UAB Experts Guide for journalists

Isabel Fernández Alonso

Director of the Daniel Jones Research Group in Communication Structure and Policies. The aim of this group is to contribute to the academic analysis, both critical and comparative, of media systems in the Western European area, with emphasis on the countries of Mediterranean Europe and the Spanish and Catalan media systems. The group studies the strategies and behaviours of the economic, political and social actors that coexist within these systems, as well as the interrelations that are forged among them. The group members consider that media systems, as they are shaped, contribute to the replication of dominant structures of power and economics.

Keywords: public broadcasting service, regulators, DTT, press subsidies

José Antonio Fernández Amor

Expert in financial and tax law, international taxation and the funding systems of autonomous communities. He works in the legal sector of the Department of Public Expenditure, both in the regulation of expenditure (Budget Law) and in income tax (Tax Law, Public Credit Law). He also focuses on the fiscal consequences of economic actions affecting other jurisdictions, with special attention put on EU taxation. He studies the political divisions of Spain as well as the distribution of capacities to establish tax revenue figures on behalf of the Autonomous Communities in Spain.

Keywords: tax, budget, tax power

Jordi Fernández Castro

Keywords: stress, coping, resilience, psychosocial factors, occupational health, engagement, burnout, longitudinal designs, perception of control, emotional intelligence, self-efficacy

Ana Mar Fernández Pasarín

She is an expert in EU institutional system, in European policies and in consular diplomacy.

Keywords: EU institutional system, European policies, consular diplomacy, European Union

Emilio Fernández Peña

He is an expert on the Olympic Games and the media, social networking websites and sport, digital interactiva communication and all which is related with sport and communication in general.

Keywords: Olympic Games, sport communication, interactive communication

Ignasi Fernández Terricabras

Expert on Early Modern History (16th-18th centuries), History of the Catholic Church and Popes, The Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation Relationship between Church and State, and Political and cultural history from 16th to 17th centuries.

Keywords: early modern history (16th-18th centuries), history of the catholic church and popes, the protestant reformation, relationship between Church and State, political and cultural history (16th-18th centuries)

Ana Fernández Viso

Expert in the following two areas: 1/ Media structure, systems and public policies, in particular policies relating to independent audiovisual and digital communication regulatory authorities, governance and financing of public media, institutional advertising and media subsidies. 2/ Strategic communication for social change and development, in particular, the design of media policies for the common good and the design and evaluation of communication strategies from civil society to promote inclusive, participatory and democratic agendas for social change. In this field, she has been working since 2021 on ageism towards older people.

Keywords: 

media policies, audiovisual regulation, independent authorities, governance and funding of public media, institutional advertising and media subsidies, communication and social change, ageism

Lluís Ferrer Caubet

He works on veterinary and comparative dermatology, infections and cutaneous parasitoses in animals, canine leishmaniasis, demodicosis atypical dermatitis, genetics of skin diseases, and cutaneous microbiome in health and disease.

Keywords: leishmaniasis, demodicosis, atopic dermatitis in animals, genetics of skin diseases, cutaneous microbiota

Alexander Fidora

He is an expert on inter-religious dialogue and philosophy of religion. Medieval thought, the editing and study of philosophical and theological texts from the Iberian Peninsula: From the Toledan School of Translators to Ramon Llull. In particular, cultural contacts between Judaism, Islam and Christianity: the translation of Arabic texts into Latin, especially those relating to the theory of science, metaphysics, theology and religion; the reception, interpretation and transformation of philosophical and theological translations from Latin into by Jewish authors; the Christian discovery of the Talmud; religious polemics in the Middle Ages.

Keywords: medieval philosopy; history of interreligious dialogue, Ramon Llull

Lluís Font Guiteras

Expert in interactions between ionising radiation and matter and its applications, in particular in very high energy gamma-ray astronomy using Cherenkov telescopes and in radon dosimetry. He forms part of the international projects MAGIC and CTA, and is co-director of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC). From 2004-2014 he was Vice President of the International Nuclear Track Society (INTS).

Keywords: Cherenkov telescopes, MAGIC, CTA, astrophysics, environmental radioactivity, radon dosimetry

Marc Furió Bruno

Paleontologist, he is an expert in fossils of insectivores (hedgehogs, shrews and moles) and their evolution in relation to the climatic changes of the last 20 million years. His research group studies the relationship between the environmental factors and the causes of extinction and speciation in vertebrates. He is specially interested in the processes that led to mass extinctions in the past to compare them with the current environmental crisis, and how do they affect the welfare of the present human societies. He teaches classes in the degree of Geology and he is academic coordinator of the Master in Paleobiology and Fossil Record, a degree shared between the UAB and the UB.

Keywords: fossils, small mammals, insectivores, extinction, environmental crisis, climatic change, biodiversity loss, social welfare

Xavier Gabarrell Durany

His research work on the Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering Department, and the Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA-UAB) at the UAB has been focusing on the field industrial ecology, environmental audits, waste management, and life cicle analysis applied to products, processes and systems. He is the coordinator of the research group Sustainability and Environmental Prevention (Sostenipra) and guarantor of the Exellence Unit Maria de Maeztu Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals.

Keywords: LCA, urban agriculture, fertilecity