Associate Professor at the Departament de Física de la Matèria Condensada,
Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona (Spain)
2011 – 2016 “Ramon y Cajal” researcher, University of Barcelona, Spain.
2008 – 2011 Post-doc: University of Barcelona, Spain
2006 – 2008 Post-doc: Florida State University, USA
2003 – 2006 Ph.D.: University of Ulm, Germany
2002 – 2003 Predoctoral Marie Curie fellowship
B.S.: University of Napoli, Italy
Modesto Orozco was born in Barcelona in 1962, obtained BS in Chemistry (1985), MS in Biochemistry (1988) and Ph.D. in Chemistry (1990) at the University of Barcelona. Assistant Professor (1989), Professor (1991) and Full Professor (2001) at the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Barcelona. He was visiting professor at Yale University 1991-1993. Since 2004 he is Group Leader at the Institut for Research in Biomedicine, since 2005 Director of the Life Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, from 2006-2013 was the director of the Joint IRB-BSC Program on Computational Biology, and since 2014 director of the Joint BSC-CRG-IRB Program on Computational Biology. Director Integrative Research Nodes. IRB Barcelona.
Josep M. Poblet graduated in Chemistry in 1979 from the University of Barcelona. At the same university, he obtained his PhD degree in 1983 under the supervision of Professor Enric Canadell. After a postdoctoral stay with Professor Marc Bénard at the University of Strasbourg, he became Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) in 1986. Since 2001, he is Professor of Physical Chemistry at this university and has been Director of the Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Department for more than14 years. He did a research stay at Emory University in 2004 and he is coauthor of more than 260 scientific publications including papers in Nature, Nature Chemistry, JACS, etc. He was awarded with the 2012 Bruker Physical Chemistry Prize of the RSEQ and was named Distinguished Professor of the URV in 2014. He was awarded with the ICREA ACADEMIA award for research excellence in 2015.
I graduated in Chemistry at the University of Girona in 1996. Then I started my PhD studies at UdG on bioinorganic and organometallic redox chemistry of copper and I obtained my PhD in 2001. I performed two pre-doctoral research-stays at Univ. Basel with Prof. Zuberbühler and at Stanford Univ. with Prof. Stack. Then, I performed my Post-doctoral studies (2002-2004) at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (CSIC-Spain). I returned to UdG in 2005 with a Juan de la Cierva contract and became an independent group leader in Nov 2006. I’ve been awarded with an ERC-Starting Grant in 2011 and an ERC-Proof of Concept Grant in 2015. Moreover, I obtained three consecutive projects from MINECO in 2013, 2016 and 2019. I’ve been awarded with three ICREA-Acadèmia prizes in 2010, 2015 and 2020. In 2018 I was awarded with the Premio a la Excelencia Investigadora RSEQ 2018. My work has been published in 130 articles (H = 45).
Dr. Albert Poater studied chemistry at the University of Girona (UdG), where he graduated in 2001. After experimental work with Prof. Antoni Llobet, the computational PhD thesis was defended in 2006, supervised by Profs. Miquel Duran and Miquel Solà, being focused on the catalysis of Ru-compounds, activation of O2 and CH/CC bonds.
In 2007 a postdoc started with Prof. Luigi Cavallo at the Università di Salerno deepened into the olefin metathesis. In 2010 he joined the Institut Català de Recerca de l’Aigua as Ramón y Cajal, and 2 years later transferred to UdG, in parallel with stays at KAUST of Saudi Arabia (over 8 years abroad). Since 2019, he holds a permanent position as Associate Professor in UdG, and serves as director of the Master MACMoM. He was awarded with the ICREA Academia Prize 2019.
Dr. Poater is co-author of over 190 papers, highlighting 1 Nat. Chem., 14 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 7 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 6 ACS Catal. In total they count with 5900 citations, with h = 44.
Dr. Felix Ritort got his PhD in 1991 in spin glasses. Since then he has made contributions to the field of disordered systems and nonequilibrium physics. In 2002 he made a turn in his career working in single-molecule biophysics to investigate energy processes in the molecular world. Ritort’s group is recognized worldwide as leader in applying the finest and most powerful methods to extract accurate quantitative information about thermodynamics and kinetics of molecular interactions in nucleic acids and proteins. He has been awarded several prizes for his research: Distinció de la Generalitat de Catalunya in 2001 for his research during the years 1991-2000; ICREA Academia Awards 2008,2013,2018 for his research as scholar at the University of Barcelona; Premio Bruker 2013 from the Sociedad de Biofísica de España for his contributions to molecular biophysics research in Spain. He is chair of the Division of Physics for Life Sciences of the European Physical Society.
Ph.D obtained in 2003 at Universitat de Barcelona under the supervision of prof. Pilar Bayer. Associate professor at UPC since 2005; full professor since 2018. Long research stays at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Bombay), McGill University (Montréal), Humboldt University (Berlin), Aristotle University (Salonika). ERC Consolidator Grant 2016-2022.
Tere M-Seara (PhD. Mathematics, U. Barcelona, 1991) is full professor at the Dpt. de matemàtiques of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She is the leader of the UPC Dynamical Systems group, formed by more than 20 researchers (https://dynamicalsystems.upc.edu/en) working on theoretical and computer aspects of finite and infinite Dynamical Systems, with focus on Celestial Mechanics and mathematical Neuroscience. She has supervised 9 PhD. students. In 2015, she received the first Barcelona Dynamical Systems Prize and in the fall of 2018 she hold an Eisenbud Professorship (Simons Foundation) at MSRI (U. Berkeley).
She belongs to the editorial board of Nonlinearity, SIADS, NOdea; SEMA-SIMAI Springer series and has published about 60 papers including articles in the journals: Adv. Math., Comm. Math. Phys, Comm. Pure and Applied Math., Inventiones Mathematicae, J. of Differential Equations, J. of Nonlinear Science, Memoirs of the A.M.S.
Eva Miranda is a Full professor at UPC, chercheur afflilié at Observatoire de Paris and member of CRM and IMTech. She is director of the Lab of Geometry and Dynamical Systems. She has been recipient of Marie Curie and Juan de la Cierva grants and honorary member at CSIC-ICMAT. Miranda has been invited professor at U. de Toulouse, MIT, U.de Paris 6 and 7, Observatoire de Paris and MSRI. Since 2018 she is member of the Governing Board of BGSMath and since 2020 she is member of the Board of Trustees at Institut Henri Poincaré (Paris) as personnalité extérieure. She has published over 50 articles including Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4), Adv. Math., J. Math. Pures Appl. (9) and Comm. Math. Phys. She has supervised 9 Ph.D. theses. In 2017 she was awarded a Chaire d’Excellence of the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris. Miranda has been plenary speaker in the top workshops in her field. She is invited speaker at the 8th European Congress of Mathematicians.
Cristina Linares (Eivissa, 1976) is Full professor at the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Barcelona since 2020 and Researcher at the Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio). After earned her PhD in 2006 at the UB, she did different research stages at renowned international centres such as the University of Santa Cruz (California, USA), Centre d’Oceanologie de Marseille (France), ARC Centre for Excellence of Coral Reef studies (Townsville, Australia) and the University of Hawaii (Manoa, USA). During this period, she was funded by several competitive fellows from the Spanish Government. Finally, in 2012 with Ramon y Cajal fellow and since 2017 as Associate Professor, she set up her own research group working in the ecology and conservation of marine ecosystems, where she has supervised 8 PhD students. Her research gorup is currently composed of 4 postdocs, 2 PhD students and a number of MSc and undergrad students