Icrea Call
HIGHLIGHTS
Cancer cells move like active liquid droplets
Read highlightArtificial Intelligence applications do not understand the limits of grammar like humans
Read highlightChromosomal instability causes DNA damage and promotes invasion
Read highlightNuclear Fusion Results from the JET tokamak
Read highlightUnderstanding the magic of movie watching in the brain
Read highlightFundamental limits to learning mathematical models from data
Read highlightEuropean 5G Security in the Wild: Reality versus Expectations
Read highlightInfants use logic to reduce uncertainty in learning
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ICREA IS AN INSTRUMENT OF THE CATALAN GOVERNMENT
ICREA is a public institution 100% funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
ICREA is an institution without walls. It works hand in hand with Catalan universities and research centres to integrate ICREA research professors in the Catalan research system.
ICREA offers permanent, tenured positions to researchers from all over the world to come and work in Catalonia.
Over the years these positions have become a synonym of global academic excellence.
ICREA COMMUNITY
ICREA Research Professors form a vibrant community of scientists and researchers in all areas of knowledge that contribute to the advancement of humankind by exploring, interpreting and questioning.
UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH CENTRES IN CATALONIA
ICREA would not make any sense without the dense network of host institutions that are actively involved in research in Catalonia.
THE NEW ICREAs
ICREA is an expanding community. Each year, new researchers join ICREA
after the ICREA call. This is a list of the most recent incorporations. We
would like to give them all a very warm welcome to the ICREA
community: Benvinguts!
Berruezo-Sánchez, Diana
Humanities
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
I am a scholar of literature recovering a missing chapter in the cultural history of Afro-Iberian diasporas in the 16th and 17th centuries. With a focus on Spain and in connection with the Iberian World, I aim to provide a new framework to challenge our understanding of Europe’s past and its people.
Biagetti, Stefano
Humanities
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
My research focuses on human adaptation to climate change and food security in drylands. I am developing new geo-ethnoarchaeological methodologies to study pastoralism using a multiproxy approach.
Böke, Elvan
Life & Medical Sciences
Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)
Our research focuses on the strategies and mechanisms that allow egg cells to evade ageing for decades, and why these strategies eventually fail with advanced age.
De les Coves, Gemma
Humanities
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
While my background and academic career is centered around quantum information and mathematical physics, in recent years I have been thinking about questions in philosophy and linguistics, mainly around notions of universality and unreachability.
Eskicioglu, Cigdem
Engineering Sciences
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
As an environmental engineer, I develop technologies to convert waste into valuable resources, aiming for a biorefinery and circular economy. My research tackles industrialization and urbanization challenges by designing advanced reactor processes for efficient contaminant removal and waste-to-biofuel...
Guxens Junyent, Monica
Life & Medical Sciences
Institut de Salut Global Barcelona (ISGlobal)
My research focuses on investigating how environmental factors, mainly air pollution, temperature, electromagnetic fields, and persistent and non-persistent chemicals, affect children's health, in particular brain development.
Heyn, Holger
Life & Medical Sciences
Centre Nacional d'Anàlisi Genómica (CNAG)
Genomics scientist investigating cellular mechanisms in health and disease. Expert in single-cell and spatial genomics with a focus on immune diagnostics and therapies. Dr Heyn leads CNAG’s Single Cell Genomics group, merging tech and computational expertise for translational and clinical research.
Hickel, Jason
Social & Behavioural Sciences
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Jason Hickel's research focuses on international political economy and ecological economics. He is Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the UAB, Visiting Professor at the International Inequalities Institute at the LSE, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Mazzocco, Marta
Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Marta is a mathematician specializing in Integrable Systems. Her research fuses geometry, quantum algebra and analysis to attack complex challenges in Theoretical Physics. She obtained her PhD at SISSA, Italy, and is now based at UPC.
Moreno Lax, Violeta
Social & Behavioural Sciences
Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
I am an interdisciplinary lawyer, specialising in international migration, critical security studies, and human rights. My current project 'Towards Border Justice' problematizes the mechanisms of 'crisification' and 'crimmigration' as new means of global migration governance in search of alternative models.
Novoa Pardo, Eva Maria
Life & Medical Sciences
Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)
Dr. Novoa aims to decipher the language of RNA modifications, and how its orchestration can regulate our cells in a space-, time- and signal-dependent manner. Through the use of single molecule technologies, she is studying their functional relevance and exploiting them for clinical applications.
Rasella, Davide
Social & Behavioural Sciences
Institut de Salut Global Barcelona (ISGlobal)
I am driven to develop innovative approaches and advanced methods to evaluate the impact of social protection policies and primary health care on poverty-related diseases, health disparities, and preventable mortality, particularly among the most vulnerable populations.
ANNUAL REPORT
These research reports summarize the work done during a year.
Publications are the most visible part of research, but we must also take into consideration other elements that show the contribution of our researchers to the improvement of the Catalan R+D system: creation of new research teams and opening of new research lines, consolidation of existing teams and research areas, mentoring of doctoral dissertations, teaching at all academic levels, etc.
Thus, the reports quantify not only the scientific production of our researchers but also their broader impact.
