The Institute of Animal Science and Technology (ICTA) of the Universitat Politècnica de València is the main research centre devoted to the science and technology of animal production in the Valencia region.
Who we are
Our mission
Our aim is to improve the productivity, sustainability and quality of animal production in the Valencian Community, and by extension, also at national and international level.
Fundamental research of excellence and knowledge transfer to the livestock sector
Collaboration among our colleagues and with external researchers
Excellent education
Public and social commitment
Executive team
University Professor, he focuses his research in the field of livestock and the environment, in two main lines: the impact of livestock on the environment (particularly atmospheric emissions) and environmental control of livestock housing. He has been the principal investigator of 2 projects of the national research plan and has participated in another 5. Additionally, he has directed various research contracts with companies and has participated in an EraNet. He has published more than 40 articles in international impact journals and regularly participates in national and international conferences in his area of study, where he has made more than 100 contributions. He has directed 7 doctoral theses and is a regular reviewer of articles for journals in his field of study. He is an active member of scientific societies: between 2017 and 2022 he was coordinator of the REMEDIA Network (Scientific network for climate change mitigation in the agroforestry sector) and secretary of the working group on air conditioning in hot climates of the International Commission on Rural Engineering (CIGR). ). He has collaborations with researchers from the main national and international centers on livestock and the environment. He is an evaluator of projects in national research programs. Additionally, he has experience in university management (he was deputy director of the Department of Animal Science from 2008 to 2012) and since 2018 he has been coordinator of the promotion of titles from the Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering and the Natural Environment of the UPV.
Professor of the Department of Animal Science. His research has focused mainly on two lines: Study of reproductive physiology and Development of cryopreservation methodologies and evaluation of gametic / embryonic quality. He has directed three doctoral theses and has published more than 200 scientific contributions, of which 90 are research publications in prestigious international journals or book chapters. He has carried out more than 2 years of postdoctoral stays, most of them in foreign centers of international prestige (Norwegian University of Life Science (Oslo, Norway); Museum National D’Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France); Norwegian Institute of Food, Fishery and Aquaculture, NOFIMA (Tromso, Norway), endorsed by 33 publications in SCI journals with international authors.He has led 9 research projects, 3 of them international.In addition, he has participated in 26 research projects, 4 of them European, 6 national , 13 local or regional and 3 non-competitive.Member of the Organizing Committee and the Scientific Committee of 4 international congresses.Reviewer in 18 JCR journals in the animal production sector and editor of Animals magazine (ISSN 2076-2615).Awards for the best doctoral thesis both as a doctoral candidate and as supervisor, and for the best poster at international conferences. He has received a total of 19 research grants, four of them post-doctoral contracts.
Associate professor in the Department of Animal Science. Her research by Ella focuses on the nutrition of aquaculture species such as sea bream, bass, sea bass, yellowtail and more recently the octopus. She has also collaborated on other related topics such as eel reproduction or the use of digestive enzymes, assessment of the intestinal microbiome or the quality of products. She has participated in more than 35 competitive research projects funded in public tenders and contracts with companies. She has supervised six PhD theses and published over 150 scientific contributions, of which more than 40 are publications in indexed journals. She was a member of the Organizing Committee and the Scientific Committee in several editions of the National Congress on Aquaculture and the Second International Workshop on Biology of Fish Gametes. She has been a reviewer for the scientific journals Aquaculture and Aquaculture Research since 2008 and has published a book for the Spanish Ministry of Environmental and Rural Affairs. Finally, she received an award from the AquaTIC journal for her presentations and posters at several editions of the National Congress on Aquaculture.
Staff
Animal production systems and technologies
Director:
Prof. Nemesio Fernández Martínez
Investigadores: