{"id":257599,"date":"2025-02-04T12:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T11:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/?p=257599"},"modified":"2025-02-04T13:10:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:10:23","slug":"laura-alonso-martinez-extraordinary-doctoral-award-in-the-field-of-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/laura-alonso-martinez-extraordinary-doctoral-award-in-the-field-of-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Alonso Mart\u00ednez and Manuel Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez Fern\u00e1ndez receive the extraordinary doctoral award"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an extraordinary session, and the first of the year 2025, the Governing Council of the University of Vigo approved this Friday the list of people distinguished with the Extraordinary Doctoral Awards for the 2023\/2024 academic year.<\/strong> In total, 21 researchers (13 men and 8 women) from all fields of knowledge.<\/p>\n

In the field of humanities, three people were awarded: Iria Seijas P\u00e9rez, Jes\u00fas Meiri\u00f1o G\u00f3mez and Ant\u00eda Iglesias Fern\u00e1ndez. In the field of sciences, there are six and the awardees: Amaro Saco Beiroa, Ant\u00eda Gonz\u00e1lez Pereira, Clara Otero Mart\u00ednez, Pablo Hern\u00e1ndez Lucas, Carlos Rafael Vidal and Manuel Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>. In the field of engineering, the five awards are for Laura Alonso Mart\u00ednez<\/strong>, Iv\u00e1n Mart\u00ednez Est\u00e9vez, David Candal Ventureira, Manuel Casal Guisande and Brais Barros Gonz\u00e1lez. Finally, in the legal-social field, the awards go to Evelia Murcia \u00c1lvarez, Nuno Andr\u00e9 Pinto de Sousa, Dolores Fiel Varela, Marta Gonz\u00e1lez Gonz\u00e1lez, Lucas L\u00f3pez Manuel, Hugo P\u00e9rez Manuel and Andr\u00e9s Carrera Hortas.<\/p>\n

In her award-winning thesis, researcher Laura Alonso Mart\u00ednez, CINTECX researcher, used different combinations of remote sensors to monitor the state of the forests, developing a methodology to generate a forest resource map. This methodology also serves to automatically identify specific tree species, being able to evaluate and prevent forest fires in this type of system.<\/p>\n

This combination of methods developed to obtain forest resource maps will help inform decisions on key species in this type of forest system, since studies focused on the monitoring of forest fires have revealed that special attention should be paid to burned areas when planning forest fire management. Furthermore, from an operational point of view, this use of open access data sources will mean that the products developed can be implemented more easily.<\/p>\n

In his thesis, Manuel Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez Fern\u00e1ndez introduces innovations in advanced rock mechanics tests, their interpretation and the development of preliminary models.The work analyzes the anisotropy of the rocks and the scale effects on their resistance and deformability, especially in slates, characterized by a transverse anisotropy due to their foliation. The researcher performed non-destructive (wave propagation speed) and destructive (uniaxial and triaxial compression) tests, obtaining mechanical parameters such as Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio.<\/p>\n

Scale effects in hard rocks were studied through triaxial tests with recent models (USEL and IUSEL), challenging the classical theory. In addition, numerical simulations were carried out with the discrete element method (DEM). These studies improve the understanding of rock mechanics and contribute to the safer design of excavations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both researchers of the GESSMIN group, attached to CINTECX, obtained the award for their thesis: Developing of new methods to forest heritage characterization and management through remote sensing and Stress-strain behaviour analysis of slate and intact and jointed granite lab samplesdeformational and strength parameters, scale effects and tentative models<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":257594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duvi-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257609,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257599\/revisions\/257609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}