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

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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, Eloísa del Pino, in a publication on the social network X.

Emilio Lora-Tamayo, who was named honorary life rector

last October by the Camilo José Cela University

, had a doctorate in Physical Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, and obtained the Diplôme d'Études Approfondies at the Université Paul Sabatier, in Toulouse. He was a visiting researcher in that same city for two years, at ENSAE and LAAS-CNRS, and four years at LETI in Grenoble.

He has been president of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) on two occasions, from 2003 to 2004 and from 2012 to 2017, and

before that he was vice president of this same organization from 1996 to 2003.

He has also served as

a professor of Electronics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona

and a

visiting researcher at the University of Berkeley

. Lora-Tamayo was also

honorary life rector of the Menéndez 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 UCJC's Extended Teaching-Learning Model, which strengthened the transition from a traditional learning model

based on the acquisition of knowledge. to the learning model based on the acquisition of skills

, going beyond physical spaces and combining different environments and digital educational objects in their processes, with active and collaborative methodologies.