The ICREAs

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. Have a look and learn about their amazing discoveries and findings here:

Irving, David R M

Institució Milà i Fontanals (CSIC - IMF)

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Irving, David R M
Research Professor at
Institució Milà i Fontanals (CSIC - IMF)
Humanities
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Research interests

My research stands at the nexus of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and global history, examining the role of music in intercultural contact during the early modern period. I have worked on the musical repercussions of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British colonialism in Southeast Asia, and the role of music in various early modern Catholic missions. I aim to develop new conceptual frameworks for global histories of music, and to explore the impact of colonialism on musical thought and practice in early modern Europe. I am working on two monographs, Transitory Sounds: Early Music, Global History, and Decolonial Praxis (under contract to University of Michigan Press) and The Making of "European Music" in the Long Eighteenth Century (under contract to Oxford University Press). I have deep interests in early music and also serve as Chair of the International Musicological Society's Study Group "Global History of Music".

Key words
Music and colonialism; early modern global history; intercultural exchange; musical hybridity and syncretism; music and religion

ORCID
: 0000-0003-3849-1549

RESEARCHER ID
: AAP-4370-2020
Iwasawa, Kazushi

Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

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Iwasawa, Kazushi
Research Professor at
Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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Research interests

My research is an observational study of star-forming galaxies and supermassive black holes that power active galactic nuclei (AGN), mainly at X-ray wavelengths as well as at other wavelengths in cosmic survey projects. The X-ray study is aimed to understand the physics in high-energy phenomena observed in galaxies undergoing intense star formation and the vicinity of central black holes in AGN. The multi-wavelength survey projects aim at understanding the formation and evolution of supermassive black holes. Presently, I am an active member of the multiwavelength projects of GOALS (Great Observatories All-sky LIRGs Survey) for local luminous infrared galaxies, SHELLQs (Subaru High-z Exploration for Low-Luminosity Quasars) for the most distant quasars, and eROSITA-Subaru/HSC collaborations for new X-ray selected AGN.

Key words
Astrophyscis, active galaxies, black holes, X-ray, infrared

ORCID
: 0000-0002-4923-3281
Jiménez Cañero, Gerardo

Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona (CSIC - IBMB)

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Jiménez Cañero, Gerardo
Research Professor at
Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona (CSIC - IBMB)
Life & Medical Sciences
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Research interests

During animal development, the differentiation of cells, tissues and organs is tightly regulated through specific gene expression programs. Our research addresses the transcriptional and cell signaling mechanisms responsible for this control. Most of our work uses the fruit fly, Drosophila, which allows us to combine classical genetic, cell biological and biochemical approaches with genome-editing technologies such as CRISPR-Cas9. One main line of research focuses on Ras-Erk signaling and its downstream effector Capicua (Cic), an evolutionarily conserved transcriptional repressor with key roles in normal development and human diseases. We discovered this factor in Drosophila and are studying its function from different perspectives, including the analysis of its basic mechanism of repression and its interaction with Erk signaling and other signal transduction pathways. In addition, we have a long-term interest in transcriptional corepressors such as the conserved Groucho/TLE and Atrophin proteins, which we are analyzing from a functional and mechanistic point of view. Ultimately, our studies are aimed at defining basic cell biological mechanisms that are relevant to human disorders.

Key words
development, evolution, transcriptional regulation, cell signaling, Drosophila

ORCID
: 0000-0003-2765-9289
Jiménez Tellado, Raúl

Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

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Jiménez Tellado, Raúl
Research Professor at
Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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Research interests

I am a theoretical physicist interested in cosmology and astrophysics. My research ranges from the physics of stars to the early universe. The main objective is to understand the fundamental laws of nature using cosmological and astronomical observations. Topics of research include: cosmological parameters, the age of the universe, stellar evolution, stellar populations, high-redshift galaxies, dark energy, the early universe, large scale structure, the cosmic microwave background, galaxy formation and evolution, and star formation. I am interested in analysing large datasets and the development of rigorous statistical algorithms. I have focussed on developing methods and techniques that are independent of the assumptions of the cosmology model to explore the fundamental laws of nature. I am active in science and public policy and have written on the role that Bayesian statistics, large data, machine and deep learning and robotization can have on our societies.

Key words
Cosmology; Astrophysics

ORCID
: 0000-0002-3370-3103
Juste, Aurelio

Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE)

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Juste, Aurelio
Research Professor at
Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE)
Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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Research interests

My research is focused on accelerator-based experimental particle physics, aiming at achieving an understanding on how Nature operates at the most fundamental level. At the LHC I am carrying out studies on the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark, as well as on the Higgs boson, seeking connections in the dynamics that govern both particles. I am also searching for new phenomena, such as supersymmetric partners of Standard Model particles, exotic heavy quarks appearing in composite Higgs models or models with extra spatial dimensions, or additional Higgs bosons revealing an extended Higgs sector. Since 2016, I lead a team of over 20 scientists from IFAE that analyzes the data from the ATLAS experiment. Between October 2020 and September 2022 I was convener of the ATLAS Exotics working group, leading a team of about 600 scientists pursuing a broad program of new phenomena searches at the energy frontier.

Key words
Particle Physics, LHC, ATLAS, Top Quark, Higgs Boson, New Phenomena

ORCID
: 000-002-1558-3291

RESEARCHER ID
: I-2531-2015
Kallis , Giorgos

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Kallis , Giorgos
Research Professor at
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Research interests

My research is ‘un-disciplinary’. I have worked over the years on very diverse topics; from water policy in Europe or California, participatory science, and evolution in societies, to climate change, limits to growth and conflicts over resource use. What connects my various pieces of work is a quest to understand why and how societies misuse their environments, and why behavioural, institutional and technological changes that could make a difference are not taken up. I am most known for my recent publications on ‘degrowth’, the hypothesis that societies can live better with less. My degrowth research combines institutional, ecological economic and historical analysis to explain how the idea of economic growth came to be hegemonic, why it is limited, and what alternatives there are to growth-based development. My latest book ‘Limits: why Malthus was wrong and why environmentalists should care’ was published by Stanford University Press in 2019.

Key words
degrowth; ecological macro-economics; political ecology; coevolution; climate change, droughts and conflict.