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.

9 UNIVERSITIES

27 CERCA CENTRES

8 CSIC CENTRES

3OTHER RESEARCH CENTRES

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!

Gualtieri, Marco

Experimental Sciences & Mathematics

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

I work in geometry and mathematical physics, with a focus on developing mathematical structures with applications to quantum field theory. My main contributions have been in generalized complex and Kähler geometry, Poisson geometry, singular differential equations and discrete geometry. 

McCready, Elin

Humanities

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Elin McCready works mainly in linguistics and philosophy of language and has published on a variety of topics in the formal analysis of linguistic meaning. She obtained a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005 and worked at Aoyama Gakuin University from 2006 to 2024.

Roca Aparicio, Anna

Life & Medical Sciences

Institut de Salut Global Barcelona (ISGlobal)

As an infectious disease epidemiologist, I design tailored interventions to reduce viral & bacterial mortality among the world’s most vulnerable populations. My research integrates epidemiology, microbiology and genomics to investigate transmission and develop strategies that drive global impact.

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.