Fabiola Cavaliere has awarded with a Pioner Award by CERCA institution in recognition of her PhD thesis titled «Static and dynamic global stiffness analysis for automotive pre-design». Cavaliere's PhD thesis was co-directed by the leader of the Credible data-driven models research group at CIMNE, Pedro Díez, jointly Rubén Sevilla (Swansea University) and Sergio Zlotnik (UPC/Lacàn).
The Pioner awards recognize those researchers from a CERCA centre who have just produced a doctoral thesis with clearly market-oriented results.
From 2018 to 2022, Fabiola Cavaliere was a researcher PhD Candidate at CIMNE, funded by the Marie Curie Programme. Her PhD involved academic institutions (UPC/CIMNE and the Swansea University) and an industrial partner: SEAT, SA. The program included a stay at the automobile company, which Cavaliere has joined as a AI Structural Simulation Engineer after her PhD.
Fabiola Cavaliere receiving the award during the ceremony
The event, chaired by the Honorable Minister for Research and Universities of the Catalan Government and President of CERCA, Joaquim Nadal, gathered together the awardees, their families and centre directors in an event held by the end of December.