UAB Experts Guide for journalists

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

Santiago Suriñach Cornet

He is an expert in the thermal analysis of materials.

Keywords: differential scannig calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetry analysis, dilatometric analysis

Jordi Surrallés Calonge

His research interests are genetics and therapy of cancer-prone rare genetic syndromes with defective DNA repair with special focus in Fanconi anemia. He also investigates the genetics of familiar cancer syndromes and performs therapeutic research including gene and cell therapy approaches and cell-based drug screening platforms. A long term goal is to understand the mechanisms that maintain genome stability and protect us from disease, cancer, and ageing and to translate this knowledge to develop novel therapeutic and diagnostic strategies.

Keywords: genomic instability, Fanconi anemia, BRCA1, BRCA2, DNA repair, mutation, genetic predisposition to cancer, rare diseases, diagnosis, therapy

Marta Tafalla González

Philosopher, specialized in environmental aesthetics, environmental ethics, animal ethics, human rights.

Keywords: landscape, garden, natural beauty, nature, biodiversity, environmental catastrophe, animal, non-human person, animal rights, human rights

Laura Talens Peiró

Her major research motivation is to understand the metabolism of materials and energy in socioeconomic systems and the environmental impacts they generate throughout their life cycle. She is an expert in the field of circular economics and environmental tools such as ecodesign, material flow analysis, life cycle analysis and exergy analysis. These tools have been applied mainly to the study of metal metabolism, the analysis of digital devices and equipment, and in the last years, textiles.

Keywords: 

circular economy, material metabolism, fundamental materials, ecodesign, life cycle analysis, batteries, textiles, digital devices