Judith Butler, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the UAB on May 4, 2026, at the recommendation of the School of Translation and Interpretation. Her contributions to the fields of philosophy and feminist and queer theory are among the most influential of our time on...
Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, founder and volunteer director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (Bethlehem University), gave the conference "The global ecocide and what to do about it: case study from Palestine" on October 17 at the UAB, invited by ICTA-UAB.
The Biological Anthropology Research Group of the UAB has studied the burials of infants from the Iberian site of Ullastret in a pioneering comprehensive research of the site. The study, in collaboration with the MAC-Ullastret, rules out sex or...
First Spanish woman selected as an astronaut candidate by the European Space Agency. She is a researcher at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) and visited the UAB on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the MELiSSA laboratory.
Joan C. Tronto, emeritus professor of the City University of New York and the University of Minnesota, is one of the greatest exponents of the ethics of care and democracy. Numerous disciplines draw on her feminist reflections to carry out critical analyses of the social, political and economic...
Kevin Anderson is professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester and visiting professor at Uppsala University (Sweden). Formerly he held the position of Zennström professor (in Uppsala) and was director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (UK). He engages widely with...
Head of research at the Australian National Science Agency (CSIRO) AND executive director of the Global Carbon Project (GCP), organisation made up of dozens of international scientists from more than 90 institutions that has been providing detailed information on natural and anthropogenic carbon dioxide sources and sinks...
Plant physiologist and senior scientist at NASA's Exploration Research and Technology Directorate at Kennedy Space Center, Raymond Wheeler has led the advanced life support and plant-based research groups at the US space agency.
Diego Blas, distinguished researcher "Beatriz Galindo" from the UAB Department of Physics and IFAE proposes to use the small deviations of the orbits of binary systems, such as the Earth and the Moon, as a natural detector of gravitational waves. This would measure a...
The prestigious virologist and immunologist at the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has had a great scientific and informative relevance on the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection and the vaccines that have been developed during the pandemic.
