The US professor and IMSE researcher Ángel Rodríguez Vázquez receives the Fama award for his Research and Transfer Career in the Area of Engineering and Architecture

On March 19, 2024, the Universidad de Sevilla held the ceremony to present the Fama Awards for research career. On this occasion, the awards corresponding to the 2021-22 and 2022-23 editions have been awarded.

The objective of this award, whose call is included in the VII Own Research and Transfer Plan of the Universidad de Sevilla, is to recognize and disseminate the merits accumulated by the teaching and research staff of the US during a research career of excellence developed in the Universidad de Sevilla.

Since their creation in 2006, these awards annually recognize the research career of US professors in each of the five major areas of knowledge. With them, among other objectives, we contribute to disseminating the merits of the most relevant and longest-serving researchers at the Universidad de Sevilla.

The winners of the Fama Universidad de Sevilla award corresponding to the 2021-22 academic year have been Rafael Cano Aguilar, in the Arts and Humanities branch; Josep Casadesús Pursals, posthumously, in the branch of Sciences; Carolina Sousa Martín, in Health Sciences; José Luis Galán González, in Social and Legal Sciences; and María del Mar Loren Méndez, in Engineering and Architecture.

In the 2022-23 academic year, the winners were Carmen Mena García, in the Arts and Humanities branch; Justo Puerto Albandoz, in the Science branch; Inés Martín Lacave, in the Health Sciences branch; Manuel Ángel Vázquez Medel, in the branch of Social and Legal Sciences; and Ángel Rodríguez Vázquez, in the Engineering and Architecture branch.

Ángel Rodríguez Vázquez career

Ángel Rodríguez Vázquez receives the award for his extensive research career in the field of microelectronics, with very outstanding contributions in the design of analog and mixed signal circuits for sensors, communications, and data processing. He has directed more than 50 national and international research projects and is the author of hundreds of high-impact publications. Inventor on numerous patents related to artificial vision and bioelectronics, he was co-founder of the company Anafocus, today Teledyne-Anafocus, a global supplier of image sensors. Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the first Spanish researcher to receive the Mac van Valkenburg award from this international academy. He has been a promoter of the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla.