The totanero, Pedro Martinez Gomez, CEBAS-CSIC researcher and IU-Green councilor in the city of Totana, attended in Tehran on February 4 at an event organized by the Academy of Sciences of Iran (Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology, IROST) to receive the International Research Prize "Khwarizmi International Award" invited by the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who was who gave the award in person.
Also used his stay in Iran for a series of seminars in different universities and institutions like the IROST, Tehran University, the University of Yasz or the University of Isfahan.
The "Khwarizmi International Award" is named after the famous mathematician, geographer, astrologer and Persian astronomer Al Khwarizmi S.
IX, one of the initiators of the so-called School of Elders of Baghdad, whose main contribution was to introduce the mathematical Hindu-Arabic numerals European and basic principles of algebra.
Al Khwarizmi lived under the Caliphate of al-Mamun and al-Mutasim in the golden age of Islamic science.
His work "al-Kitab al-jabr wa al-muqabalah-l-muqabal" (Compendium of calculation by complementation and balance) was translated into Latin in the twelfth century, giving rise to the term algebra it compiled a set of rules for obtain the arithmetic solutions of linear equations and quadratic functions.
Another important work in the field of arithmetic, of which only retains its Latin translation is "Algoritmi of Indorum number", which in turn was derived from the term algorithm.
Pedro Martinez received this international award for his contribution to the study of wild almond species originating in Iran and its use as a source of new genes for resistance to drought and salinity for the improvement of cultivated almond.
Pedro Martinez has been working in this field for over 12 years, first during his time as a researcher at the University of California in the U.S. and then as a researcher at the CEBAS-CSIC in Murcia.
She also received in the same act the Medal of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) for his work in promoting agricultural research in developing countries.
Pedro Martinez Gomez, born in Totana in 1970, is an Agricultural Engineer by the EPS of Cartagena (1991), Agricultural Engineering from the University of Lleida (1994), Diploma in Theology (Minor Cycle) by the International Institute of Theology Distance Pontifical University of Salamanca (1995), Master of Science in Plant Breeding (Plant Breeding) by the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies in Zaragoza (IAMZ) (1996) and PhD in Agronomy from the University of Murcia (1998).
Dr. Pedro Martinez made his doctoral thesis as a Fellow of the CEBAS CSIC working on genetic improvement of apricot.
After this period he joined the Department of Pomology, University of California-Davis for nearly three years as a Research Fellow Hired the University of California, USA.
During this period he specialized in the application of biotechnology tools in improving fruit.
Currently holds the position of Research Scientist Research Council (CSIC) within the Department of Breeding Center of Soil Science and Applied Biology Segura (CEBAS).
To date he has published a total of 150 scientific articles, 80 of them in international journals of impact, plus more than 100 papers at conferences both nationally and internationally.
It also participates in numerous research projects nationally and internationally with the U.S. (University of California-Davis), Canada (University of Guelp), Chile (Universidad de Chile), Italy (University of Padua), France (INRA Avignon) France (INRA Avignon and Bordeaux), Hungary (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Cuba (Havana University), Iran (Universities of Yazd, Isfahan, Tehran and Tabriz), Tunis (Tunisia University) and Morocco (University of Meknes , Agadir and Marrakech).
