UAB Experts Guide for journalists

Josep Salvat i Sangrà

He is a Doctorate in Communication from the University of Vic. Graduate in Journalism by UPF and Diploma in Geography and History from the UB. Independent communication consultant and corporate communication and marketing consultant for companies and organizations such as Scoot, Homim, TotalSafePack, Haier, Knauf Insulation, Avancar, BrandCelona and Fundación Comparte, among others. He has been PR Supervisor in Panasonic and Samsung between 1999 and 2006. He is the PR manager and professor of several subjects of the Master in Communication Management at ESIC Business School.

Keywords: public relations, corporate communication, crisis communication, events, political communication, public affairs, consultant, entrepreneur, business, expert, doctorate, master's degree, journalists

Josep Maria Sanahuja Gavaldà

Pedagogue and psychologist. He leads the Center for Studies and Research for an Inclusive Society (CERSIN). His research has focused on analyzing the exclusion-inclusion binomial in education, specific educational needs, functional diversity and teacher training. He coordinates the Master in Support for Educational and Social Inclusion. He studies the inclusive processes with people with autism spectrum disorders.

Keywords: inclusion, disability, educational needs, teacher training, autism

Antoni Sánchez Ferrer

Coordinator of the Composting Research Group at the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Antoni Sánchez has participated in different research projects in agreement with other public institutions and private companies in the field of organic waste treatment, specifically in the fields of composting and anaerobic digestion. His current line of research focuses on obtaining new products from waste as part of a circular economy and sustainability framework.

Keywords: organic waste, compost, biogas, separate collection, circular economy, environmental impact, sustainability

Miguel Ángel Sánchez Huete

The scope is the Financial and Tax Law in particular issues on prevention and fight against tax fraud, tax penalties and interposed companies. The tax treatment of new economic forms as well as tax policies and gender have also been analyzed.

Keywords: tax fraud, avoidance, evasion, fiscal sanctions, interposed partnerships, collaborative economy, social responsibility, gender

Judith Sánchez Manubens

Head of the Pediatric Rheumatology Unit of the Parc Taulí Hospital in Sabadell (Barcelona). Teacher of Pediatrics in the degree of Medicine in the UAB and collaborator in the master's degree in Pediatric Rheumatology in the University of Barcelona. Doctor in medicine, specialist in pediatrics and master in pediatric rheumatology, she has specialized in pediatric vasculitis, especially in Kawasaki disease. He leads the multicenter working group on this disease and participates in several projects on the disease at the state and European level. Other areas of expertise are juvenile idiopathic arthritis, pediatric lupus and autoinflammatory diseases.

Keywords: pediatric rheumatology, Kawasaki disease, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, pediatric lupus, pediatrics

Josep Santaló Pedro

His research interest have been focused on the genetic characterization and freezing of preimplantation mammalian embryos, oocyte maturation in vitro and transgenic animal production. He is currently focused on nuclear reprogramming and derivation of embryonic stem cells in mouse and humans. He is also interested on Bioethics, especially on the public perception of Genetics and genome editing technologies. In this discipline, he is member of the Bioethics and Law Observatory of the Universitat de Barcelona and member of the Ethics Committee for Animal and Human Research of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Keywords: nuclear reprogramming, embryonic stem cells, genetics and bioethics

Laura Santamaria Guinot

Her research has focused on issues related to media, intertextuality and intercultural studies. As a teacher, she has dedicated herself to the teaching of specialized translation and specifically to translation for the media and the translation of legal texts. She has worked as a professional translator for different publishers and for Televisió de Catalunya.

Keywords: translation, audiovisual translation, intercultural studies, ideology, intertextuality, legal translation

Antoni Sanz Ruiz

Psychologist, member of the Stress and Health Research Group (GIES), has conducted basic research on the cognitive mechanisms of the biological response of stress, as well as applied research on emotional and motivational factors in the field of health (particularly of chronic diseases) and of sport (particularly of risky sports). He is currently coordinating a research group that works in the development of psychological therapies based on the practice of activities in nature. His expertise in the field of teaching focuses on the basic psychological processes (specifically motivation and emotion) and on health psychology.

Keywords: motivation, emotion, stress, risky sports, adventura sports, wilderness adventure therapy

Carlos Saura Antolín

He investigates the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate brain function, and the mechanisms underlying memory loss and neurodegeneration in neurodegenerative diseases. His group develops and apply pioneering approaches (e.g. pharmacological, gene therapy, cognitive stimulation…) and novel molecular targets as novel therapeutic strategies for the treatment of memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease and related neurological disorders. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and is an active collaborator of several funding agencies and international scientific journals and organizations.

Keywords: neuroscience, brain, cognition, memory, neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, neurodegeneration, gene therapy, transgenic models

Javier Serrano García

He is Associate Professor in the area of Medical Data Analytics. His research group activities are focused now on the development of machine learning solutions to extract value from data by considering two industrial verticals: eHealth and Automotive. He has expertise in model predictive control, speech technologies and medical data analytics. He volunteers for Academics Without Borders (AWB) and was involved in projects with Karatina University and Aga Khan University in Kenya.

Keywords: medical data analitics, deep learning, eHealth, Big Data, data mining

Massoud Sharifi Dryaz

Sociologist, associate member of GEDIME and CADIS-EHESS. He completed his PhD studies at EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences-Paris), under the direction of Professor Michel Wieviorka. His research interests lie in political sociology, social policy, social movements and the Middle East.

Keywords: political sociology, social policy, conflict studies, social movements, nationalism, Middle East, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Kurdistan

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