upc.eduDr. Adria Rovira Garcia joined the research group of Astronomy and Geomatics (gAGE) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), in March 2009. His research focusses in precise positioning by means of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and the modelling of the upper Earth atmosphere, partially ionized. His publication record is available in futur, the website for the scientific production of UPC researchers.
Since January 1st, 2020, he has been a Professor in the Serra Húnter program at the UPC, first as a lecturer and since February 13th 2023 as an associate professor, attached to the Physics department and the Aerospace section. He lectures in the bachelor of Engineering in Aerospace Technologies (GRETA) and the University Master in Aeronautical Engineering (MUEA). Updated information on the supervised PhD Thesis, Master Thesis, Bachelor Thesis and End of Career Projects can be supervised in apren, the website for teaching production of UPC staff.
In 2018 he received the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action titled High Accuracy Navigation under Scintillation Conditions (NAVSCIN). During this post-doctoral international period, Adria visited the European Commission Joint Research Center (JRC) in Ispra (Italy) and the Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Hanoi (Vietnam) improving the positioning accurate under ionospheric scintillation conditions. In 2017 he was a visiting scientist for 6 months at the European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC) of the European Space Agency (ESA) located in Noordwijk (Netherlands) in the context of a José Castillejos mobility for young doctors funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Spain. At this stage he developed advanced position calculation algorithms with short convergence times. In 2016, he received his doctorate in Aerospace Science and Technology (DOCTA) from the UPC which was co-financed by the ESA and the company FUGRO, performing pre-doctoral stays at ESTEC for 6 months and received three awards: 1) from the United States Institute of Navigation (ION), 2) the European Geoscience Union (EGU) and 3) the Doctoral School of the UPC for the best Thesis in the field of science.