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Illas Riera, Francesc

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Francesc Illas (1954) obtained his chemistry degree and Ph. D at the Universitat de Barcelona where he became Full Professor of Physical Chemistry in 1992. He visited different research centres (IBM Almaden Research Center and Los Alamos National Laboratory)  and has been invited professor at Universita’ della Calabria  and Université Pierre et Marie Curie. He received the Distinguished Professor Mention for the Research Promotion awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2001, the Bruker Physical Chemistry Research Award of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry in 2004 and the ICREA Academia Award in 2009 and again in 2015. In 2009 was elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he joined the Editorial Board of Surface Science and of Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. In 2017 he was elected member of Academia Europeae. He published over 600 papers which received more than 22000 citations (WoS h-index = 73; Google Scholar h-index = 80). 

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García-Carpintero Sánchez-Miguel, Manuel

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Manuel García-Carpintero was born in Daimiel (Spain) in 1957. He got his “Licenciatura” ( ≈ BA) at the University of Barcelona (1979) and his PhD also at the University of Barcelona (1988), where he has taught since 1984, after teaching at secondary schools between 1979 and 1984. He visited the CSLI, Stanford University, for one academic year (1990-91), and for shorter periods the philosophy departments at MIT (1992), NYU (1997), Oxford (1998), and Lisbon (2011, 2012). He was a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Edinburgh, 2001), and he has been appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Lisbon (2013-2020). He was awarded a “Distinció de Recerca” for senior researchers by the Catalan Government between 2002 and 2008, and in 2008 (2009-2013), 2013 (2014-2018) and 2018 (2019-2023) the prize “ICREA Acadèmia” for excellence in research, also funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

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Escalera Guerrero, Sergio

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Sergio Escalera obtained the 2008 best Thesis award at UAB. He leads the Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis Group. He is Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Universitat de Barcelona. He is an adjunct professor at UOC, Aalborg University, and Dalhousie University. He is member of the Computer Vision Center. He is series editor of The Springer Series on Challenges in Machine Learning. He is vice-president of ChaLearn Challenges in Machine Learning, leading ChaLearn Looking at People events. He is co-creator of Codalab open source platform for challenges organization. He is Fellow of the ELLIS European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems, and Chair of IAPR TC-12: Multimedia and visual information systems. He has different patents and registered models. He has published more than 300 research papers. He received a CVPR best paper award nominee and a CVPR outstanding reviewer award. He has been General co-Chair of FG20.

Apr 09
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Cascante Serratosa, Marta

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Marta Cascante is Full Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at University of Barcelona (UB) and leader of the Integrative Systems Biology, Metabolomics and Cancer team. She holds a degree in chemistry and a PhD in biochemistry from UB, where she was distinguished with the Outstanding Graduate and Thesis Awards. She has authored over 270 publications, two of them cited in Stryer biochemistry textbook and supervised over 30 PhDs. She is partner of three European translational research projects (H2020) in the field of systems medicine and metabolomics and coordinator of several Spanish funded research projects. She is member of the editorial advisory boards of Metabolomics and BMC Syst. Biol. She served in the scientific committee of numerous international conferences. Marta Cascante has been distinguished with Icrea Academia Prize 2010 & 2015, the Narcís Monturiol Medal 2015 and the Antoni Caparros Prize 2016 for scientific and knowledge transfer merits

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Corominas Guiu, Montserrat

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After studying Biology at the University of Barcelona (UB), I did my doctoral thesis at the Department of Physiology of the School of Medicine of the UB. Articles from the eighties on cancer motivated my interest in this subject and led me to postdoctoral stays in the United States, New York University (New York, NY) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge), MA). I joined the UB as a professor in 1992. I am currently Full Professor of Genetics in the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, and member of the Institute of Biomedicine of the UB (IBUB). I coordinate and teach undergraduate and master’s classes and lead the Gene Expression Regulation laboratory within the Developmental Biology and Genomics group (http://www.ub.edu/developmentalbiology/web/). Since 2017 I am the president of the Catalan Society of Biology (SCB), affiliated to the Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC).

