Proyecto Severo Ochoa IFIC 20 diciembre 2017 Severo

Proyecto Severo Ochoa IFIC 20 diciembre 2017, Severo Ochoa, J. J. Hernández Rey 1

Midterm evaluation (2015 -2017) q Documentos requeridos v Memoria económica abreviada 2015 - 2017 v Self-evaluation Report 2015 -2017 Summary 1. Activities and Outputs 2015 -2017 2. Indicators 2. 1 Comment on present indicators 2. 2 Updated objectives 3. Benchmarking (comparison to other centres) 4. Summary of expenditures 5. External evaluations 6. Improvement in the research program v Main Planning and Monitoring Indicators o Currrent values o Updated monitoring indicators v Difusión, comunicación y publicidad de la ayuda o Informe detallado con ejemplos concretos v Informe del Comité científico asesor v Libres o Report to the Scientific Advisory Committee v Informes voluntarios o No se enviaron q Exposición presencial v Expertos de varias disciplinas v Exposición de 20 minutos v 40 minutos de preguntas 2

Scientific Advisory Committee q Current SAC members: Gustavo C. Branco (CFTP/IST, University of Lisbon) William Gelletly (University of Surrey) Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin) Cecilia Jarlskog, Chair (University of Lund) Peter Jenni (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg and CERN) Antonio Masiero (INFN and University of Padova) Tatsuya Nakada (EPFL, Lausanne) Bing-Song Zou (IHEP, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) q Meeting July 19 -20, 2017 v Two presentations (Director and member of SC) v A report previously delivered v Interviews with young and senior researchers v Visit to labs and premises q Positive report: v Considered we were pursuing the promised mission of the SO project v Underlined that our research focuses in topics at the forefront of today’s physics research v Approved our successful recruiting and career fostering actions v Praised our effort on innovation and transfer v Judged positively outreach, colloquia, etc. q Pointed out areas of concern v Rejuvenation of scientists v Gender issues v Technical personnel 3

Monitoring indicators • High-impact scientific publications: number and impact of the records published by IFIC authors in the first quartile in any subject category (as found in the main databases: Web of Science/JCR or Scopus/SJR) • Presentation of results at conferences and workshops by IFIC members: total number per year (invited, plenary, parallel talks, as well as posters) • Recruiting and training: number of finished Ph. D theses with IFIC advisors. Since the organization of seminars and colloquia is fruitful for the training of young researchers, the number of seminars and colloquia are included as indicators. • Granted patents and other Intellectual Property Rights: the number of International Patent Applications (PCT) and License Grants Delivered. • External sources of funding: focusing on the European Funding Agencies, we proposed as indicators the amount of funding obtained from European calls (including ERC, H 2020 and others) and the number of ERC projects obtained by IFIC researchers. • Dissemination and outreach activities involving IFIC members: here we followed CSIC’s indicators and proposed the total number of outreach events and materials. • Gender indicator: people hired under the S. O. project. As a general rule, for the key quantitative indicators (number of high-quality publications, Ph. D theses, seminars, etc. ), the comparison of a homogenous period of five years 2014 -2018 with the previously known results of the period 2009 -2013 was proposed, where the year 2013 acted as baseline. We show in Table 1 the progress of the selected indicators, with data up to June 2017, except for the number of talks at conferences and outreach activities (not yet fully available for the present year). 4

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q We achieve the goals in the key quantitative indicators q Scientific publications in Q 1 v Proposed 30% increase: 219 papers/year (reference) → 284 papers/year (target) v At midterm: 396 papers/year Indicators q High level training: Ph. D Theses defended v Proposed 10% increase: 12. 8/year (reference) → 14 (target) v At midterm: 15. 5 year q Presentation at conferences v Proposed 5% increase: 250/year (reference) → 260/year (target) v At midterm: 316/year • Other targets are met too v v European Projects: 3. 8 M€ (reference) → 6. 65 M€ (target). Now: 4. 07 M€ ERC grants: 1 Advanced + 1 Consolidator Licensed grants: 0 (ref) → 4 (target). Now: 2 … q Gender, a very ambitious goal: > 30% v 38% (predocs) + 22% (postdocs) + 20% (engineers and others) q We revise upwards our indicator targets v Increase in Scientific publications Q 1: 30% → 50% v Increase in Ph. D Theses: 10% → 20% v Dissemination and outreach: 10% 6

Recruiting, career fostering (SRP 8. 2. 2) Ry. C Scientist E/T Call Status Michel Sorel exp 2008 Contract S 8 A → CT-2015 Luis Alvarez Ruso teo 2009 Extension S 8 A → CT-2015 Cesar Domingo Pardo exp 2010 Extension S 8 A → CT-2015 v Dedicated call with overwhelming response. Jose E. García Navarro exp 2010 Extension S 8 A → CT-2016 v 15 positions filled Roberto Ruiz de Austri teo 2010 Extension S 8 A → CT-2016 q Fostering “Ramón y Cajal” researchers career v Fund contract extensions: exceedingly successful results q Attracting excellent postdocs Postdocs q Predoc recruiting and career fostering v Fully benefit from FPI and “la Caixa” Ph. D contracts Year v “Bridge” contracts for starting and end phases Year q Winning attention of brilliant undergraduate students v Summer Student Programme. v Make good students aware of IFIC possibilities 8 7 15 Master Students FPI La Caixa Bridge 2015/2016 6 3 2 2016/2017 4 3 2 2017/2018 4 Total 14 v Take advantage of PTA Programme 2 6 2 1 1 TOTAL Ph. D Students v “Pick” the best master students Mechanics: Electronics: Computing: Management: Outreach: TEO 2015/2016 q Master student’s programme q Reinforce experimental activities with engineers/technicians EXP 6 Theo Exp 2015/2016 8 5 2016/2017 3 5 2017/2018 3 5 Total 14 15 Year Applications Freshmen Sophomores Juniors Seniors Total 2016 Received 5 3 17 12 11 4 2 1 35 20 Applications Freshmen Sophomores Juniors Seniors Total Received 16 7 20 10 13 3 11 2 60 22 Accepted Summer Students 4 Year 2017 Accepted 7

