beginning to the development of models and algorithms for image analysis and computer vision and to their mathematical analysis. She currently works on theory and applications for the automatic analysis and understanding of visual content, sometimes involving multiple modalities including vision, natural language and audio. She is currently interested in both model- and learning-based strategies. She leads, coordinates and participates in several European and national projects and international research networks.
She has held several management positions at the university since 1999, including Director of the School of Engineering Computer Science, deputy director and coordinator of the engineering degrees in computer science and of audiovisual systems, head of studies of engineering, coordinator of international relations, all of them of the ESUP, deputy director and secretary of the Department of Engineering, coordinator at the UPF of the inter-university master degree in computer vision. Also, member of many Program Committees, Scientific and Technical Committees. Currently, she is associate editor of SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences.
She was appointed by the rector on 18 October 2024 with effect on 21 October 2024.