Trainee research staff

Meet the team

Carla Alfonso Martin

Degree in Neuroscience (King's College London, United Kingdom) and Master in Psychology of Physical Activity and Sport (UAB). FPU Predoctoral researcher at UAB. Member of the Lifestyle, Sport and Health Research Group (2021SGR00806) undertaken her Phd studies in the Doctoral Programme on Health and Sport Psychology. Her main areas of interest are the study of the variability of heart rate, sleep and the balance between stress-recovery in athletes and the general population.

Adrian Diaz Moreno

Psychology
Adrian.Diaz@uab.cat

PhD student and substitute lecturer at the UAB Department of Basic, Developmental and Educational Psychology. He collaborates with the Erasmus+ Sport project The Good Game, on mental health and eSports.

Tony Estrella

antonio.estrella@uab.cat

Graduated in Psychology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Master's degree in Research in Clinical and Health Psychology (UAB). FI Predoctoral researcher at UAB. Member of the Research Group on Lifestyle, Sport and Health (2021SGR00806) and PhD student in the UAB Health and Sport Psychology program. His thesis focuses on the analysis of the healthy lifestyle with Machine Learning models. His interests are specific lifestyle behaviours (sleep, diet, physical activity and stress management) and Artificial Intelligence applied to health.

Marina Garcia Solà

Psychology
Marina.Garcia.Sola@uab.cat

Graduate in Psychology and Master in Psychology of Physical Activity and Sport by the UAB. FI Predoctoral researcher at UAB. Member of the Sport Psychology Study Group within the Research Group on Sport Social Sciences - GRECSE (2021SGR00204). Her main areas of interest are: the dual career and its management, women's sport and the equality of the most vulnerable groups within the world of sport (e.g., LGTBIQ +, Women).

Joel Guillen Cots

Psychology
Joel.Guillen@uab.cat

PhD student and associate lecturer at the UAB Department of Basic, Developmental and Educational Psychology. He collaborates with the research group Sport & Health (2021SGR00806).

José Tomás Mejias Riquelme

Psychology
Josetomas.Mejias@uab.cat

Graduate in Psychology at the University of Chile and Master in Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity at the UAB. FPI Predoctoral Researcher at UAB. Currently doing his PhD on Dual Career for vulnerable athletes. His research experience consists of participating in a European project (ECO-DC) and a national project (HeDuCa), both as member of the UAB Sport and Exercise Psychology Research Group (GEPE) within the Research Group on Sport Social Sciences - GRECSE (2021SGR00204).

Victor Merino Expósito

Psychology
Victor.Merino@uab.cat

Victor graduated in Psychology and holds a Master's degree in Psychology of Physical Activity and Sports from the UAB. He is a member of the Sports Psychology Study Group (GEPE-UAB) at GRECSE (2021SGR00204). His main area of interest is the life career of athletes, that is, all those stages and transitions that they face in addition to the demands of sport (for example, studies, motherhood...). In his doctoral thesis, Víctor will longitudinally analyse the phenomenon of professionalization of LGTBIQ + athletes and evaluate the resources and needs of high-performance sports environments, both public and private, in supporting the careers of this group.

Lídia Ordeix Cordón

Psychology
lidia.ordeix@uab.cat

Predoctoral Researcher at the UAB. Graduate in Psychology and Master in Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity at the same university. She has been a player, coach and currently Sports Psychologist in women's football. Her current research interests focus on the sport and the role that coaches play in it.

Ping Li

Education

Luis Sánchez López

Documentation / History
luisalfonso.sanchez@e-campus.uab.cat

Degree in History from the UAB (2011) and Master's in Archiving and Document Management from ESAGED (2013). Currently doing his PhD on Olympic legacy through the archives. The thesis is directed by Dr. Pilar Cid and within the doctoral program in Comparative, Political and Social History. As a sports historian, he carried out research on sport in the 1930s. He is currently working at the Center for Olympic and Sports Studies Joan Antoni Samaranch.

Rocio Zamora Sole

Psychology
Rocio.Zamora@uab.cat

Graduate in Psychology (Universidad de Flores, Argentina) and Master in Psychology of Physical Activity and Sport (UAB). FI Predoctoral Researcher at UAB. Member of the Research Group in Sport and Exercise Psychology (GEPE) within the Research Group on Sport Social Sciences - GRECSE (2021SGR00204). Her main areas of interest are sports career transitions, dual career management and the development of adapted sports.

Zesheng Yang

Communication
zesheng.yang@e-campus.uab.cat

Zesheng Yang is a PhD student at UAB. He received a Master degree in mass communication at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Singapore Nanyang Technological University(2017). He has worked in several media outlets and international sports organizations. Now he works at the Beijing Organising Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. His doctoral thesis focuses on multi-screen and social TV viewing of sports mega events in China. The PhD is directed by Doctor Emilio Fernández Peña at the UAB Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertisement.