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:

Raya Chamorro, Ángel

Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL)

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Raya Chamorro, Ángel
Research Professor at
Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL)
Life & Medical Sciences
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Research interests

Our research work aims to understand the tissue, cellular and molecular mechanisms that determine the regenerative response in certain species of vertebrates, as well as the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that control cellular reprogramming. This phenomenon provides a link between the traditional study of epimorphic regeneration and the induced pluripotency strategies of regenerative medicine.

Key words
Stem cells, pluripotency, regeneration, heart, cell differentiation

ORCID
: 0000-0003-2189-9775

RESEARCHER ID
: E-6205-2010
Reguant Rido, Mar

Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC - IAE)

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Reguant Rido, Mar
Research Professor at
Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC - IAE)
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Research interests

My research agenda is focused on the study of energy markets (and other energy-intense industries) and how they interact with environmental and climate policies. I develop quantitative models and tools to study and quantify the impacts of various policies.

I have examined the impact of carbon prices on electricity markets, the exercise of market power by power plants in the presence of dynamic costs, the interaction between market power and leakage in cap-and-trade regulations, and the impacts of market power in sequential markets. I also study the unequal impacts of climate policies.

I put special emphasis on how machine learning tools can contribute to our analysis of these markets. For example, over the last years, I have published work studying the impact of energy efficiency policies using a diff-in-diff machine-learning framework. In my ERC grant, "ENECML: Understanding the Energy Transition with a Machine Learning Toolbox" I further expand this line of research.

Key words
electricity markets, climate policy, environmental regulation

ORCID
: 0000-0001-8877-5780
Reyes García, Victoria

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Reyes García, Victoria
Research Professor at
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Research interests

My research encompasses the interdisciplinary study of the dynamic relations among peoples, biota, and environments. I use a multidisciplinary perspective (working with ecologists, economists, psychologists, agronomists, archaeologists, and computer scientists) and empirical data to analyse 1) the effects of global change on rural livelihoods and local environments and 2) social responses to environmental changes. My research draws on insights from anthropology and the behavioural sciences to work at multiple levels- from the views of villagers in developing nations to those of policy-makers in industrial nations. My current areas of research include 1) local indicators of climate change impacts, 2) public participation in the documentation of local knowledge, 3) the adaptive nature of local environmental knowledge, 4) Indigenous peoples and cultural change, and 5) local participation in biodiversity conservation.

Key words
Biocultural diversity; Conservation; Global change; Ethnoecology; Indigenous and local knowledge systems; local indicators climate change.

ORCID
: 0000-0002-2914-8055

RESEARCHER ID
: C-4552-2008
Reynal-Querol, Marta

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

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Reynal-Querol, Marta
Research Professor at
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Research interests

My main research interest is the study of the causes and consequences of conflict. I analyzed the relationship between religious and ethnic fractionalization, polarization, and conflict and development. I have also worked on the effectiveness of foreign aid and on the relationship between poverty and civil war and on the study of the institutional designs that may prevent or mitigate, such social conflicts. In particular I construct a database on the characteristics of leaders over the 20th century and I investigated whether there are systematic differences in the type of leaders that can explain the economic development of countries. More recently I am using administrative data on the first colonizers of Latin America to reexamine the issue of institutions versus human capital in the explanation of economic development and conflict. Moreover I am starting a line of research on the analysis of Development and Conflict using Big Data. In particular I am working on the construction of new measures of inequality.

Key words
Conflict, Development, Institutions, ethnic diversity, leadership
Reynolds, Paul

Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

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Reynolds, Paul
Research Professor at
Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
Humanities
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Research interests

The principal aim of my research is the study of trade networks and economies of the Classical-Late Antique Mediterranean, Black Sea & Atlantic through the definition of regional ceramic typologies and analysis of the regional-long distance distribution of ceramics in major ports (table-wares, amphorae & cooking wares). I am interested in all factors that contributed to the supply of goods: private, state, city, ecclesiastical & administrative structures. Other interests include Hellenistic-Roman cuisine-cultural interaction in the Roman East; typologies and archaeometry of local ceramics in W Greece-Peloponnese; analysis of organic residues in amphorae (Spanish Ministry RACA-Med I and II projects); typologies, archaeometry, dating, function of Islamic pottery in Utica and N Africa (ongoing Barakat Trust project).

Key words
Pottery, amphorae, fine wares, cooking wares, trade, economic history, shipping routes, networks, annona, Hellenistic, Late Republican, Roman, Late Roman, Late Antiquity, Early Byzantine, Early Islamic, Vandals, Mediterranean, Black Sea

ORCID
: 0000-0001-7507-0167

RESEARCHER ID
: K-7799-2017
Ribas de Pouplana, Lluís

Institut de Recerca Biomèdica (IRB Barcelona)

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Ribas de Pouplana, Lluís
Research Professor at
Institut de Recerca Biomèdica (IRB Barcelona)
Life & Medical Sciences
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Research interests

Our laboratory investigates the process of protein synthesis, its evolution, and its connections to human health. We are preoccupied by two fundamental questions: what are the functional limits of the protein synthesis apparatus, and how is protein synthesis regulated and integrated within the context of the cell. We want to understand what defines the boundaries of the proteomes of species, and what specific adaptations allow certain organisms to fabricate proteins that are inaccessible to other species. In addition, we are studying protein synthesis in the mitochondria, with a particular emphasis on the mechanisms that coordinate mitochondrial protein synthesis to mitochondrial dynamics and cell cycle. How these biosynthetic routes are coordinated, and how are they synchronized with the cell cycle is unknown. We want to contribute to the resolution of this problem through the study of an essential mitochondrial protein that we discovered in the lab. Finally, we want to investigate the role of tRNA dynamics in the control of the cellular response to external insults in the form of inflammation. To that end we are developing a new model for the study of human inflammation based on the analysis of resected pediatric vermicular appendices.

Key words
protein synthesis origin of life metabolic diseases biotechnology