Laia Andreu research focuses on the study of the interactions between forests and the environment and on reconstructing past climate conditions using tree rings and isotopic geochemistry. Warming temperatures associated with global climate change are having dramatic and profound impacts on forests, and her research centers on assessing these changes across several key regions of the planet. She is currently conducting research in boreal, tropical, Central Asian and Mediterranean regions, which are ‘hot spots’ of current climate and environmental change.

Xavier Costa-Pérez research focuses on the digital transformation of society (DX) driven by the interplay of mobile networks and AI. In contrast to previous mobile network generations, a key new aspect for the industry is the need to expand the mobile ecosystem to incorporate industry verticals like automotive, manufacturing, smart-grids and health. While early research and field trial results are promising, the AI-driven automation of mobile networks for a cost-efficient society digitalization (DX) is still at its infancy and will require a huge research effort to deliver on the DX promises in the next decades.

Iñaki is a Demographer who currently works on the study of mortality and population health dynamics. Specifically, he studies some of the consequences of the population ageing process that is unfolding across most societies around the world. Inter alia, he investigates the emergence of new layers of inequality ensuing from the retreat of death to higher ages and the increasing heterogeneity in population health distributions. He is the Head of the “Health and Demography” Unit at the Center for Demographic Studies and is the PI of an ERC Consolidator Grant (2020-2025).