The Government of Catalonia awards this medal, institutionalized in 1982, to ten researchers of the Catalan knowledge system foir their contributions to the development of science and technology

Jordi Alberch, Anna Alberni and Petia Radeva, professors at the University of Barcelona, have been awarded the Narcís Monturiol Medal to scientific and technological merits. The Government of Catalonia awards this medal, institutionalized in 1982, to ten researchers of the Catalan knowledge system foir their contributions to the development of science and technology.

Anna Alberni Jordà holds a degree in English Philology and a PhD in Catalan Philology from the University of Barcelona. Since the academic year 2009-2010, she has been an ICREA research professor and associate professor in the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics of the UB’s Faculty of Philology and Communication. Her research focuses on the edition and study of medieval Catalan poetry from the 14^th-15^th centuries, with special attention to the formal and linguistic aspects of the transmission and reception of Romanesque lyric poetry in the Middle Ages. She is a member of the Culture and Literature in the Late Middle Ages Group and of the UB Institute for Research on Medieval Cultures (IRCVM), and has been a researcher at the Italian universities of Rome La Sapienza and L’Aquila (2003-2005).

Within the framework of the University of Barcelona, the awards also recognized the professor of the Department of Biomedicine of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Jordi Alberch Vié, and the professor of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics and member of the Institute of Mathematics of the UB (IMUB), Petia Radeva.

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