Central Figures

    Marta Fraile Maldonado

    Marta Fraile Maldonado

    Head scientist at CSIC, and vice director of the Institute of Public Goods and Policies

    Marta Fraile is head scientist at CSIC and vice director of the Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP), where she is a permanent research fellow and where she also coordinates the Permanent Seminar of the IPP. In addition, she is a member of ...

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    Júlia Pareto Boada

    Júlia Pareto Boada

    Júlia Pareto Boada holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Universitat de Barcelona and is a researcher at the AI&Democracy Chair (STG-EUI) and the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics, CSIC-UPC.

    She is a researcher at the AI&Democracy Chair (STG-EUI) of the Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, and at the Institut de Robotics and Industrial Informatics, CSIC-UPC, where she works on the development of ...

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    Dr. Miquel Casas

    Dr. Miquel Casas

    Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and director of the SJD MIND Schools programme at the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona.

    Dr Miquel Casas has focused his professional career on the study and treatment of addictions, dual pathology, neurodevelopmental disorders and personality disorders throughout the life cycle. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the Universitat ...

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    Ana Escorza Santos

    Ana Escorza Santos

    PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the KU Leuven and postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

    She earned a degree in Physics from the University of Zaragoza in 2013, with a master’s degree in 2015 and PhD in 2020 in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the KU Leuven in Belgium, through a dual programme between the KU Leuven and the Université ...

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    Michael Abdul-Masih

    Michael Abdul-Masih

    PhD in Astrophysics from the KU Leuven and postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

    He completed his undergraduate and master’s studies in the United States and then moved to Belgium to pursue his PhD studies at KU Leuven with a thesis focusing on the observational characterisation of massive stars. During his PhD he developed the ...

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    Maite Mendioroz

    Maite Mendioroz

    Director of Navarrobiomed – Miguel Servet Foundation and principal investigator of the Neuroepigenetics Unit

    Maite graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Navarra (1996), specialising in neurology (MIR) at the Donostia Hospital. She completed her doctoral thesis at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and continued her training at the ...

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    Rubèn López Vales

    Rubèn López Vales

    Full professor of the Department of Cellular Biology, Physiology and Immunology and researcher at the Institute of Neurosciences of the UAB

    Rubèn graduated in Biology from the Universitat de Girona in 2001 and obtained a doctorate in Neuroscience from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2005. He was a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University in Canada (2006-2009). In 2009 ...

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    Jordi Riera

    Jordi Riera

    Scientific director of CaixaProinfanciaFull professor of Education (Social Pedagogy Department) of the Ramon Llull University in the School of Psychology, Education and Sport Sciences, Blanquerna-URL

    Full professor of Education (Social Pedagogy Department) of the Ramon Llull University in the School of Psychology, Education and Sport Sciences Blanquerna-URL. He has been president of the Catalan Association of Pedagogues of Catalonia and the ...

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    Oliver Binks

    Oliver Binks

    BSc in Ecology, PhD from the University of Edinburgh and postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF)

    Oliver Binks graduated with an honours degree in Ecology and completed his PhD at the School of GeoSciences of the University of Edinburgh in 2016, on the ecophysiology of tropical rainforests. He then spent five years at the Australian National ...

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