UAB Experts Guide for journalists

Antoni Sanz Ruiz

Psychologist, member of the Stress and Health Research Group (GIES), has conducted basic research on the cognitive mechanisms of the biological response of stress, as well as applied research on emotional and motivational factors in the field of health (particularly of chronic diseases) and of sport (particularly of risky sports). He is currently coordinating a research group that works in the development of psychological therapies based on the practice of activities in nature. His expertise in the field of teaching focuses on the basic psychological processes (specifically motivation and emotion) and on health psychology.

Keywords: motivation, emotion, stress, risky sports, adventura sports, wilderness adventure therapy

Carlos Saura Antolín

He investigates the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate brain function, and the mechanisms underlying memory loss and neurodegeneration in neurodegenerative diseases. His group develops and apply pioneering approaches (e.g. pharmacological, gene therapy, cognitive stimulation…) and novel molecular targets as novel therapeutic strategies for the treatment of memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease and related neurological disorders. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and is an active collaborator of several funding agencies and international scientific journals and organizations.

Keywords: neuroscience, brain, cognition, memory, neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, neurodegeneration, gene therapy, transgenic models

Javier Serrano García

He is Associate Professor in the area of Medical Data Analytics. His research group activities are focused now on the development of machine learning solutions to extract value from data by considering two industrial verticals: eHealth and Automotive. He has expertise in model predictive control, speech technologies and medical data analytics. He volunteers for Academics Without Borders (AWB) and was involved in projects with Karatina University and Aga Khan University in Kenya.

Keywords: medical data analitics, deep learning, eHealth, Big Data, data mining

Massoud Sharifi Dryaz

Sociologist, associate member of GEDIME and CADIS-EHESS. He completed his PhD studies at EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences-Paris), under the direction of Professor Michel Wieviorka. His research interests lie in political sociology, social policy, social movements and the Middle East.

Keywords: political sociology, social policy, conflict studies, social movements, nationalism, Middle East, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Kurdistan

Montserrat Solanas Garcia

She has a degree in Biology, a PhD in Biological Sciences and a master's degree in Nutrition and Food. At the teaching level, she participates in subjects of Physiology and Nutrition of the degrees of Medicine, Nursing and Biomedical Sciences. Her research has always been focused on nutrition and health, for many years investigating the effects of dietary fats in breast cancer, from a clinical, morphological and molecular point of view and, more recently, studying the impact of the physical exercise, restrictive diets and certain bioactive compounds in obesity.

Keywords: Nutrition and Health, breast cancer, obesity, olive oil

Judith Solé Resina

She is a member of the People and Family Section of the Codification Commission of Catalonia and Permanent Member of the General Coding Commission of the Ministry of Justice and participates in the pre-legislative work on civil law in the Catalan and state areas. She is an expert in the right of the person (identity, civil status, disability, minority, elderly), gender, family law (marriage, stable couples, affiliation, parental authority, marriage crisis, separation, divorce, custody of children ), obligations and contracts (service contracts), real rights and right of successions. Substitute Magistrate of the TSJC.

Keywords: civil law, person, family, gender, succession, obligations, contracts, real rights

Pere Soler Palacín

Keywords: children, infectious diseases, antiinfective agents, primary immunodeficiencies

Oriol Soley Manuel

He is an expert on Financial Management, Bank management, Business Valuation, Business Management, Creation and Realization of Business Plan or Business Viability.

Keywords: financing, banking, alternative, direction, financial, business plan, business valuation

Jordi Sort Viñas

Prof. Jordi Sort is currently working as an ICREA Research Professor at UAB, where he leads the Gnm3 Group. He works on the synthesis of functional materials (electrodeposited films, lithographed structures, porous materials, bulk metallic glasses, nanocomposites, etc.) and the study of their structural, mechanical, catalytic and magnetic properties. The group develops new types of materials, whose microstructure can be precisely controlled at the nanoscale, leading to enhanced performance and functionalities, that go beyond the state-of-the-art.

Keywords: nanotechnology, new materials, films and multilayers, nanopatterned structures, porous materials, nanomechanics, magnetism, spintronics, environmental sustainability, materials for energy saving.

Bernd Springer

He is an expert in the representation of the 1st and 2nd World War in German literature and cinema, the era of Romanticism in Germany, the History of German Culture and in Intercultural Communication with the specific case of Spanish-German communication.

Keywords: war, trauma, literature, romanticism, history of german culture, intercultural communication.

María Eugenia Suárez Ojeda

Research lines devotes to the: i) Recovery of biopolymers and other value-added products using mixed cultures, ii) Nitrogen removal using two-step systems based on partial nitritation and anammox, iii) Microbial ecology and iv) Biological treatment of industrial wastewater containing toxic and recalcitrant organic compounds. Treatment is approached using either continuous granular sludge bioreactors or sequencing batch reactors with suspended biomass.

Keywords: Valorisation of wastewaters, bioplastics, anammox, microbial ecology

Remo Suppi Boldrito

His research is oriented to, on the one hand, high performance simulation of agent-based models (ABM) of social applications such as movement of people in closed environments, emergency evacuation, spread of epidemics (Dengue/Zika). This objective is achieved using high-performance computing architectures such as local and cloud clusters (private and public). On the other hand, his work focuses to Big Data Processing: computing infrastructure and algorithms for the analysis, management and visualization of large data-sets (on-line and previously stored). His research activity is developed at the SGR HPC4EAS of the UAB.

Keywords: high performance simulation, high performance computing (HPC), ABM models, big data processing