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:

Muro Galindo, Silvia

Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC)

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Muro Galindo, Silvia
Research Professor at
Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC)
Life & Medical Sciences
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Research interests

Dr. Muro's research sits at the interface between cellular biology, nanotechnology, and drug delivery. She studies the biological mechanisms ruling how our tissues transport cargoes within our bodies and applies this knowledge to design of nanodevices for delivery of therapeutics to specific disease sites. Focusing on genetic conditions that cause metabolic, neurodegenerative and cardiovascular syndromes, as well as on a new transport pathway she helped discover, her goal is to gain efficient access within the body and its cells, to enable effective treatment of these life-threatening disorders.

Key words
Drug targeting; drug delivery; receptor-mediated transport; intracellular delivery; brain delivery; enzyme replacement; lysosomal disorders

ORCID
: 0000-0003-1900-352X
Ñaco del Hoyo, Toni

Universitat de Girona (UdG)

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Ñaco del Hoyo, Toni
Research Professor at
Universitat de Girona (UdG)
Humanities
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Research interests

Prof. Ñaco del Hoyo's research and interests lie predominantly with the history of Republican Rome. Alongside J. Principal (Barcelona) and M. Dobson (Exeter) he is recently edted an international volume on ‘Rome and the north-western Mediterranean integration and connectivity c. 150-70 BC’, for Oxbow Books (2022). Also, he has conducted research on Republican taxation, collateral damage, garrisoning strategies, asymmetrical warfare, military intelligence and logistics, crisis management, international relations, and peacebuilding studies in the Classical World. In 2018 he co-edited an international volume on ‘War, Warlords and Interstate relations in the Ancient Mediterranean’ (Leiden-Boston 2018). Also, he is currently co-editing a ‘Brill’s Companion to the Mercenaries of the Ancient Western Mediterranean’, alongside J. Armstrong (Auckland) and L. Rawlings (Cardiff).

Key words
Ancient History, Rome, Republic, Taxation, Finances, War, Warfare, Conflict, Hegemony, NE Hispania, Southern Gaul, Ancient disasters, Peacebuilding, Imperialism, Warlords

ORCID
: orcid.org/0000-0002-9634-5059

RESEARCHER ID
: N-5784-2015
Nagel, Rosemarie Chariklia

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

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Nagel, Rosemarie Chariklia
Research Professor at
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Research interests

Her research builds bridges between economic theory and human behavior, structuring bounded rationality and economic situations through pattern recognition, experimental designs, and cognitive models using game-theoretic, laboratory and field experiments, and neuroscientific tools. She links behavioral data with brain activity gained with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) or eye-tracking data co-working with cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, biologists, and psychologists. Furthermore, with experimental economists and macro theorists, and recently also with computational economists, she organizes summer schools, workshops, and research using experimental tools to tackle macro and computational economic questions. Her approaches are applied in micro and macroeconomics, finance, neuroeconomics, management, psychology, and computer science.

Key words
Experimental Economics (especially macro experiments), Behavioral Economics, Neuro-economics, Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Negotiation

ORCID
: 0000-0001-6599-0664

RESEARCHER ID
: C-6311-2013
Navarro i Cuartiellas, Arcadi

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

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Navarro i Cuartiellas, Arcadi
Research Professor at
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Life & Medical Sciences
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Research interests

Life as we see it in our planet today has been shaped by many different biological processes during billions of years. These processes leave complex and fascinating signatures in our genomes in the form of differences between species, or between individuals of the same species. Studying these patterns of genome diversity we can infer what are the forces that affect living organisms, how and when they act and how do they affect such various things as biodiversity, ageing or the differential susceptibility of different people to complex disease. All this knowledge empowers us to control our future but, above all, it is fun to obtain.

Key words
Genome Evolution, Computational Genomics, Human Genome Diversity, The Genomic Architecture of Complex Traits, Evolutionary Medicine

ORCID
: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2162-8246
Nawar, Tamer

Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

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Nawar, Tamer
Research Professor at
Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
Humanities
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Research interests

My work focuses on diverse issues in the history of philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language of logic.

From January 2023, I am leading a research project ‘Truth in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy’, funded by the European Research Council. This project examines the development of philosophical theories of truth in the Greco-Roman, Arabic, and Latin philosophical traditions in antiquity and the Middle Ages and how such theories responded to problems concerning issues such as semantic paradoxes (e.g. Liar paradoxes), various difficulties concerning the truth of statements about the future, and worries about the nature of correspondence between language and reality.

Key words
Ancient Philosophy; Medieval Philosophy; Metaphysics; Epistemology; Philosophy of Language and Logic

ORCID
: 0000-0001-6504-546X
Neyman, Konstantin M

Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

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Neyman, Konstantin M
Research Professor at
Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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Research interests

The research group Reactivity of Nanostructures of Dr. Neyman at the Universitat de Barcelona deals with computational modelling of advanced, in particular, nanostructured inorganic materials important for catalysis, hydrogen technology, energy storage and related applications. A general aim is to understand at the atomic level by carrying out large-scale quantum mechanical computer calculations how the structure and composition of a material are related with its function in a given chemical process. It is often hardly possible to obtain this information experimentally. Yet, its absence drastically hinders knowledge-driven creation of materials with desired improved properties.

Key words
computational modelling; electronic structure; advanced materials; nanostructures; reactivity; catalysis; hydrogen technology; energy storage; surface phenomena; understanding at the atomic level

ORCID
: 0000-0002-5242-5567

RESEARCHER ID
: F-4055-2011