RESEARCHERS

Researchers

Daniel López Gómez

Co-director · Associate Professor

PhD in Social Psychology
  • Aging and Old Age
  • Care, Welfare and Health
  • Science & Technology Studies
  • Digital Technologies
  • Home and Care
  • Animals
Irra Rodríguez Giralt

Irra Rodríguez Giralt

Co-director · Associate Professor

PhD in Social Psychology
  • Social Movements
  • Science & Technology Studies
  • Disasters Studies. 
Zeynep Sila Akinci

Zeynep Sila Akinci

Postdoctoral researcher Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow

PhD in Geography
  • urban design
  • spatial analysis
  • multispecies urban rest
  • heat extreme
  • visual ethnography
  • behaviour mapping

Míriam Arenas Conejo

Assistant Professor

PhD in Sociology
  • Participation
  • Feminist Studies
  • Disability, Youth and Childhood
Pablo Alonso García

Pablo Alonso García

UOC PhD Researcher

PhD Candidate in Society, Technology and Culture
  • Science and technology studies
  • Multispecies studies
  • Octopus culture

Roser Beneito Montagut

Associate Professor

PhD in Fine Arts – MA Sociology
  • Digital Sociology
  • Ageing
  • Disasters
Maria Cifre Sabater

Maria Cifre Sabater

Researcher

PhD in Anthropology
  • Environmental Anthropology – Wildfires
  • Social Vulnerability – Disasters
  • Climate Change – Participatory Governance

Tomás Criado

Senior Researcher Ramón y Cajal Fellow

PhD in Anthropology
  • Care
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Urban infrastructures
  • Multimodal ethnography
  • Heat & shade
Judith Igelsboeck

Judith Igelsboeck

UOC Postdoctoral Fellow

PhD in Science & Technology Studies
  • Emerging technologies
  • Digital twins
  • Digital Humanities
  • Artistic Research Methods

 

 

 

Mònica Genover

Mònica Genover

Research Assistant

PhD Candidate in Social Organizational Psychology
  • Ageing
  • Care
  • Queer Theory and LGTBQ ageing
  • Institutional ageism
  • New attention models
  • Participatory Methods
Belén Jiménez-Alonso

Belén Jiménez-Alonso

Assistant Professor

PhD in Psychology
  • Grief
  • End of Life
  • Digital tools
  • Social networks
  • Cancer / young cancer patients
  • Mediation
  • Cultural Psychology
Brigida Cristina Maestres Useche

Brigida Cristina Maestres Useche

Assistant Professor

PhD in Social Psychology - Sociologist
  • Sensory Studies
  • Art Based Research
  • Aesthetic Epistemology
  • Phenomenology and Power
  • Biopolitics
Asun Pié Balaguer

Asun Pié Balaguer

Associate Professor

PhD in Social Pedagogy
  • Critical Disability Studies
  • Queer Studies
  • Mad Studies
  • Ethics of Care
Miguel Salas Soneira

Miguel Salas Soneira

Lecturer

Doctor en Pedagogía
  • Estudios locos
  • pedagogía crítica
  • antropología médica

Past team

Cristina Barrial Berbén

Predoctoral researcher (2021-25)

PhD Candidate in Society, Technology and Culture
  • Care
  • Labour
  • Collective Action

Blanca Callén

Affiliated Professor (2022-25)

PhD Social Psychology
  • Science, Technology and Society (STS)
  • Collective Action 
  • Material Cultures
Nizaiá Cassián Yde

Nizaiá Cassián Yde

Affiliated Professor (2016-25)

PhD in Social Psychology
  • Urban Studies
  • Feminist Epistemologies and Writing
  • Anti-racist fighting

Pelin Çakir

Predoctoral researcher (2021-25)

Predoctoral researcher · UOC
  • Mobility
  • Vulnerability
  • Collective Care
  • Social Movements
  • Queer/Feminist Theory

Péter Dunajcsik (Maxigas)

Researcher (2017)

PhD in Information and Knowledge Society
  • Hacker Studies
  • STS

 

Sara Degli Esposti

Sara Degli Esposti

Researcher (2017)

PhD in Management

Lluvi Farré

Predoctoral researcher (2016-21)

PhD Candidate in Information and Knowledge Society
  • Older people
  • Design
  • Science and Technology Studies
Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia

Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia

Researcher (2023-24)

PhD in Urban Sociology
Andrea García-Santesmases

Andrea García-Santesmases

Affiliated Professor (2017-22)

PhD in Sociology
  • Disability Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Sexuality Studies

Carmen Lozano Bright

Research assistant (2023-25)

MA in Anthropology
  • Borders
  • Migrations
  • Language and forms of expression
  • Commons

Catuxa Maíz

Predoctoral researcher (2022-25)

Doctoranda
  • Care
  • Public Health
  • Gender Studies

Alexandre Molina

Research assistant (2022-25)

Geographer and Licensed Sociologist
  • Conservation
  • Political sociology
  • Education
  • Heritage

Joan Moyà Kohler

Affiliated professor (2014-25)

PhD Social Psychology
  • Social Movements
  • Down Syndrome
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Care
Isabeau Ottolini

Isabeau Ottolini

Predoctoral researcher (2020 - 2024)

PhD in Society, Technology and Cultura
  • Disaster communication and governance
  • Socio-environmental justice
  • Land stewardship and defence
  • Participatory and ethnographic research
Miranda Pérez-Hita

Miranda Pérez-Hita

Research Assistant (2026)

BA in Design · MA in Visual Culture
  • Graphic Design
  • Experimental publishing
  • Visual Thought
Álvaro Poo

Álvaro Poo

Predoctoral researcher (2022-23)

Doctor en Psicología Social

Integrated land (and fire) management
Commmons
Rural communities

Álvaro Ramírez March

Álvaro Ramírez March

Postdoc researcher (2024-25)

PhD in Person and Society in the Contemporary World
Beatriz Pérez Pérez

Beatriz Pérez Pérez

Researcher (2024)

PhD in Individual and Society in the Contemporary World
  • human rights
  • madness
  • disability
  • mental health
  • care policies

Rocío Thovar

Predoctoral researcher (2017-2025)

PhD in Citizenship and Human Rights
  • Animal Rights Movement
  • Animal Ethics
  • Bioethics

Clàudia Torrens

Research Assistant (2023-24)

MD Ecological Economics and Political Ecology
  • Ecological crisis
  • Social and solidarity economy
  • Global challenges

Laia Ventura Garcia

Affiliated Professor (2021-25)

PhD in Anthropology and Communication
  • Health
  • Disasters
  • Social Inequalities 
  • Sexuality Studies 
  • Risk 

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