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University of Barcelona

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Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585

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Doctor in Biology and research professor in the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Barcelona.

Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Institute of Neurosciences at the University of Barcelona

PhD candidate in the Department of Social Psychology and Quantitative Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona

ICREA Research Professor and Coordinator of the Regenerative Medicine Programme at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), member of CIBER-BBN, Director of the Clinical Translation Programme in Regenerative Medicine in Catalonia, and Professor of Physiology at the University of Barcelona.

Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Barcelona and member of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology

Associate professor at the University of Barcelona, ICREA Academia fellow, and member of the Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty.

Senior Consultant at the Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology at Hospital Clínic in Barcelona, Professor of Public Health and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Barcelona

Professor of Microbiology, University of Barcelona

Researcher at the Applied Research Group on Neuromuscular Diseases at the Sant Joan de Deu Research Institute in Barcelona; at the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics at the University of Barcelona; and at the Biomedical Research Network Centre for Rare Diseases (CIBERER)

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

Brainlab, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona (UB).

UB Institute of Neuroscience

Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute

Lecturer of the Department of Social Psychology and Quantitative Psychology at the University of Barcelona, researcher at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) and CIBERSAM

ICREA research professor and leader of the QSBio research group at the University of Barcelona

Head of Microbiology at Hospital Clínic in Barcelona, associate professor at the University of Barcelona, and researcher at ISGlobal Barcelona

Deputy Head of the Tobacco Control Unit at the Catalan Institute of Oncology and lecturer in the Department of Nursing, Public Health, Mental Health and Maternal and Child Health at the University of Barcelona

Lecturer  at the University of Barcelona (UB) and head of the Laboratory of Neural Stem Cells and Brain Damage at the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB

Director of the BCNatal maternal-fetal medicine center (Hospital Clínic-Sant Joan de Déu) and professor at the University of Barcelona.

Head of the Arrhythmias and Physical Activity research group at IDIBAPS, cardiac electrophysiologist at Hospital Clínic Barcelona, associate professor of Medicine at the University of Barcelona and researcher at CIBERCV.

Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Barcelona, Head of the Psychiatry and Psychology Department at Hospital Clínic in Barcelona, and researcher at the Biomedical Research Centre in Mental Health (CIBERSAM)

Professor of Pedagogy at the University of Barcelona 

Lecturer in the Department of Fundamental and Clinical Nursing at the University of Barcelona and member of the research group ‘Bioethics, Law and Society: Interdisciplinary analysis of ethical, legal and social issues of biomedicine, biotechnology and emerging technologies’

Professor at the department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona. Principal Investigator IBUB and CIBEROBN.

Geologist and professor at the Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Barcelona

Gemma Marfany, Professor of Genetics at the University of Barcelona (UB) and a member of CIBERER, IBUB-IRSJD
 

Serra Húnter Associate Professor at the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media of the University of Barcelona

Neuropathologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Barcelona

Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Barcelona, Director of the Fabra Observatory RACAB

Professor Emeritus of Ecology at the University of Barcelona

Professor of Medicine at the University of Barcelona and coordinator of the Central Sensitisation Unit at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.

Associate Professor, Brainlab, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona (UB)

UB Institute of Neurosciences

Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute 

Clinical psychologist in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology at Clínic Hospitaland researcher at IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona

Researcher in the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology

Scientific coordinator of the National Health System Cancer Strategy, director of the Catalan Oncology Plan and Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Barcelona

Professor of financial economics and accounting at the University of Barcelona

Researcher in the Human Anatomy and Embryology Unit of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Barcelona

Ramón y Cajal Research Professor, Department of Pathology and Experimental Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Head of the Research Department and the Technology Department at the Duchenne Parent Project, Spain, and holder of the Chair in Rare Diseases at the University of Barcelona

Physician at the Gynecological Oncology Unit at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, ​​scientific coordinator at the Clinical Institute of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Neonatology (ICGON) and associate professor at the University of Barcelona

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona. Principal Investigator IBUB and CIBEROBN.

Associate professor al University of Barcelona and member of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Institut of Neuroscience

Professor of Ecology at the University of Barcelona

Serra Húnter Lecturer in the Department of Social Psychology and Quantitative Psychology at the University of Barcelona and co-director of Research at the Jane Goodall Institute Spain and Senegal

Head of Medical Oncology at the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), head of the Colorectal Cancer Research Group, Oncobell programme (IDIBELL) and associate professor of Medicine at the University of Barcelona

 

ICREA research professor of Cosmology and Theoretical Physics at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona, visiting professor in the Astrophysics group at Imperial College London (United Kingdom), and researcher at the Imperial Centre for Inference and Cosmology (ICIC)

Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Barcelona 

Theoretical physicist and ICREA professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona

Lecturer Serra Húnter, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biomedicine, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona

Professor in the Department of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Barcelona and group leader at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia

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