Carme Torras#
| Membership Number: | 2794 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www-iri.upc.es/people/torras |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1991-pres.: Research Professor at the Spanish Council of Scientific Research (CSIC)
- 1987-1991: Scientific Researcher at the Spanish Council of Scientific Research (CSIC)
- 1986-1987: Associate Professor in the area of Systems Engineering and Automatics at UPC
- 1981-1986: Research Assistant at the Institut de Cibernètica (CSIC-UPC)
- 1979-1981: Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts
- 1978-1979: Systems Analyst at Texas Instruments, Spain
Fields of Scholarship
- Robotics
- Artificial intelligence
Honours and Awards
- 1985: Prize "Rafael Campalans" of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans
- 2000: Narcís Monturiol Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya
- 2007: Fellow of EurAI (European Association for Artificial Intelligence)
- 2010: Member of Academia Europaea
- 2013: Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona
- 2017: Member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans
- 2017: Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC)
- 2019: Fellow of IEEE
- 2019: Prize Julio Peláez to Pioneer Women in Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics, Fundación Tatiana Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno
- 2019: Fellow of ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems)
- 2020: Catalan National Research Award, Government of Catalonia
- 2020: Spanish National Research Award “Julio Rey Pastor” in Mathematics and Information and Communication Technologies
- 2022: Robotics Professional Career Award, Industry 4.0 Committee, Professional Associations of Engineering
- 2022: Elected Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering
