UAB Experts Guide for journalists

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

Joaquín Gairín Sallán

Professor of EGB, Social Graduate, Psychologist and Pedagogue. International Consultant, directs the consolidated research group EDO, is the president of the RedAGE International Network and coordinates projects on educational change and social development and community. Its main lines of research are: organizational development, knowledge management, evaluation of programs and institutions (including detection of needs, impact assessment and self-evaluation processes); educational, social and community development; university organization and management; and integral security in the educational centers.

Keywords: organizational development, knowledge management, program evaluation, institution evaluation, community development, safe and healthy vocational training centers

Carolina Gala Durán

She an expert on Labour Law, Social Security Law, no discrimination between men and women and workplace harrassment.

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Daniel Gamper Sachse

Keywords: social diversity, secularism, freedom of conscience, toleration, free speech, religion

Núria Garcia Quera

Her research focuses on linguistic archaeology through the study of opaque toponyms, considered linguistic fossils. With training in Catalan Philology and Linguistics, and a PhD in Geography, she works with an interdisciplinary and cognitive method that statistically relates toponymic segments to landscape features (including data obtained through GIS). These innovative results have helped to reconsider previous interpretations and have been published in the journal Language Sciences.

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toponymy, etymological methodology, statistics, geography, cognitive approach, cognates

Elena Garrido Gaitán

Her expertise field is dedicated to Applied Psychology in the Forensic and Criminal context, assessing in forensic evaluations and in legal processes. She is a Criminal Psychology teacher of the Criminology Degree (UAB), the Master in Legal Psychology (UAB) and other Postgraduate and Master studies related to her specialty. She also leads the Astraia Research Group in Criminal and Forensic Psychology, promoting new lines of research in our university in this field.

Keywords: psychology, criminology, criminal psychology, forensic psychology

Anna Gil Bardají

Arabist, expert in Arabic language and in translation from Arabic to Catalan and Spanish.  She is a member of MIRAS research group (Mediation and Interpreting, Research in the Social Settings). Among her lines of research there is the analysis of orientalist discourse in translation, the translation from Arabic into Catalan and Castilian, and Public Service Interpreting.

Keywords: arabic, translation from Arabic

Antonio Gil Moreno

He has a strong commitment towards the improvement and the innovation of the health system. He is the Head of the Gynaecology Service of the Vall Hebron Hospital since 2013 and Principal Investigator of the Biomedical Research Group in Gynaecology at Vall d`Hebron Research Institute from 2014. His intervention in clinical and translational research began in 1997. He has participated in more than 30 research projects, 10 as the principal investigator in the last 5 years. He has published more than 100 articles reviewed by experts in international journals, as well as many articles in national journals, 23 book chapters and 4 patents.

Keywords: translational and clinical research, endometrial and ovarian cancer, biomarkers, therapy, murine models

Lydia Giménez Llort

She is an expert in behavioral neuroscience, aging, Alzheimer's disease and pain in cognitive impairment.

Keywords: behavioral neuroscience, aging, Alzheimer's disease and pain in cognitive impairment

Xavier Gimeno Soria

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Jesus Giraldo Arjonilla

He coordinates the SGR group "Laboratory of Molecular Neuropharmacology and Bioinformatics", where he investigates the signal transduction mechanisms of the neurotransmitter receptors responsible for neurological and psychiatric disorders. His objective is to unravel the complexity of the interactions between receptors, lipids, ions and transducer proteins, which take place in the cell membrane and ultimately determine the health of a person. To this end, he applies computational methods -molecular dynamics, mathematical modeling and artificial intelligence- in order to generate knowledge for the design of safer and more precise drugs.

Keywords: GPCR, allosteric modulators, biased agonism, partial agonists, inverse agonists, schizophrenia, Parkinson's, molecular dynamics, mathematical modeling, drug design, big data analysis

Roser Girós Calpe

BA Social and Cultural Anthropology and Pedagogy, MA in Educational Research (2016) and project management (2010). Currently she is a PhD candidate focused on the study of minority children plural socialisation. She develops a multi-situate ethnographic approach in heritage language and culture learning settings, as faith congregations and community based-schools. She is part of EMIGRA research group (CER-Migrations) collaborating as researcher in TRANSEMIGRA, IDCol, and StoryS European project (Rec.777257) in which she had also the role of National Coordinator.

Keywords: community-based schools, migrant capital, transnationalism, diaspora studies, school-family discontinuity