Vice-rector for University Policy

vr.santiago.silvestre@upc.edu

93 401 61 10

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Santiago Silvestre Berges

  • Action plan and strategic planning 2025-2031
  • Coordination of the policies and action of the Executive Council and the academic units
  • Coordination and supervision of the Institute of Education Sciences (ICE)
  • Teaching innovation, teaching facilities and laboratories
  • Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya (FPC), UPC School
  • Affiliated schools
  • Coordination with the UNESCO Chair of Higher Education Management
  • University outreach and relations with stakeholders and economic and social actors
  • Supervision and coordination of UPC relations with institutions, administrations and local representation bodies for work on joint strategic actions
  • Representation of the rector in interuniversity decision-making and/or consultation councils and bodies

Biography

Santiago Silvestre is a full professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering. He has undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Telecommunications from the UPC. He teaches at the Barcelona School of Telecommunications Engineering (ETSETB) and has also taught at the ETSEIB and the EUPBL (currently the EETAC).

He is a member of the Micro and Nanotechnologies for Solar Energy Research Group (MNT-Solar) and carries out research in photovoltaic solar energy. His research is reflected in more than 60 publications in JCR journals and over 27 book chapters. He has an h-index of 32. He has supervised four doctoral theses and is the co-author of five patents. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2006) and a member of the editorial board of several international journals. He has participated in more than 26 research projects funded in national and international competitive calls, as well as a number of technology transfer contracts.
He was the director of the Department of Electronic Engineering (2014-2017) and the assistant director of Blended Learning Courses and New ICTs at the ETSETB (2000-2006). He was also a member of the University Senate, the Academic Council, the Governing Council, the Teaching and Students Committee and the Executive Council of the UPC as the vice-rector of Assessment and Quality (2017-2021).

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