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UAB Experts Guide for journalists

This guide contains a list of researchers from different areas of knowledge who put their expertise at the disposal of the media. If you need help in finding an expert for a specific subject or contacting with one of the members of our lecturing staff, please contact our Communication Unit by phone at (+34) 935868228 or by e-mail.

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Sara Moreno

Sara Moreno Colom

She is researcher at the Centre d'Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball and at the Institut d'Estudis Treball. Her lines of research and transfer are framed within the sociological field of work, the sociology of time and the sociology of gender. Specifically, she specialises in the analysis of work, time and everyday life, with a focus on social inequalities, welfare and public policies.

 

Keywords: gender, work, care, time use, well-being, everyday life, social policy

 

Annette Mulberger

Annette Mulberger

She is an expert on the studies on the human mind (19th and 20th century). Her main research lines are psychology in Spain, mental measurement and psychological testing (1850-1950), spiritualism (spiritism) and parapsychology (1850-1930), and the history of experimental, juridical and pedagogical psychology.

 

Keywords: history of human sciences, history of psychology

Department of Basic, Developmental and Educational Psychology

Basic psychology

 

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Dafne Muntanyola

Dafne Muntanyola Saura

Her research is interdisciplinary, in the field of sociology and cognitive science. She does observation of artistic professions and dynamics of production and consumption of culture. Her work is from sociology of culture and art, gender, cognition, and applies diverse and innovative methodologies, such as social network analysis, conversational analysis,visual ethnography or interview discursive analysis.

 

Keywords: sociology of the arts, sociology of culture, cognition, video-aided ethnography, gender, social network analysis

 

Roser Nadal

Roser Nadal Alemany

Roser Nadal Alemany works in the field of Psychobiology within the area of Neuroscience. Her research deals with the mechanisms through which stress increases the vulnerability of psychopathologies such as anxiety, addictions, post-traumatic stress, depression and impulsiveness with the use of animal models. She is particularly interested in the individual differences in reactions to stress and the factors involved when resisting their negative effects. She has studied gender differences in vulnerability to stress and the long-term effects of first-time stressful experiences.

 

Keywords: stress, psychopathology, individual differences, gender differences, impulsiveness, anxiety, animal models

Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Health Sciences

 

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Researcher at the Advertising, Public Relations and Audiovisual Communication

Pere Navalles Villar

Doctor in Advertising and audiovisual communication. Extraordinary award. Specialist in Neuromarketing, conducting consumer behavior studies and validating the advertising effectiveness with an Eye track, RMfC cerebral functional magnetic resonance, GSR Galvanic Response Skin, EEG Electro Encephalography Promoter and director of the master of neuromarketing.

 

Keywords: advertising, neuromarketing, consumer behavior, advertising effectiveness, Eye track, RMfC, GSR, EEG, master neuromarketing

Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Audiovisual Communication

Audiovisual communication and advertising

 

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Xavier Navarro Acebes

Xavier Navarro Acebes

Research on degeneration and regeneration of the nervous system after injuries to the peripheral nerves and the spinal cord, and in neurodegenerative diseases. Therapeutical and neuromodulatory strategies for neural injuries and neurodegenerative diseases.

 

Keywords: nervous system, nerve regeneration, neurodegeneration, peripheral nerves, spinal cord, motoneuron, neuropathies, neuroprosthesis

Department of Cellular Biology, Physiology and Immunology

Phisiology

 

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Bernardo Nuñez

Bernardo Núñez

Director Pediatric Surgery Department at Corporació Sanitaria Parc Taulí de Sabadell (Spain). SECIPE Member (Spanish association de paediatric surgeons), and CWIG member (Chest Wall International Group). National reference on Pectus and its surgical treatment.

 

Keywords: pediatric surgery, Parc Taulí, pectus

 

Maria Carmen Nuñez

María Carmen Núñez Zorrilla

She is an expert on the protection of minors; protection of the incapacitated person or with limited ability to act; family right; obligations and contracts; guarantees of the obligation; special properties and real rights; forms of access to housing: urban leases; robotics and artificial intelligence; catalan civil law.

 

Keywords: minors, family, incapacitation, disability, contracts, obligations, guarantees, property, robotics

 

Jordi Obiols

Jordi Obiols Llandrich

He is an expert in clinical psychopathology, especially in the fields of depression, anxiety disorders and schizophrenic psychosis, both in his clinical aspects and in the risk and etiology factors.

 

Keywords: psychopathology, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, risk factors

Department of Clinical and Health Psychology

Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment

 

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Oriol Olesti Vila

Oriol Olesti Vila

Specialist in Ancient History, more specifically in History and Roman Archeology. Its main field of study is the Landscape Archaeology, the study of the settlement and exploitation patterns of a territory by an specifical historical society, as well as the social landscape that results. Social history is also an important part of its research in this regard. In recent years, it has worked about the exploitation and control of territories such as the Roman Pyrenees, coastal Catalonia, or the centuriated areas, especially in the period of the Roman conquest Specialist also in Roman land surveying, both in literary sources and in field archeology.

 

Keywords: ancient history, roman history, roman archeology, landscape archeology, sociallandscape, roman pyrenees, romanization, centuriations, roman land surveyors

Department of Antiquity and Middle Age Studies

Ancient history

 

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Pilar Orero

Pilar Orero Clavero

She is an expert on audiovisual translation, and particularly in media accessibility. She collaborates in international standardisation agencies UN ITU and ISO.

 

Keywords: human rights, accessibility, media, translation, audiovisual, standardization

Department of Translation and Interpretation & East Asian Studies

Translation and interpretation

 

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Mariana Orozco

Mariana Orozco Jutorán

She holds a PhD in Translation and Interpreting and is an expert in the following areas: general and specialised translation from English into Spanish, legal translation, translation methodology, court interpreting and research methodology in Translation and Interpreting Studies.

 

Keywords: general and specialised translation from English into Spanish, legal translation, translation methodology, court interpreting, research methodology in Translation and Interpreting Studies

Department of Translation and Interpretation & East Asian Studies

Translation and interpretation

 

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