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11 unusual facts about University of Valencia


Francisco Salva Campillo

He studied at the University of Valencia, where he completed his course in three years instead of the usual four.

Gabriel R. G. Benito

Benito has held visiting positions at Copenhagen Business School, University of Melbourne, and University of Valencia, and taught inter alia at Helsinki School of Economics (now Aalto University), Technical University of Lisbon (ISEG), University of Oslo, and University of Valencia.

José Luis Soberanes

Soberanes Fernández graduated with a bachelor's degree in law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and received a doctorate in law from the University of Valencia, in Spain.

Jose Perez Adan

At present he holds a teaching and research position in Sociology at the University of Valencia (Spain).

László Iván

He was awarded as honorary doctor of the University of Valencia (1983); Life for Years Prize (1994); Semmelweis University's Golden Ring; Pro Sanitate Commemorative Medal (1995); Knight's Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2001).

Midichloria

The genome of Midichloria mitochondrii was recently sequenced by an international scientific consortium formed by researchers belonging to the University of Milan, the University of Sydney, the University of Valencia, the University of Pavia, and the University of Milan Bicocca.

Ortifus

He has collaborated with the University of Valencia, the Polytechnic University of Valencia, the Generalitat Valenciana and The Pharmaceutical College of Valencia (for whose publication, Cuadernos de Farmática, he draws from time to time.) He has also been called upon on a number of occasions by the Valencian City Council to design monuments for the festival of Falles.

Paul Bové

Bové also holds affiliations with the Institute for Cultural Studies at the University of Valencia in Spain and the Centre for International Political Studies in Pretoria, South Africa.

Timothy S. Healy

He earned degrees in English literature and philosophy from Woodstock College and studied theology at the University of Louvain in Belgium and at the University of Valencia in Spain.

University of Valencia

At the request of Jaime I the Conqueror, Pope Innocent IV in 1246, authorized by a Bull the establishment of estudis generals in Valencia.

Among the names of illustrious students that of Tosca, Evangelista Torricelli's friend, noted physicist and author of important mathematical works, stands out prominently.


Alberto Martinelli

He also taught Sociology at Bocconi University of Milan and Political Science and Sociology in various foreign universities, among which the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, New York University, University of Valencia, Ain Shams University in Cairo and the Saint Petersburg State University.

Basque civil law

The term “Chartered Law” was used for its real first time in a letter sent by the University of Valencia staff to the King Charles the Third, with occasion of his accession to the Throne, applying for reestablishment of the Region of Valencia Civil Charter abolished by Phillip the Fifth.

Fermax

In 2006, the company signed an agreement with the University of Valencia to create the Fermax Chair in Building Automation and became a member of ITACA, the Research Laboratory at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

Fernando Bonilla-Musoles

In 1994 Bonilla and Dr. Pellicer sponsor the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2010, Robert Edwards, in his appointment as Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Valencia.

Jon Juaristi

He has occupied the chair of Spanish Philology at the University of the Basque Country, the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University, and has been titular professor of the Chair of Contemporary Thought of the Cañada Blanch Foundation at the University of Valencia.

Ricard Pérez Casado

Married with one son, Pérez studied Economic Science at University of Barcelona and graduated in Political and Social Science at Complutense University of Madrid before gaining a PhD in history from University of Valencia.

The Cavanilles Institute

The Cavanilles Institute (Valencia) is located on the Parque Científico de Paterna, and was established in 1998 by the University of Valencia.