UAB Experts Guide for journalists

Albert Guisasola Canudas

He is part of the "GENOCOV" research group. GENOCOV research targets are biological treatment and recovery of liquid and gaseous effluents. Albert's current research objective is to convert wastewater (urban and industrial) into a source of resource and energy in the new framework of the circular economy. In particular, his expertise is the treatment and recovery of phosphorus and in the production of hydrogen from wastewater.

Keywords: wastewater, hydrogen, biological phosphorus removal, EBPR, struvite, bioelectrochemical systems, MFC, MEC, modelling

David Gutiérrez Colominas

Expert in equality and non-discrimination in the workplace, specialized in discrimination on the grounds of disability. Specifically, he developed his doctoral thesis on the employer's obligation to make reasonable adjustments in the workplace.

Keywords: labour and social security law, no discrimination, disability, reasonable accommodation

Felicity Hand Cranhan

Postcolonial literary studies especially the Indian Ocean area. She studies the literature and culture of South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, India and Mauritius from various angles including gender, class and ethnicity. She also works on Indian cinema, both commercial and art films.

Keywords: indian ocean, postcolonial, literature, culture, cinema, ethnicity, gender, identity, class

Bernat Hernández

Researcher at CEAC (Center for the Study of Colonial America). Three main lines of work: economic history, the historiography of Hispanism and the cultural history of early modern America. The economic history, from its private, fiscal and financial side; in particular, exchange fairs and currency in everyday life. Hispanism, specifically in USA. The cultural history of viceregal Latin America: discourses and practices of evangelization, literary dimensions of material culture, social and economic keys of Ibero-American scholasticism.

Keywords: modern history, conquest and colonization, Bartolomé de las Casas, indigenism, scholasticism, hispanism, evangelization, fiscal & financial history, Ibero-America, currency, applied and public history

Jordi Herrera Joancomarti

Expert in cryptography and more specifically in its application to cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoins, and blockchain technology. His research objectives are focus on increase the the security and privacy properties of cryptocurrencies. He also works on the design of cryptographic protocols and applications that guarantee high levels of security and privacy even though there is no relationship of trust between participants.

Keywords: cryptography, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, bitcoins, security, privacy

Elisa Heymann

Her research is focused on software security, secure programing techniques, and cybersecurity of critical infrastructure, especially ports and maritime freight shipping. She participates as a senior scientist in the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Heymann is involved in performing vulnerability assessments of large pieces of software (for example Google Chrome, Wireshark, HTCondor, and Port Terminal Operating Systems), and in building tools to make the vulnerability assessment process more automated.

Keywords: software security, cybersecurity, cybersecurity of critical infrastructure, cyber-attacks, port cybersecurity, cybersecurity of maritime shipping, secure programming, vulnerability assessment, tools

Amparo Hurtado Albir

She leads PACTE research group, founded in 1997. PACTE carried out an experimental research on how translation competence and its acquisition work. PACTE is currently researching into the establishment of competence levels in translation, in order to make progress in the creation of a European framework (similar to the one related to languages, the CEFR). The ultimate purpose of PACTE’s research is to improve the curricular design and the assessment in translator training. PACTE has been organizing didTRAD (an international forum for trainers and researchers in the field of translation and interpreting) every two years since 2012.

Keywords: translation, translation competences, didactics of translation, experimental research, competence levels in translation, assessment in translation

Josep Antoni Iglesias Fonseca

e is an expert in the history of writing, palaeography, manuscripts, documents, codices, diplomas, libraries, historical bookstores, bibliophilia, documentary and bibliographic heritage, incunabula, printing.

Keywords: writing, manuscritps, codices, documents, bookstores, documentary heritage, bibliograhic heritage, incunabula, printing

Gabriel Izard Granados

Professor on Distribution and Marketing Management. He knows very well the industrial sector of the consumer goods as well as the needs and defense of consumers. Works on issues of compliance in the application of standards on industrial issues and printing systems. He worked in Long Live training applications. He writes reguarly about economy at the magazine Cataluña Económica and Diari de Terrassa.

Keywords: economics, marketing, retail business, distribution channels, economy, commerce, commercial distribution, consumers, continuing education

María Jesús Izquierdo Benito

She is an expert in social inequality of women, marxist-psychoanalytic perspective of social relations and the social component of feelings.

Keywords: social inequality, sociological theory, emotions, feelings and society

Oscar Jané Checa

He works on topics related to the construction of collective identities, the first person writings, the archeology of the modern and contemporary eras, the construction of borders (theory of borders, state borders, regional borders, etc.). He is a specialist in the history of France, Spain and Catalonia. He also knows issues related to the Pyrenees.

Keywords: borders, identities, France, Catalonia, Spain, Europe, Pyrenees, personal writings, modern State, archeology of the conflict

David Jiménez Jiménez

Expert in the field of nanoelectronic devices targeting digital, analog, and radio-frequency applications. Currently he is taking part of the european project Graphene Flagship focusing on the applications in electronics of bidimensional materials, such as graphene and related materials.

Keywords: nanoelectronic devices, field-effect transistor, compact modeling, bidimensional materials, van der Waals heterostructures, graphene