Fondecyt Regular: UAI obtains 1st place among non-traditional private universities

There are 30 projects research that UAI academics were awarded in the 2023 version of the Regular Fondecyt contestof the National Research and Development Agency (ANID). This achievement is equivalent to the largest number of UAI awards in history -the closest were 18 projects awarded in 2020-, a milestone that also positions it as the first non-traditional private university in the 2023 version.

The goal of Regular Fondecyt contest It is based on “promoting scientific-technological-based research in all areas of knowledge, through the financing of individual projects of excellence, oriented to the production of knowledge”. Of the 30 projects, 11 correspond to the College of Liberal Arts11 a.m. Faculty of Engineering and Sciences5 o’clock Business School1 at school of psychology1 at law School and 1 at Design school.

To this achievement are also added the results of the Fondecyt contests of Initiation and of Postdoc, in which UAI researchers were respectively awarded 14 and 8 projects. In total, also considering the Regularthere are 52 investigations that will be developed during the next years.

“We are proud of this result, which will allow us to continue deepening the creation and development of knowledge from various disciplines. This achievement demonstrates the first-rate quality of UAI researchers, and the valuable contribution they make from their fields of knowledge to excellent research projects that have a positive impact on society. We congratulate all of them and wish them every success in the development of their work”, points Soledad ArellanoUAI academic vice-rector.

The projects

College of Liberal Arts

1. Fernando Guzman. Project “Between adornment and decorum in the churches of Buenos Aires, Lima and Santiago, 18th and 19th centuries”.
2. Hernan Gonzalez. Project “Infrared Physics from Flat Spacetime Holography”.
3. Cesar Gonzalez. Project “Fear in the Anthropocene: Causes and Consequences of Risk-Taking Behavior in Birds”.
4. Javier Echeñique. Project “The problem of justice and the birth of Ethics in classical Greece”.
5. Nicole Darat. Project “You miss them. Towards a feminist concept of political obligation.
6. Jose Antonio Valdivia. Project “Reason, affections and testimony in the ethics of the belief of Pedro Olivi (s. XIII)”.
7. Miriam Jerade. Project “Hermeneutic injustice, vulnerability and social ontology”.
8. Gonzalo Bustamente. Project “Re-understanding the Radical Enlightenment: Hobbes and the Theophrastus Redivivus”.
9. Martina Bortignon. Project “Crazy mothers. A comparative study of 20th century authors on ambivalence and creation in the maternity-psychiatry knot.
10. Antonia Viu. Project “Expanded Materialities: Illustrated Literary Sections in Latin American Magazines and Press Supplements of the First Half of the 20th Century”.
11. Maria Paz Oliver. Project “Scenes of domestic life: mobility and daily life in recent Latin American literature.”

law School

1. Carlos Correa. Project “Mechanisms for selecting cases in criminal proceedings: between regulation and the discretion of the Public Ministry”.

Design school

1. Felix Raspall. Project “Applications of Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing for the construction industry in Chile”.

Faculty of Engineering and Sciences

1. Roberto Troncoso. Project “Topological Magnon Insulatronics”.
2. Pedro Montealegre. Project “Computing Power of Hybrid Models in Synchronous Networks”.
3. Felipe Asenjo. Project “Structured, localized and non-diffracting wavepackets in relativistic plasmas”.
4. Javiera Barrera. Project “Reliable Network design under correlated failures”.
5. Peter Reszka. Project “Improving the understanding of wildland fuel transport processes: studying flammability on surrogate fuel beds”.
6. Rodrigo Carrasco. Project “Resource cost-aware scheduling problems under uncertainty”.
7. Pablo Benitez. Project “Dynamics in multiphase protoplanetary disks”.
8. Gonzalo Ruz. Project “Learning threshold networks for social and biological applications”.
9. Carlos Jerez. Project “Advanced Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Electromagnetics”.
10. Bernardo Gonzalez. Project “Good things come in small doses: Natural low abundance within the rhizosphere microbiome as a critical trait to successful Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria”.
11. Juan Francisco Vivanco. Project “An integrated biomechanical design and manufacturing process of 3D scaffolds with structural gradient evaluated with a Stem Cell culture model for bone tissue engineering applications”.

Business School

1. Marcos Goycolea. Project “An Integer Programming Approach to Production Scheduling, with Applications in Mining, Astronomy and Other Problems”.
2. Florence Borrescio. Project “Early-Life Nutrition and Academic Achievement: the impact of powdered milk on education in Chile”.
3. Wenceslao Unanue. Project “The Longitudinal Link between Gratitude at Work and Employee’s Well-being, Attitudes and Behaviors: Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration as Underlying Psychological Processes. Evidence from Two Representative Samples in Chile”.
4. Joris van de Klundert. Project “Improving Effectiveness and Equity in Kidney Exchange Programs”.
5. Rodrigo Wagner. Project “How do housing prices react to the exchange rate when real estate is invoiced in dollars? Microevidence from a novel dataset”.

school of psychology

1. David Huepe. Project “The role of social determinants of health in the modulation of socio-emotional skills in socially vulnerable contexts: an approach from Social Neuroscience using Mobile EEG”.