Senior researchers

Marta Borrueco Carmona

Psychology
Marta.Borrueco@uab.cat

PhD in Psychology of Health and Physical Activity (2022), Graduated in Psychology, Master in Sports and Physical Activity Psychology and Master in Research in Psychology Applied to Health Sciences at the UAB. Lecturer at the UAB Department of Basic, Developmental and Educational Psychology. She is member of the UAB Sport and Exercise Psychology Research Group (GEPE). Her research interests are focused on the experiences of coaches in the course of their work, the role of families in the context of sport and women's sport.

Lluís Capdevila Ortis

Psychology
Profile UAB Research Portal - Lluis.Capdevila@uab.cat

Professor of Health and Sports Psychology. Coordinator of the Official Master's Degree in Research in Sports and Physical Activity Psychology (UAB-INEFC). Head of the UAB Laboratory of Sports Psychology. Coordinator of the consolidated research group Lifestyle, Sports and Health 2021SGR00806 (2005-).

Laura Carbonero

Education
Laura.Carbonero@uab.cat

PhD from the UAB, Physical Education teacher and graduate in Pedagogy. She is a lecturer at the UAB Department of Musical, Plastic and Body Expression Education. Her research field is Physical Education and Sports as a tool for social and educational inclusion. She collaborates with of the Social and Educational Research Group on Physical Activity and Sport (GISEAFE) at INEFC-Barcelona and has participated in various studies on gender, health, values ​​and cooperation.

Antoni Castelló Tarrida

Psychology
Profile UAB Research Portal - Toni.Castello@uab.cat

Doctor in Psychology. Senior lecturer of the UAB Department of Basic, Developmental and Educational Psychology and coordinator of the UAB Psychology doctorate program. Member of the Research Group on Complex Communicative Processes in Contextualized Situations.

Andrés Chamarro Lusar

Psychology
Profile UAB Research Portal - Andres.Chamarro@uab.cat

Associate lecturer at the UAB Department of Basic, Developmental and Educational Psychology. Member of the Stress and Health Research Group - GIES

María Pilar Cid Leal

Documentation
Profile UAB Research Portal - Pilar.Cid@uab.cat

PhD in Communication Sciences. Senior lecturer at UAB, teaches subjects in various degrees and faculties. Since 1990, she has participated in twelve funded R&D projects. She regularly publishes papers on Documentation, Translation and Teaching Innovation. She is a member of the Tradumàtica group and co-director of the digital magazine Tradumàtica, specialized in translation technologies. Current lines of research: Documentation applied to translation and recovery and access to information.

Ramón Cladellas Pros

Psychology
Profile UAB Research Portal - Ramon.Cladellas@uab.cat

Associate lecturer at the UAB Department of Basic, Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Montserrat Farell Ferrer

Economics
Profile UAB Research Portal - Montse.Farell@uab.cat

Senior lecturer at the UAB Department of Economics and Economic History.

Emilio Fernández Peña

Communication
Profile UAB Research Portal - Emilio.Fernandez@uab.cat

Doctor in Communication by the Basque Country University with Outstanding Award (2001). Director of the UAB Olympic Studies Centre since 2009. He has collaborated in the field of social networks with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and he has worked on the design of the television exhibition of the IOC Olympic Museum in Lausanne (2014). He is member of the international working group that designs the educational offer of the new International Olympic Academy. He is a regular invited lecturer to the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is member of the Research Group on Sport Social Sciences - GRECSE (2021SGR00204).

Carlos Guallarte Nuez

Economics
Profile UAB Research Portal - Carlos.Guallarte@uab.cat

Senior lecturer of the UAB Department of Business and director of the UAB University-Business program.

José Maria Losilla Vidal

Psychology
Profile UAB Research Portal - JosepMaria.Losilla@uab.cat

Doctor in Psychology. Specialist in quality assessment and data analysis. Senior lecturer of Research Methodology (Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Health Sciences, UAB). Member of the consolidated research group Lifestyle, Sports and Health, of the Innovation Network of New Technologies in Mental Health (TECSAM). Principal investigator of a funded R+D+I project on the synthesis of scientific evidence of complex interventions.

