Ignacio Morgado, third Catalan academic of the Spanish Academy of Psychology
Ignacio Morgado, emeritus professor of Psychobiology at the Institute of Neuroscience and founding dean of the UAB Faculty of Psychology, was elected member of the Academy of Psychology of Spain (Asociación de Psicologia de España). He is the third academic from Catalonia to receive this recognition, after Ramón Bayés and María Teresa Anguera.
On Thursday 14 November, Morgado will deliver his acceptance speech in Madrid, in an official ceremony that will mark his formal admission to the prestigious institution. His academic and research career is extensive and stands out in the field of cognitive neuroscience and psychobiology. Currently, he continues to lecture and teach in courses and master's degrees at the UAB and throughout Spain and Latin America.
Morgado has devoted much of his career to experimental research, with stays at internationally renowned centres such as the Ruhr University (Germany), the University of Oxford (UK), and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In addition, he is the author of more than one hundred scientific papers in psychobiology and cognitive neuroscience.
His contribution to scientific dissemination is also remarkable, with books such as Emociones e inteligencia social: una alianza entre los sentimientos y la razón (Mina, 2006) and Como percibimos el mundo: una aproximación a la mente y los sentidos (Ariel, 2012). He also collaborates periodically in the media, such as in the newspaper El País, where he has his own column called Materia Gris, as well as in other publications with El Mundo and La Vanguardia. He has received several awards for his academic and dissemination work, and has been scientific advisor to the publishing house Ariel and Cosmocaixa Barcelona. He was recently named Honorary Member of the Iberoamerican Network of Cognitive Neuroscience.
With his incorporation to the Academy of Psychology of Spain, Ignacio Morgado reinforces his figure as one of the leading figures in the field of psychobiology and cognitive neuroscience, both locally and internationally.