UAB Experts Guide for journalists

José Rodríguez Álvarez

Group Leader at the UAB Institut of Neurosciences and CIBERNED and Visiting Professor at the Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York, USA). Jose Rodriguez-Alvarez’s laboratory main interest is, at present, the study of the mechanisms involved in the alteration of synaptic activity and learning and memory dysfunction associated to early stages in Alzheimer’s disease as a way to identify novel therapeutic targets and biomarkers for earlier diagnosis and functional recovery.

Keywords: brain, synapses, Alzheimer disease, neurodegeneration, neuronal death, neurodegenerative diseases

Dan Rodríguez García

Director of the SGR Consolidated Research Group on Immigration, Mixedness, and Social Cohesion (INMIX). His areas of research are: international migration, interethnic relations, and the social integration processes of immigrants and their descendants. In 1996 he began a pioneering line of research in Spain on “mixedness”: mixed (binational, bicultural, transnational) unions and families; social attitudes and political discourses towards mixing; the intercultural dynamics, identity processes and sense of belonging of the descendants of mixed unions. He is the PI of the funded R&D project “Social Relations and Identity Processes of Children of Mixed Unions (MIXED_YOUTH).”

Keywords: immigration, interethnic relations, interculturalism, transnationalism, social integration, diversity, identity, mixedness, intermarriage, mixed unions, second generation, racism, discrimination

Joan Enric Rodríguez Gil

He is an expert in the study of animal reproduction, with an emphasis in the field of male and in items such as sperm function, germoplasm management and conservation and animal reproduction biotechnology.

Keywords: animal reproduction, semen, conservation, biotechnology of reproduction

José Juan Rodríguez Jerez

His research areas are focused on Food Safety, especially in communication and risk management, detection of microorganisms in food, with special interest in growth mechanisms, control and detection by rapid techniques. As a continuation of this work in food safety, leads one of the reference groups in Spain on surface sanitation, or what is the same, on the formation of biofilms, detection and control, evaluation of contamination of surfaces and mechanisms of control. He is an expert in food safety communication.

Keywords: food safety, food risk, food microbiology, pathogenic microorganisms, communication in food safety, biofilms, cleaning, disinfection, cross-contamination

Lluís Rodríguez Salgado

Salgado holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Management and for the past 30 years he has worked as a consultant in the creation and acceleration of businesses and training management for entrepreneurs. As a consultant he has aided in the creation of more than 5000 business plans and is lecturer in Business Creation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and in Social Networks, Online Business Models and Online Companies at the UOC. He owns and administers two LinkedIn and Facebook groups with more than 30,000 members, including entrepreneurs and business people.

Keywords: business creation, business plan assessment, business training, growth consultant, online businesses

Jordi Roquer Gonzalez

Member of the MUSC and SSIT research groups, from which he works in the relationships between music, society and technology. Their specific fields are the new models of graphic analysis of the recorded sound, the analysis of the sound of popular music and the study of technologically mediated reception. He has coordinated several projects for the digitization of sound documents for institutions such as the National Library of Spain, the Ministry of Culture of Ecuador, the Museum of Music of Barcelona or the Library of Catalonia.

Keywords: music, music technology, recording, musical analysis, sociology of music

Antoni Rossell Mayo

He is an expert on literature and music, medieval romance literatures, Occitan language and literature medieval and contemporary.

Keywords: literature and music, medieval romance literatures, Occitan language and literature medieval and contemporary

Sara Rovira Esteva

Sinologist expert on the Chinese language, translation from the Chinese and Chinese linguistics. Currently Research Coordinator at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and East Asian Languages. Her research focuses on media accessibility, Chinese-Spanish/Catalan translation, bibliometrics and teaching Chinese as a foreign language.

Keywords: Chinese, translation from Chinese

Miquel Sabrià Leal

Expert in legionella, legionelosis and outbreaks, and in all fields of this topic, epidemiological, microbiological, clinical and therapeutic, and legislative.

Keywords: legionella, outbreak of legionelosis

Begonya Sáez Tajafuerce

Since 2001 she investigates on identity in contemporary terms and since 2005 she is member of the Research Group Body and Textuality (UAB). Her work focuses on epistemological, ethical and political feminist approaches to the body from a relational perspective and refers to gender, sexuality, and queer studies. Last publications: Representación fronteriza de la memoria histórica de las mujeres (2011), Debats: Un corpus para el cuerpo (2013) and, also, as an editor, Cuerpo, memoria y representación: Adriana Cavarero y Judith Butler en diálogo (2014), and Epistemologías feministas (2018).

Keywords: identity, body, gender, sexuality, epistemology, ethics, political, relational ontology, materialism, psychoanalysis

Josefina Sala Roca

She is the leader of the IARS research team (research group on children at social risk). This group is a multidisciplinary group with academics and professionals that focussed their research around children in care topic with the aim to contribute through research to the improvement of their protection.

Keywords: children in care, care leavers, residential care, protection system

Xavier Salla Garcia

Professor of Journalism. Director of the Obicex Foundation. Research in virtual reality, augmentation, gamification, artificial intelligence, Blockchain and applied innovative technologies. Promoter of the Official Higher Degree Cycle "Virtual worlds, augmented reality and Gamification". Technological application Technological entrepreneurship and citizen empowerment. Digital society Technological right Doctor in Communication and Legal Sciences. Lawyer in office.

Keywords: journalism, augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, gamification, artificial intelligence, innovation, blockchain, empowerment, technology, training, digital society, robots, Law, AI