• • • How are permanent positions opened? How do you measure the impact of your outreach? How do you see the future of particle physics in the coming years? • • How do you tackle the problem of hundreds of authors in papers? Why do you have so few women as speakers in Colloquia and Seminar? 8

“The Monitoring Committee considers that the thorough material provided for the Mid Term Evaluation, the extensive SAC report of July 2017 and the very effective presentation from the Director, clearly indicate that IFIC is running at an excellent rate during the first grant period of the SO program, with visible benefits and solid progress on all aspects. The SO grant has been used wisely, with an optimal strategy and tangible results. The added value of the excellence award has been cleverly exploited. In agreement with the extremely positive SAC evaluation, one can say that IFIC is an institute that operates at the highest international scientific level and that, after the relatively short period of 2 years, it has already shown a remarkable growth and very high benefits from the SO grant. IFIC has pursued its planned scientific mission with excellent outcome, strengthening areas related to new physics on both theory and experimental side, and setting up measures to produce cutting edge technology. The results obtained and the roles played are surely belonging to the highest levels of the international panorama, where IFIC has gained a significantly increased visibility. ” 9

Excelentes ¡hasta en burocracia! Concluido el Acuerdo CSIC-UV para el S 8 A Ha llevado dos años el incluir a la UV como beneficiario asociado del Proyecto Severo Ochoa La opinión era : “Lasciate ogni speranza!” El retraso va a causar algunas disfunciones, pero es positivo que el acuerdo UV-CSIC se haya aprobado 10

Calendario de la petición de declaración de la UV como beneficiario asociado 17/09/2015: Escrito al Equipo Gestor (S. G. Planificación y Seguimiento) solicitando transferencia de fondos a la UV. 09/12/2015: Respuesta equipo Gestor: es posible, hay que hacer instancia a través de FACILIT@. Explican qué documentos hay que entregar. 14/12/2015: Contactamos convenios del CSIC (ya estaba previamente hablado y aceptado a nivel VICYT y Vicerrectorado Investigación UV). Convenios del CSIC envía plantilla de convenio. Rellenamos plantilla. Interaccionamos con la Universidad para llegar a un Convenio aceptable para CSIC y UV. 03/03/2016: Tras varias iteraciones se pasa un borrador del Convenio al equipo Gestor SO 04/03/2016: Sugerencias del equipo Gestor incorporadas. Nueva versión enviada. 11/04/2016: Tras diversas iteraciones con el equipo Gestor se envía otra nueva versión del Convenio. 23/04/2016: Versión final del Convenio para subir a FACILIT@. Se presenta la instancia en FACILIT@ 04/05/2016: Algún problema con la VICYT del CSIC. 06/05/2016: El Representante Legal del CSIC firma la instancia. 09/05/2016: Se envían algunos documentos más que pide el Equipo Gestor. 08/09/2016: En revisión por la Intervención. 21/09/2016: La Presidencia de la Agencia Estatal de Investigación “autoriza con efectos desde el día de la firma del Convenio […] la aplicación de la condición de beneficiario a la Universidad de Valencia” 28/09/2016: El MINHAP comunica al CSIC que se paraliza el acuerdo para dar cumplimiento a la Orden de cierre de ejercicio dada por Hacienda el pasado 16 de julio 09/02/2017: La Secretaría de Estado de Presupuestos y Gastos informa favorablemente, pero la Ley 40/2015 exige nuevos requisitos: informe de la Abogacía del Estado y autorización del Ministerio de Hacienda. El CSIC nos pide una “Memoria Justificativa” según modelo. 14/02/2017: Se envía al CSIC Memoria Justificativa. La VORI pide al abogado del Estado informe. 11/07/2017: Convenios del CSIC nos comunica que el abogado del Estado ha emitido informe favorable sobre el convenio. Pero nos indican quedan los siguientes pasos: Autorización del Ministerio de Presidencia Autorización de firma de Hacienda Ratificación del Consejo de Ministros Registro y publicación en el BOE. 29/09/2017: El área de convenios dice que el convenio está en Consejo de Ministros y que una vez aprobado, sólo faltaría registro y publicación en el BOE. Nos piden el documento RC de retención de créditos. 06/10/2017: Nos piden de nuevo un texto sobre el objeto del convenio. Se les envía. 15/11/2017: Recibimos de la Vicesecretaria General Técnica del CSIC el Acuerdo de Ministros diligenciado. 16/11/2017: Convenio firmado por CSIC (VORI) y UV (Vice de Iy. PC) 8/12/2017: Convenio publicado en el B. O. E. 11

Conclusiones q The SO had a large impact in recruiting and career fostering v Instrumental in stabilising our hard-won Ry. Cs v Critical in supporting our experimental activities with technical personnel v Helped amplify our training and research capacities (Ph. D’s, postdocs. master and undergraduates) q It has bolstered cohesion v Groups have been drawn together and it helped shape the research q Visibility of the institute has increased sizeably v Professionally, in the media, with the general public q Other advantages v Matching funds for equipment and infrastructure calls v Heterodox, creative support (e. g. Japan-Spain industry meeting ILC, extreme life in underground labs) v Fringe benefits and perks v Invited to policy committees (e. g. GVA call design → promote excellence) v Participate in transfer initiatives and the like. 12

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