UAB Experts Guide for journalists

Pilar Orero Clavero

She is an expert on audiovisual translation, and particularly in media accessibility. She collaborates in international standardisation agencies UN ITU and ISO.

Keywords: human rights, accessibility, media, translation, audiovisual, standardization

Mariana Orozco Jutorán

She holds a PhD in Translation and Interpreting and is an expert in the following areas: general and specialised translation from English into Spanish, legal translation, translation methodology, court interpreting and research methodology in Translation and Interpreting Studies.

Keywords: general and specialised translation from English into Spanish, legal translation, translation methodology, court interpreting, research methodology in Translation and Interpreting Studies

Marc Orriols Llonch

Egyptologist. His main line of research is gender studies in ancient Egypt. His main research topic is sexuality and sexual relations. In the context of gender studies, he also works on topics such as ages (childs, adults, elderly), and the initiation rituals of puberty, as circumcision.

Keywords: egyptology, ancient Egypt, genre studies, genre, sexual intercourse, ages, chilhood, elderly, rituals, initiatory rituals, homosexuality, prostitution, copulation, sex

Daniel Ortega Ortigoza

He is specialist in domestic violence exerted from children to their parents, called violence toward parents. More than a decade as an educator in the field of protection for children and adolescents at risk and juvenile justice. He is Social Educator, Master's Degree in Social and Educational Interventions and in Criminology and Legal-Criminal Sociology, and Doctor in Education from the UB. As a result of his thesis he has participated in projects and researches related to this new phenomenon.

Keywords: children at risk, juvenile justice, violence toward parents, child and adolescent protection system, families, social education

David Owen

His area of specialisation and research is English novelistic fiction of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, particularly epistolary fiction, minor women writers and the early works of the English novelist Jane Austen. He also researches juvenilia fiction, particularly of the nineteenth century, the literary representations of war and the propagandistic uses to which canonical literature is put in periods of war.

Keywords: eighteenth-century novelistic fiction, nineteenth-century novelistic fiction, epistolary fiction, literary juvenilia, Jane Austen

Francesc Padrós Bover

Fish Vet, specialized in fish health and also in health management in other aquatic animals. Wide experience in aquaculture as well in disease diagnostic of wild fish and ornamental and aquarium fish.

Keywords: fish, health, icthiopathology, aquatic animals, diseases

Marta Padrós Castells

Expert in family, life cycle, family diversity and cultural diversity. Since 2007, she has developed psychoeducational intervention projects in cultural diversity contexts, specializing in the Roma community; she has provided advice to City Councils, Social Services and School Centers on cultural and family diversity; psychological accompaniments to families and children to face the daily challenges; individual, couples and groups psychological accompaniments in the construction of emotional relationships; and workshops for young people and professionals on family and relational diversity. She works from a systemic and cultural perspective, with a gender vision.

Keywords: family diversity, relational diversity, roma community, roma, gypsies, cultural diversity, accompaniment in parenting, transsexuality, lgtbi, monomaternal, homomaternal, monopaternal, homopaternal

Oscar Palacios Bonilla

An expert in the field of Bioinorganic Chemistry, he works in the design and development of metallic compounds for biomedical applications (cancer treatment, metallic supplements, etc.) and in the study of several metalloproteins, specially metallothioneins. An expert in mass spectrometry and various spectroscopic techniques, an important part of his research is based on the study of the interactions between metals and metallic compounds with different types of biomolecules (proteins, nucleic acids, etc.).

Keywords: 

metalloproteins, metallics compounds, complexes, metallothioneins, mass spectrometry, spectroscopy, anticancer

Rosa María Palencia Villa

Journalist and PhD in Audiovisual Communication. Founding member of the Associació de Dones Periodistes de Catalunya. Her lines of research revolve around gender studies in different audiovisual genres. Among others: women's cinema; documentary film made by women. Gender studies and audiovisual representation. She has also researched on audiovisual dubbing. Professor of Audiovisual Fiction Script and Audiovisual Narrative. Professor of feminist documentary in the Master of Gender and Communication at the UAB.

Keywords: 

women and cinema, audiovisual dubbing, documentary film, feminist film theory, audiovisual script

David Parés Martínez

He is specialist in General Surgery in Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol and Secretary of School of Medicine. His areas of expertise are: Colorectal Surgery, Proctology/Anorectal disease, Research and Innovation in Surgery, and Health Quality and Safety.

Keywords: Digestive surgery, Colorectal Surgery, Anorectal disease, Research, Innovation, Healthcare Quality

Ernesto M. Pascual Bueno

He is an expert in political parties, specifically in the selection of leaders and candidates. He has also developed his work in comparative political systems, political analysis and electoral strategies. He is also a specialist in political thought and State theory.

Keywords: political parties, internal democracy, electoral systems, constitutional law, political systems, political analysis, electoral strategy, political thought, State theory

Ana Paula Candiota

Keywords: brain tumor, therapy response, magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, nosologic images, pattern recognition