Francisco de Paula De Urmeneta

Francisco de Paula de Urmeneta Rubira earned a Bachelor’s degree in Geoinformation and Geomatics Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Currently supporting the Geomatics unit at CTTC, he focuses on developing software solutions to streamline research workflows.

During his studies, Francisco de Paula worked at the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC), where he honed his skills in creating task automation tools, data analysis software, and managing GNSS positioning systems for the Geodesy service.

Internationally, Francisco de Paula served as a research assistant in Planetary Science at Constructor University in Bremen, Germany. As part of the EU-funded Earth-Server2 project, he developed software for processing images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s (MRO) Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) experiment and implemented algorithms to detect and classify ice in the processed images.

Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Vision across multiple universities —Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), and Universitat de Barcelona (UB)—Francisco de Paula continues to broaden his expertise.