Mateo Valero, Doctor Honoris Causa of the University Cristóbal Colon, in Mexico

07 April 2022

The university thus wishes to recognise Valero's commitment to using information technologies at the service, development and well-being of society.

This brings to 10 the number of Honorary Doctorates awarded to the director of the BSC.

Due to his significant contributions, Valero is considered to be one of the people who has contributed most to Computer Architecture in the last 25 years.

He has published some 700 articles, has collaborated in the organisation of more than 300 international conferences and has given more than 700 lectures.

The director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Mateo Valero, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering and Architecture by the University Cristóbal Colón in the city of Veracruz, Mexico. This is the first Honorary Doctorate awarded by this institution, which establishes this new award by bestowing it on the director of the BSC.

The university awards this prize to Mateo Valero "in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to the field of computing and his outstanding commitment to using information technologies at the service, development and welfare of society".

The ceremony took place yesterday, Thursday, in the auditorium "Fr. Manuel Arcusa Castellá, Sch. P" auditorium of the Christopher Columbus University.

This brings to 10 the number of Honoris Causa awards Valero has received. He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the Chalmers University of Technology, University of Belgrade, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, University of Veracruz, University of Zaragoza, University Complutense of Madrid, University of Cantabria, Doctor Honoris Causa elect of the University of Granada and Doctor Honoris Causa of CINVESTAV.

About Mateo Valero

The director of BSC holds the three most important awards worldwide: the Eckert-Mauchly Prize in Computer Architecture, awarded by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), as well as the Seymour Cray Prize in Supercomputing and the Charles Babbage Prize in Parallel Computers, both awarded by the IEEE.

He has also been awarded two national research prizes (Julio Rey Pastor, in 2001, and Leonardo Torres Quevedo, in 2006) and is a member of nine scientific academies.

For his significant contributions, he is considered one of the most important contributors to Computer Architecture in the last 25 years. He has published approximately 700 articles, has collaborated in the organisation of more than 300 international conferences and has given more than 700 lectures.