What we do
Polytechnic University of Valencia

The ai2 Institute, located at the Polytechnic City of Innovation at UPV, is a center of research excellence in the areas of industrial engineering, information technology, bioengineering, telecommunications, electronics and automatic control.




What we do?

Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) is currently considered one of the leading universities in Spain, being the single Science and Technology University in Spain to feature in all worlds’ university rankings. Founded in 1971, it comprises nearly 30,000 students, over 2,500 academics and researchers, and 17 university research centres of excellence driven to solve the challenges of the European citizens.

UPV is among the Spanish Universities with the highest revenue from competitive research (R&D contracts, consulting and service delivery, spin-off) and a national leader in patent exploitation and has been awarded by the European Commission with the seal 'HR Excellence in Research' (https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hrs4r#show_SPAIN), which gives public recognition to research institutions that have made progress in aligning their human resource policies with the principles set out in the "Charter & Code".

UPV has participated in 129 FP7 actions and led 20 of them. In H2020, UPV has participated or is currently participating in nearly 170 signed actions, coordinating 30 of them (October 2020), being also a partner in several major partnering initiatives (JTIs, PPPs, KICs…). Last updated and more detailed information regarding the participation of UPV in European programmes can be found at https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/how-to-participate/org-details/999864846#

The Institute of Industrial Control Systems and Computing, better known as the ai2 Institute, is a center of research excellence at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). Its goal is to approximate the results of R&D to companies and institutions. Since it was born in 2000, until today, its team develops several projects seeking to increase the value of local business and giving more competition, identifying the real needs of companies to provide feasible solutions tailored to their operation.

The ai2 Institute, located at the Polytechnic City of Innovation, hosts more than 100 researchers in the areas of industrial engineering, information technology, bioengineering, telecommunications, electronics and automatic control. The Control of Complex Systems Group (GCSC) of the ai2 Institute is the only research group of Systems and Synthetic Biology within the Systems and Control Engineering area in Spain. The group has a longstanding and outstanding experience in the fields of Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology and biotechnology, supported by an important number of publications in these fields, as well as by their participation in national and European research projects.

Role in the project

The Principal Investigator for UPV in the ShikiFactory100 is Pablo Carbonell. UPV will contribute expertise for in silico pathway design, including retrosynthesis and pathway enumeration (WP2).



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