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Prof. Dr. Juan José Egozcue
Department of Applied Mathematics III
Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
e-mail: juan.jose.egozcue@upc.edu
Prof. Dr. Egozcue studied Physics, oriented to Geophysics and Meteorology, at the University of Barcelona (Spain). He obtained his PhD in the same university with a dissertation on maximum entropy spectral analysis (1982). In 1978 he got a position as a lecturer in the school of civil engineering in Barcelona (Escuela de Ingeniería de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, UPC), teaching several topics on applied mathematics. In 1983 he started teaching Probability and Statistics. He became Associate Professor in 1985, and Full Professor in 1989, in the UPC, where he has been Chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics III and vice-rector of the university. His research activities are presently centered in two lines: Estimation of natural hazards using Bayesian methods, specially applied to seismic, rainfall and ocean wave hazards; and Statistical analysis of compositional data, with special emphasis in the geometry of the sample space, the simplex. He has been leader of several research projects. Nowadays, his main project is on vulnerability of dikes under action of severe ocean waves (granted by the Port Authority of Spain) and participates actively in a project of compositional data analysis supported by the Spanish ministry for education and science and leaded by the University of Girona.
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Prof. Dr. Raimon Tolosana-Delgado
Maritime Engineering Laboratory
Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
e-mail: raimon.tolosana@upc.edu
Dr. Tolosana-Delgado studied Engineering Geology at the Technical University of Catalonia, and got his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Pawlowsky, in a doctorate program on environmental sciences at the University of Girona. In 2007 he got the Andrei Borisovich Vistelius Research Award for young geoscientists of the International Association for Mathematical Geology. He has been in the University of Göttingen (Germany) for almost three years in a post-doctoral stage, where he combined his main occupation as researcher (on sediment geochemistry evolution modelling) with lessons on multivariate statistics, geostatistics and compositional data analysis for the last years' students of the Geosciences Center of the University of Göttingen. Since 2009 he is fellow researcher of the LIM (Maritime Engineering Laboratory). His current area of research is related to statistical characterization of climate and data assimilation.
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Prof. Dr. Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn
Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
University of Girona, Spain
e-mail: vera.pawlowsky@udg.edu
Dr. Pawlowsky-Glahn is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of the University of Girona (Spain). She studied Mathematics at the University of Barcelona in Spain and obtained her PhD (doctor rerum naturam) from the Free University of Berlin in Germany. Before going to Girona, she was professor at the School of Civil Engineering of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona. Her main research topic since 1982 has been the statistical analysis of compositional data. The results obtained over the years have been published in multiple articles, proceedings and a book in the Oxford University Press series Studies in Mathematical Geology. She has been guest editor for a special issue on this topic for Mathematical Geology in 2005 and has acted, together with A. Buccianti and G. Mateu-Figueras, as editor of a book on compositional data analysis published by the Geological Society, London, as special publication 264. She is the leader of a research group on this topic involving professors from different Spanish universities located in Girona, Barcelona, Murcia and Cáceres. The group organises every two years a workshop on compositional data analysis, known as CoDaWork, and their research has received regularly financial support from the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science and from the University Department of the Catalan Government. Prof. Dr. Pawlowsky-Glahn has been vice-chancellor at UPC from 1990 to 1994, head of the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of Girona in 2004-05, and dean of the Graduate School of the University of Girona in 2005-06. She received in 2006 the William Christian Krumbein Medal of IAMG; the John Cedric Griffiths teaching award in 2008, and was Distinguished Lecturer of the IAMG in 2007.
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