Virginia Luzón Fernández

Communication
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Virginia.Luzon@uab.cat

PhD in Audiovisual Communication and Advertising. She is a member of the UAB Sport Research Institute. Her area of expertise in the field of sports is the portrayal of female athletes in the audiovisual world. She has participated in various research projects commissioned by public institutions.

Luis Fernando Morales Morante

Communication
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Fernando.Morales@uab.cat

Doctor from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2010) and Bachelor of Communication Sciences from the University of Lima-Peru. Lecturer in the UAB Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Audiovisual Communication. His main lines of research focus on audiovisual narrative and languages, cultural studies, corporate values and audiovisual editing. He has written 4 books and more than 40 peer-reviewed indexed articles. He is member of the Research Group on Sport Social Sciences - GRECSE (2021SGR00204).

Francesc Muñoz Ramírez

Urban planning
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Franc.Munoz@uab.cat

Doctor in Urban Geography (2004) and senior lecturer at the UAB Department of Geography. He also teaches architecture and urban planning in European programs. His professional experience includes research and consulting in various fields, such as urban demography and strategic planning, and specific advice on cultural and urban projects. He has published numerous articles in architecture magazines and urban studios and has participated in working groups. He is member of the Research Group on Sport Social Sciences - GRECSE (2021SGR00204).

Pere Ortín Ángel

Economics
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Pere.Ortin@uab.cat

Professor of the UAB Department of Business and coordinator of the Interuniversity Master in Management, Organization and Business Economics (MMOBE)

Judith Panadés Martí

Economics
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Judith.Panadez@uab.cat

PhD in Economics and Bachelor of Economic and Business Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Senior lecturer at the UAB Department of Economics and Economic History. She was coordinator of the University Master's Degree in Sports Management

Eva Parrado Romero

Psychology
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Eva.Parrado@uab.cat

PhD in Psychology and Master in Psychology of physical activity and sport. Member of the consolidated research group Lifestyle, Sports and Health and the NAT (Nature-Activity-Therapy) team, focused on new therapeutic approaches, combining cognitive behavioral therapy with sports and leisure activities in the natural environment. Since 2005, she has participated in a total of 12 competitive interdisciplinary research projects in the fields of psychology, animal psychophysiology and electronic engineering, applied to health.  

José Manuel Pérez Tornero

Journalism
Profile at UAB Research Portal - JosepManuel.Perez@uab.cat

Doctor of Communication Sciences and Bachelor of Hispanic Philology. Professor at the UAB Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences and Director of the Communication and Education Cabinet. Elected in 2020 President of the Board of Directors of RTVE (Radio Televisión Española)

Maria Prat Grau

Education
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Maria.Prat@uab.cat

PhD in Pedagogy and Bachelor of Physical Education. She has worked on national and international competitive projects, as a principal investigator and participant, respectively. The projects focused on values in physical activity and sport, gender and diversity in the field of education. She is currently participating in research on values in youth sports, bullying and the gender perspective in the media and teacher training. She is a member of the Research Group on Sport Social Sciences - GRECSE (2021SGR00204).

Natividad Ramajo Hernández

Communication
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Natividad.Ramajo@uab.cat

Senior lecturer of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the UAB. Graduated in Information Sciences, Master in Interactive Communication, Multimedia and Telecommunications and PhD in Information Sciences from the UAB. Her research focuses on the representation of gender in online media, the portrayal of adolescents on television during prime time, policies on multimedia and new information and communication technologies. She is member of the Research Group on Sport Social Sciences - GRECSE (2021SGR00204).

Yago Ramis Laloux

Psychology
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Yago.Ramis@uab.cat

Doctor and Master in Research in Health and Sports Psychology and Bachelor of Psychology from the UAB. He is coordinator of the Research Group in Social Sciences in Sport (GRECSE) and the UAB Sport Psychology Research Group (GEPE) and Vice-president of Research at the European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC). His areas of expertise include sports psychology and in particular, the role of agents and social entourage in supporting athletes at initiation ages and alongside their sport career. He has participated in various research projects at national and international level, supervised 8 doctoral theses, promoted collaboration agreements with sports entities and has published more than 50 articles in the main academic journals in the field of sports. Currently, he is leading the Thematic Network on Healthy Dual Career HEDUCA(R) and co-directs the R+D project HENAC – Healthy Entourage along the Sport Career (PID2022-138242OB-I00).

