This is the second time that both journals achieved to get the same fund, which aims at optimizing the editorial process and improving the international visibility of each one of them. In this call, the project was in first place at the national level among the selected projects.

Dr. Rodolfo Figueroa, the director of the Center for Medical Physics and Engineering of the Universidad de la Frontera, was distinguished as VEBLEO-Fellow, a recognition awarded by international scientific peers for his contribution to innovation.

The Universidad de La Frontera starts this year with 36 new FONDECYT (“Chilean National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development”) Projects (14 Regular, 10 Initiation in Research, and 12 Post-Doctoral Projects).

The projects of Jacquelinne Acuña, Carolina Merino, Cledir Santos and Francisco Matus, who are part of the agronomy group, will each have a duration of four years.

Two papers of Dr. Pablo Riquelme, an academic of the Department of Physical Sciences of the Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO) were cited in Scientific Background on the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021, where the arguments are given that allowed Dr. Giorgio Parisi of the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) to be distinguished with the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021.

Teams of future engineers of both universities are working on different projects to find business-oriented solutions.