Emilio Lora-Tamayo, president of the CSIC on two occasions, dies at 74

2024-03-29 15:41:30

Updated Friday, March 29, 2024 – 16:41

Emilio Lora-Tamayo, president of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) between 2003-2004 and 2012-2017, has died at the age of 74, as reported by the scientific institution.

“The CSIC is sorry to announce the death of Emilio Lora Tamayo, President of the institution between 2003-2004 and 2012-2017. From the scientific community we want to accompany his family and friends in these sad moments and thank Emilio for his work in favor of science,” lamented this Friday the president of the CSIC, Elosa del Pino, in a publication on the social network

Emilio Lora-Tamayo, who was appointed last October honorary life rector of the Camilo Jos Cela University, he had a doctorate in Physical Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, and obtained the Diplme d’tudes Approfondies at the Universit Paul Sabatier, in Toulouse. He was a visiting researcher in that same city for two years, at the ENSAE and the LAAS-CNRS, and four years at the LETI in Grenoble.

He has been president of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC) on two occasions, from 2003 to 2004 and from 2012 to 2017, and Previously, he was vice president of this same organization from 1996 to 2003.

He has also served as Professor of Electronics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and researcher guest at UC Berkeley. Lora-Tamayo was also honorary life rector of the Menndez Pelayo International University (UIMP).

His time at the Camilo José Cela University was marked by the establishment of its four strategic axes: entrepreneurship and innovation, technology and digitalization, social impact, and well-being.

On the other hand, in March 2020, after the announcement of confinement due to the Covid-19 pandemic, he led the introduction of the Extended Teaching-Learning Model of the UCJC, which strengthened the transition from a traditional teaching model. learning based on the acquisition of knowledge to the learning model based on the acquisition of skillsgoing beyond physical spaces and combining different environments and digital educational objects in their processes, with active and collaborative methodologies.