Antoni Sanz Ruíz

Psychology
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Antonio.Sanz@uab.cat

Doctor in Psychology and Master in Psychology Human Learning. Member of the consolidated research group GIES (Stress and Health Research Group) and coordinator of the NAT (Nature-Activity-Therapy) team, focused on new therapeutic approaches, combining cognitive-behavioral therapy with sports and leisure activities in the natural environment. Since 1992, he has participated in basic and applied research in the fields of human psychology and psychophysiology applied to health and sport.

Carles Sola Belda

Economics
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Carles.Sola@uab.cat

Senior lecturer at the UAB Department of Business. Currently Associate Professor of Management at City University of New York-College on Staten Island.

Santiago Tejedor Calvo

Journalism
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Santiado.Tejedor@uab.cat

Doctor in Journalism and Communication Sciences from the UAB. Senior lecturer of the UAB Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences and member of the management team of the Communication and Education Cabinet.

Miquel Torregrossa Álvarez

Psychology
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Miquel.Torregrossa@uab.cat

Doctor in Psychology and Master in Sports Psychology. Senior researcher and coordinator of the UAB Sport and Physical Activity Psychology Research Group (GEPE) within the Research Group of Sport Social Sciences - GRECSE (2021SGR00204). He has extensive experience in research and transfer in psychology of sport and exercise, with a special interest in sports career, career transitions and dual career. He has participated in more than 26 projects, standing out the coordination of 2 national R+D projects and 5 Erasmus+ Sport projects at national level. He has supervised 19 doctoral theses in psychology and sports science. He has published more than 100 articles in indexed journals and more than 20 books and chapters. Currently he codirects the R+D Project HENAC - Healthy Environment throughout Athletic Careers (PID2022-138242OB-I00).

Anna Tous Rovirosa

Journalism
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Anna.Tous@uab.cat

Graduate and PhD in Journalism from the UAB, and senior lecturer in the UAB Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences. Member of the Sports Research Institute. Her area of expertise is focused on the analysis of Catalan, Spanish, European and United States television fiction. Recipient of a José Castillejo Scholarship to research sports fiction at East Anglia University (United Kingdom). She is member of the Research Group on Sport Social Scienctes - GRECSE (2021SGR00204).

Francesc Trillas Jané

Economics
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Francesc.Trillas@uab.cat

Graduate in Philosophy and Letters (History) and Economic Sciences, and Master in Applied Economics from the UAB. Doctor in Economics from the European University Institute of Florence. After the Doctorate, Research Fellow of the London Business School. Since 2002, teaches at the UAB, where he is currently an associate lecturer in the Department of Applied Economics. In 2008 he was Visiting Scholar at the University of California (Berkeley). In recent years he has taught a course in Football Economics to the FUAB Study Abroad program, and for 3 years he has co-taught a subject in Sports Economics in the Master of Sports Management from the Cruyff Institute and the UAB.

Ana Ullod Pujol

Communication
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Ana.Ullod@uab.cat

Senior lecturer at the UAB Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising.

Carme Viladrich Segués

Psychology
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Carme.Viladrich@uab.cat

Senior lecturer of the UAB Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Health Sciences and coordinator of the consolidated Research Group Sports and Physical Activity (GEPE) within the Research Group on Sport Social Sciences - GRECSE (2021SGR00204).

Jaume Vives Brosa

Psychology
Profile at UAB Research Portal - Jaume.Vives@uab.cat

Doctor in psychology and associate lecturer in the area of behavioral science methodology at the UAB. He participates as a specialist in research methods in various research projects related to health at the UAB and the Catalan Institute of Oncology, and his field of experience focuses, above all, on evaluating the quality of non-experimental studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses.