UAB Experts Guide for journalists

Antoni Mas Ponce

He is an expert in the field of the effects of global change on Mediterranean river systems.

Keywords: 

global change, Mediterranean river systems, conservation, basins, land use and land cover change, climatic change

Anna Matamala

She is the main researcher of TransMedia Catalonia, a research group working on media accessibility and audiovisual translation. TransMedia Catalonia has researched access services such as subtitling or audio description, with special emphasis on user reception studies. Group members include translators, linguists, philologists, psychologists and sinologists that can bring expert knowledge in different areas.

Keywords: media accessibility, audiovisual translation

Vicenç Méndez López

He is an expert on stochastic processes applied to movement ecology and population dynamics.

Keywords: biological invasions, population extinctions, mechanistic analysis of animal behavior

José Miguel Lizcano

His research focusses on the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in cancer proliferation. He studies the intracellular signaling pathways ruled by new protein kinases. His group aims to tackle cancer, by performing basic, preclinical and clinical development of new antitumoral drugs. He has published more than 55 scientific articles, with more than 3,000 citations, and he actively collaborates with international research groups and scientific institutions.

Keywords: cancer, cellular signaling, protein kinases, autophagy, preclinical and clinical development, antitumoral drug

Carme Miralles-Guasch

She is an expert in everyday mobility, active transport, cities and metropolitan regions, and gender.

Keywords: mobilitu, city, metropolitan areas, walking, transports, gender

Juan Antonio Módenes Cabrerizo

He is an expert on the interrelation between demographic behavior and housing demand; international analysis of housing systems; socio-demographic analysis of access to and stability in housing and the impact of residential insecurity on family life.

Keywords: housing demography, urban demography, housing demand forecasting

Jenny Moix Queraltó

Psychologist expert in the human mind. Member of the Stress and Health Research Group. Study how thoughts affect the body, specifically its influence on pain. His research is also focused on how to reduce stress and increase happiness through Mindfulness techniques. At an informative level, he has treated various topics through his books and articles such as: forgiveness, gratitude, suffering, emotions, dreams, ...

Keywords: mind, positive psychology, mindfulness, stress, chronic pain, health psychology, fibromyalgia

José Luis Molina González

He is an Economic Anthropologist interested in the emergence of socioeconomic structures, like migrant enclaves and transnational fields. Molina is interested in mixed method approaches, combining ethnography and personal network analysis. He is specialized in Southeast Europe, and Romania in particular. Currently, he is the president of the Research Ethics Committee of the UAB, and co-editor of the REDES-Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales.

Keywords: personal networks, social network analysis, economic anthropology, transnationalism, migration, Romania

Oscar Molina Romo

He is an expert on employment relations and sociology of work. His research focuses on three areas. First, employment relations and collective bargaining systems from a comparative perspective, paying particular attention to the evolution of social dialogue and policy concertation. It has also investigated the crisis of trade unions and their revitalization strategies, as well as the use of conflict and strikes. The second area of research is the labor market, and in particular, the processes of segmentation by age, sex or educational level. Finally, another area of research is that of comparative capitalisms, through which he analyzes how the institutional context explains economic performance.

Keywords: industrial relations, collective bargaining, trade unions, employer organisations, social pacts, policy concertation, social dialogue, conflict, strike, labour market, varieties of capitalism

Miquel Molist Montañá

He is an expert on Neolithic, archeology, Middle East, Euphrates valley, Palmira and Barcelona prehistory.

Keywords: Neolithic, archeology, Middle East, Euphrates valley, Palmira, Barcelona prehistory

Xavier Montalbán Gairín

MD and PhD in Neuroimmunology. He’s chair of the Department of Neurology-Neuroimmunology and director of the Multiple Sclerosis Centre of Catalonia (CEMCAT) at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona, as well as the chief of the Neuroimmunology Research Group at Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR). For the past twenty-five years, Dr. Montalban has been in the inception phases and on steering committees of many clinical trials related to multiple sclerosis. He has authored over 500 original and revision publications in international peer-reviewed journals plus several book chapters.

Keywords: neurology, neuroimmunology, Multiple Sclerosis, sclerosis,clinical neurology, neurosciences, immunology

Màrius Montón Macián

Doctor in computer science, businessman with experience in R+D+i in several companies and research centers. Experience in the design of embedded systems, internert of things (IoT) and long-range communication networks LPWAN. He has also researched on virtual platforms and embedded systems modeling.

Keywords: embedded systems, IoT, Internet of Things, microelectronics, virtual platforms, LPWAN