UAB Experts Guide for journalists

Sònia Casillas Viladerrams

Member of the SGR group Genomics, Bioinformatics and Evolution. Her research revolves around the development and application of bioinformatic tools for the representation and analysis of genetic diversity. She is currently interested in the study of human genetic adaptation. Convinced of the need to bring scientific advances to society, she leads the teaching innovation and outreach project Adapt yourself, the education for global justice project Genographic and the citizen science activity Code the Fly.

Keywords: 

population genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, adaptation, natural selection, genetic variation, evolutionary history, genome browser

Tona Castell

Teacher training in the use of technology in the learning processes of children in early childhood education (0-6 years old).

Keywords: infant education, early childhood education, technology

Carmina CastellanoTejedor

PhD in Psychology and General Health Psychologist, specialized in psycho-oncology, chronic diseases, forensic psychology, neuropsychology. Mediator in the family and private law field. Expert in cognitive-behavioral intervention, motivational interview, brief strategic therapy, third generation techniques and positive psychology.

Keywords: health psychology, psycho-oncology, chronic diseases, clinical and health sciences research, new technologies applied to health, positive psychology, mediation

David Castells Quintana

inequality, development, urban economics, applied economics

Keywords: inequality, development, urban economics, applied economics

Manuel Castillo Zambudio

He teaches undergraduate students in the areas of Food Science and Technology, Dairy Science and Technology and Food Processing Engineering, as well as Masters and Ph.D. students in the Food Processing area through the development of new optical sensor technologies with near term commercial application. His current research program focuses on the development of cutting-edge Optical Sensor Technologies for Inline Food Process Monitoring and Control. Different inline optical sensor technologies using light backscatter and fluorescence are currently under development.

Keywords: food, sensors, process control, optics, spectrometry

Andrés Chamarro Lusar

He is an expert into psychological processes underlying engagement into risky behaviours: playing online videogames (MMORPG and MOBA), using online social networks (as Facebook and Instagram) and playing lifestyle sports.

Keywords: risk sports, adventure sports, mobile addiction, addiction to video games, addiction to social networks

Miguel Chillón Rodríguez

Miguel Chillón studies the biological pathways and mechanisms altered in memory loss caused by Alzheimer's disease and researches brain mechanisms involved in the decline of cognitive functions during the natural ageing process. He is expert in gene therapy strategies for multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease affecting the nervous system; as well as in the generation and development of more selective and less immunogenic therapy vectors.

Keywords: Alzheimer's, dementia, brain, gene therapy, viral vectors, nervous system, memory, multiple sclerosis, autoimmune disease, Kloth

Josep Cid Moliné

Expert in criminal law and criminology, his lines of research are the Spanish punitive system, the desistance of delinquency and the reentry policies. Coordinate the group of research “Desistance and Reentry Policies” that it has driven several researches on the process of desistance of crime (adults and young), the effects of the imprisonment, the role of the families in the development of processes of desistance and recidivism, and in tools to improve the social reintegration of the people that go out of prison. Teach courses in the Degree of Criminology and Master of Criminology and Criminal Justice System (UPF-UAB-UdG-UOC).

Keywords: criminology, criminal law, punitive system, penology, prison, desistance, resettlement

Montserrat Clua i Fainé

PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, her areas of research are Nationalism and the construction of ethnic and political identities in Western nation-states. She has worked on the role of anthropology in the study of nationalism (Extraordinary Thesis Prize, 2008) and has done ethnographic research in Catalonia on Catalan nationalism, the construction of discourses of inclusion and exclusion, and the independentist contemporary Catalan demands. She also researched on other elements of Catalan identity and in the History of Anthropology in Catalonia and Spain. Member of the research group AHCISP (UAB), is founder of the research group Ciutadanies at ICA (Catalan Institute of Anthropology).

Keywords: anthropology, nationalism, Catalonia, ethnic identity, racism, xenophobia, independence, Catalan process, history of anthropology, Spain

Roger Colobrán Oriol

He combines his activity in the fields of Immunology and Genetics. Specifically, he is an expert in the genetic basis of Primary Immunodeficiencies and other immunomediated diseases. He is also an expert in the immunological and genetic bases of autoimmune diseases, especially the autoimmune thyroid diseases. Dr. Colobran is responsible for the Immunogenetics Area of the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital (HUVH) and is an associate professor at the UAB, where he teaches Immunology.

Keywords: immunology, genetics, primary immunodeficiencies, autoimmunity, rare diseases, next generation sequencing, genome, mutation, genetic variation, thymus, central tolerance

Esteve Corbera Elizalde

Keywords:  climate change, biodiversity, governance, impacts, wellbeing, developing countries

Cristina Correro Iglesias

Specialist in children's literature (0-8 years) in paper and digital. She teaches children's literature in the Degree in Early Childhood Education and in the online Master's Degree in Books and Children's and Young People's Literature. She has been involved in several international and national research projects as well as in the development of MOOCs and online training in her field of research.

Keywords: children's literature, children's publishing, children's books, online education, MOOC, internationalization, literary education, teacher's training education, early childhood education