UAB Experts Guide for journalists

Xavier Ballart Hernández

Expert on Public Administration and public services / policy evaluation. Within Public Administration studies, lately he has done research on Public Service Motivation, a pro-social type of motivation. As a professor of Political Science he is expert on democracy and politics In the beginning of his career he had worked on autonomy and federalism.

Keywords: public admnistration, public service motivation, public policy evaluation, performance

Mònica Balltondre Pla

Mònica Balltondre is researcher at the Center for the History of Science (CEHIC-UAB). She teaches undergraduate courses and in the master’s degree in History of Science (UAB-UB). In the field of the history of the human sciences, her research focuses on female subjectivities constructed by scientific theories of the past. Among other topics, she has worked on spiritual medieval women and on spiritualism and spiritism at the turn of the twentieth century, mainly in Spain.

Keywords: history of human sciences, history of psychology, gender and history of science, spiritualism, mysticism, women's sexuality social construction

Antoni Barbadilla Prados

Antoni Barbadilla's field is Population Genetics and Bioinformatics and he is director of the Bioinformatics of Genome Diversity research group. All new mutation contributing to the adaptation to the environment of an individual expands throughout the species and leaves a molecular print on the genome. Through theoretical population genetic models and statistical methods, the group analyses and interprets genetic variation at genome scale and develops the bioinformatics tools needed for the cataloguing and representation of genetic diversity in an increasing number of species, including humans. He also works on technology transfer and bioinformatics platforms for omics research.

Keywords: genetics, heredity, evolution, genomics, population genetics, natural selection, bioinformatics, recombination, genetic variations, genome navigators

Jordi Barbé García

Member of the Molecular Microbiology SGR Group. He is working in the molecular basis of the bacterial cell activity. His major goal is the identification of virulence factors determining the pathogenic capacity of bacteria to develop alternative strategies to antibiotics. Also, they are working to isolate specific viruses attacking bacteria to be used against bacterial infections.

Keywords: Bacterial pathogenesis, vaccines, antibiotic resistance, phage therapy

Joan Anton Barceló Álvarez

Expert in Archaeology and Prehistory, he is specialized in the application of computational techniques and technology to the reconstruction and interpretation of the past. He has deep expertise in virtual reality methods, digital archaeology, Geographic Information Systems for historical research, and the development and application of quantitative methods and artificial intelligence techniques in humanities and the social sciences.

Keywords: archaeology, prehistory, digital archaeology, digital heritage, digital humanities, virtual reality, geographic information systems, statistics, quantification, artificial intelligence

Francesc Bars Cortina

Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry.

Keywords: Iwasawa theory, L-functions, small genus curves, modular curves, smooth plane curves, automorphisms, Drinfeld modules

Anna Bassols Teixidó

The main topic of the research group are biomarkers for animal science and veterinary medicine. Acute phase proteins. Enzymatic and immunological assays. Proteomics and metabolomics for biomarker search. Service of Veterinary Clinical Biochemistry at UAB.

Keywords: biomarker, animal science, veterinary medicine, acute phase proteins, proteomics, metabolomics, clinical biochemistry

Jordina Belmonte Soler

Jordina Belmonte is an expert in the diversity of pollen, fungal spores and allergens found in the atmosphere, as well as their annual and interannual dynamics and the factors affecting their presence, amount and transport (Aerobiology). She is adviser to allergists, pneumologists and primary care physicians, as well as to managers and technicians in charge of public health, plant health and natural and urban green areas. She also works with media channels on the pollination and sporulation of species of interest (native, cultivated, invasive, allergen, etc.) and coordinates the Aerobiology Information Point (PIA).

Keywords: aerobiology, allergies, allergens, fungi spores, palynology, pollen, biological air quality, atmospheric transport, public health, plant health

Sílvia Blanch Gelabert

PhD in psychology of education, degree in clinical psychology, training of teachers of the Early Childhood Education degree at the UAB, Coordinator of the ERIFE research team (team of research on childhood, family, and education) and SINTE at the UAB. Continuous training on education, childhood and family from the team ICE UAB; team supervising and training for education and families from the BES team (Barcelona Space Monitoring). Teaches also in postgraduate, master's and doctoral programs in education.

Keywords: teacher, early childhood education, family, playgroups, nursery, preeschool, education, service learning, slp, internship, practitioner

Cristina Blasi Casagran

In the last years she has conducted extensive research in the field of privacy and data protection law. She defended her Ph.D on Global Data Protection Standards in the Field of Law Enforcement in June 2015 at the EUI. The piece was published one year later as a monograph under the Routledge Editorial. Blasi has also been involved in many projects through her position as researcher at the UAB. From 2012 to 2016 she was an active participant of a project studying the role and powers of agencies within the AFSJ. She is currently part of two ongoing projects on i) privacy and security and ii) EU and international cooperation in the fight of human trafficking and migrant smuggling.

Keywords: privacy, data protection, migrant smuggling, surveillance law, EU law, human rights

Encarna Bodelón González

She is an expert on gender and law, on gender violence, and on women's rights.

Keywords: gender and law, gender violence, women's rights

Vicent Borràs Català

His main lines of research can be found in the field of sociology of work, consumption and gender. His years of research have led him to study a diversity of issues. Within the field of work and gender sociology, he has focused on relating the inequalities of men and women in the workplace, in the broadest sense of the term, encompassing paid work, household work and caring for others. Specifically, he has focused on sexual harassment in the workplace, balancing family and professional life, dependency and caring for others, as well as time understood as a social construction.

Keywords: work, gender, consumption, masculinities, time