University of Talca awarded 25 projects Fondecyt Regular

Researchers from the University of Talca were awarded 25 projects from the Regular Fondecyt instrument of the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID), a figure that represents an approval rate of 51.02% with respect to the total proposals submitted, a percentage that above the national average, which is between 27 and 32%.

With this result, UTalca reaffirmed its scientific leadership in the Maule region and positioned itself as one of the 10 study houses with the highest number of awards.

The Academic Vice Chancellor of UTalca, Cristian Rojas, positively assessed this result considering that it is consistent with the approval rate of the Fondecyt for Initiation (50.0%).

“This result identifies us as a complex institution that has high-standard research as one of its pillars, which is not only consolidated in instruments such as the Nucleus Ring, but also through competitive projects that seek to respond to different problems that the different disciplines or areas of knowledge”, he expressed.

For his part, the Director of Research, Roberto Jara, added that “this number of projects achieved and approval rate fills us with pride and reflects the effort of our academics and the guidance and support work that our Directorate has carried out for some years”.

In addition, he stressed that “in terms of discipline there are important aspects. Although our award is concentrated in the natural and exact sciences, we highlight the approval of projects in the social sciences, through legal sciences and psychology, and the consistency demonstrated by the Interdisciplinary Research Institute (i3), an entity that managed to award in three Fondecyt instruments: Regular, Initiation and Postdoctorate”.

Units and researchers awarded

Of the 25 projects, the faculties of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering led in number of awards with five. They were followed by the Faculty of Economics and Business with four; the Institute of Biological Sciences with three; the Institute of Mathematics with two approved projects; while the faculties of Legal and Social Sciences, Health Sciences and Psychology, the School of Medicine and the Interdisciplinary Research Institute (i3) obtained an award.

Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
Cesar Acevedo Opazo
Philip Laurie Gleisner
Gustavo Lobo Prats
Mauricio Lolas Caneo
Samuel Ortega Farias

Faculty of Engineering
Pablo Acuna Rios
Jans Alzate Morales
Wendy Gonzalez
Carlos Restrepo Patino
Gonzalo Riadi Mahias

Faculty of Economics and Business
Alexander Cataldo
Carlos Chavez Rebolledo
Dany Jaimovich Busel
Mauricio Sarrias Jeraldo

Institute of Biological Sciences
Freddy Mora Poblete
Frida Piper Busico
Claudio Ramirez Rivera

Institute of Mathematics
stephen griffeth
Sergey Trofimchuk

Institute of Natural Resources Chemistry
john amalraj

Interdisciplinary Research Institute (i3)
Alex Fajardo Yanez

Faculty of Psychology
Andres Fresno Rodriguez

Faculty of Health Sciences
Luis Guzman Jofre

Faculty of social and legal sciences
Carolina Riveros Ferrada

Medicine School
Leandro Zuniga Hormazabal