Soledad Gandía, professor of Physics of Earth, has been re-elected as the dean of the Faculty of Physics of Universitat de València. Gandía has won 30 in favour, 7 blank and 4 invalid votes. The other candidate, Vicent J. Martínez, has moved his candidacy away before voting. José Luis Cruz, Álvaro Pons, Fernando Martínez and Arantxa Triana accompany the new dean.
Soledad Gandía Franco (Villanueva de Castellón, 1952) graduated in 1974at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and received a doctorate in 1983 at Universitat de València. She has been teacher in charge at School of Architecture of UPC (1975–1977); she has been an Assistant Professor (1978–1982); an associate professor (1982–1986) and a university lecturer since 1986 at the Faculty of Physics at Universitat de València.
Her teaching experience is of 40 years at every university levels (grade/degree/post-grade) both at the Physics degree as at other external ones at the Faculty of Physics. She has six five-year periods of teaching; she is an editor of the teaching publications of remote sensing courses at Universitat de València, and she is the author of some of their contributions.
At the research field, Soledad Gandía is in groups of remote sensing field since 1980; she has participated in the European Space Agency projects, of the European Community and other organisms of national and autonomous character. She has worked at measurements campaigns in the framework of the definition of missions for ESA. She has got several publications related to micrometeorology, to environmental pollution and, fundamentally, to the field of remote sensing.
The new dean has been secretary of the Physics Department of Terra i Termodinàmica (1987-1989 and 1998-2004); secretary at the Faculty of Physics (2004- 2005); member of Consell de Govern at Universitat de València as the representative of the claustrum (2005-2006), director of the Physics Department of Terra i Termodinàmica since 2005, and a member of the claustrum and the Faculty Boards
She has also coordinated the design of the Official Master’s degree in Remote Sensing of Universitat de València, which she is the director since 2009 and the director of the doctorate programme of remote sensing of the Physics Department of Terra i Termodinàmica since its approval in 2009.
Last update: 24 de february de 2015 12:36.
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