Apr 09
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Casademunt Viader, Jaume

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Jaume Casademunt (1962) got a degree in Physics in 1985 with honors, and a PhD in Physics in 1988, as MEC fellow, at the University of Barcelona. In 1989-91 got a Fulbright fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, and in 1991-93 was a research associate at Supercomputer C. Res. I. (Tallahassee). He became associate professor at the UB in 1993, and full professor in 2017. He has been invited as visitor at I. Curie (Paris), Max Planck PKS I. (Dresden), and PBT/TU Berlin. In 2016 he was appointed International Visiting Chair at the Lab of Excellence CelTisPhyBio (I. Curie/ESPCI). His contributions span the area of nonequilibrium physics, recently focused in biophysics. He is recognized for pioneering a nonlinear physics approach to biological problems. He has led international projects and served in international funding agencies and top journals (APS outstanding referee). Member of the Editorial Board of the new open access journal ‘Biophysica’.

Apr 09
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Escera, Carles

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Carles Escera graduated in Psychology at University of Barcelona in 1987, and after his PhD in 1993, he gained postdoctoral experience at the University of Helsinki (Finland) in 1993, 1994, 1996, 1999. He became Associate Professor in 1997, and Full Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in 2010. He was visiting professor at the University of Bremen (Germany) and Fellow of the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst (Germany) in 2004 and 2005. He has published over 130 papers in major journals in Psychology and Neurosciences (over 6500 citations; h index = 43). He has been the principal investigator of more than 30 research projects, including one from the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 program, and several from the FP4, FP5 and FP7, and the coordinator of an ERANET.NEURON project of the EU and a Marie Slodowska-Curie action of FP7. Currently, he is involved in an ERC Advanced-Grant in Archaeology (ARTSOUNDSCAPES) as the leader of two research lines (psychoacoustics and neuroscience).

Apr 09
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Consiglio, Antonella

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Antonella Consiglio obtained her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Pathology at the HSR-TIGET (Milan) with Prof. Bordignon, and additional training at Gene Therapy Center of Lausanne and Vectors Technology Laboratory at Cell Genesys (Foster City, CA). She did her post-doctoral studies at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, under the direction of a pioneer of the field of adult neurogenesis, Prof. F.H.Gage. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Pathology & Experimental Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science of the University of Barcelona, and leader of the Stem cell and Neurodegeneration team at the IDIBELL, Bellvitge University Hospital. In 2013 she was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) StG by the EU. She is a recipient of the 2019 City of Barcelona award to the life sciences. Her group studies the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease to get to a cure. 

Apr 09
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Bartres Faz, David

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Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona. Former recipient of a ‘Ramon y Cajal’ excellence research fellowship from the Spanish Government. He conducted a 2-year postdoctoral stage at the Institute National de la Santé et de la Récherche Médicale (INSERM), France, as well as two stages at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. He has been Principal Investigator of 7 consecutive National Competitive Research projects and PI for the Barcelona center of a FP7 and a H2020 projects. PI of the Barcelona Brain Health Initiative (https://bbhi.cat/) and coordinator of the Barcelona Brain Stimulation Lab (http://www.ub.edu/bbslab/). He is also co-chair of the ‘Reserve, Resilience & Protective Factors’ Professional International Area of the Alzheimer’s International Association (ISTAART). He has published over 140 scientific articles and supervised 10 PhD thesis. h index: Web of Science: 38

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Araus Ortega, Jose Luis

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Full Professor of Plant Physiology, at the University of Barcelona (1993) and Professor ICREA Academia (in 2013 and 2018). Research stages at the University of Georgia (US), the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (Syria), the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (UAE), the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT, Mexico), etc. He was a National Seconded Expert at the Directorate-General for Research of the EU (Brussels), Principal Scientist at the Global Maize CIMMYT. He is and has been PI of several international projects and co-author on near 300 publications in SCI and SSCI journals, with an h-index (Google Scholar) of 79, and the recipient (2008) of the Friendship Award (China). Responsibilities in international and national research evaluation agencies.

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