Vladimir Asriyan is ICREA Research Professor at CREi, Research Fellow at the CEPR, and an Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics. He was born in Yerevan, Armenia and, prior to moving to Barcelona, obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California-Berkeley and a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from the University of California-San Diego. His research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance, and its broad objective is to understand how imperfections --  e.g., due to information asymmetries or agency problems among economic agents -- hinder the functioning of financial markets, how this impacts the economy at large, and what implications this has for corrective policy. His research has furthered our understanding of the origins of financial crises and how policymakers should aim to manage these economic phenomena. 

Paula Bustos is ICREA Research Professor at IPEG, Research Fellow at the European Economic Association and the CEPR and Co-editor at the Journal of International Economics. She obtained her PhD in Economics at Harvard University and her Bachelor Degree at Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Argentina. Her first line of research investigated the effects of trade liberalization on technology adoption and the skill composition of exporting firms. A second research line studies the effects of new agricultural technologies, such as GM crops, on structural transformation. More recently, she is investigating the effects of climate change on labor and capital flows in developing countries. Her research has been funded by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council in 2017.

María’s research combines electrochemistry, materials science and in situ characterisation to elucidate design principles for the discovery and development of novel electrocatalysts for renewable energy conversion and storage. Her work involves engineering the structure of the catalytically active sites at the atomic level, developing advanced nanomaterials, and gaining a mechanistic understanding of relevant reactions for the production of sustainable fuels and chemicals. She has received numerous awards at international and national levels in recognition of her groundbreaking research. In 2022, she has been awarded a ERC Consolidator Grant (2023-2028) for her project ‘ATOMISTIC’ to investigate atomic-scale tailored materials for electrochemical methane activation and conversion into valuable liquid fuels such as methanol.

Dr. Mariona Graupera is an ICREA Research professor and a Group Leader at the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute. She studies how signaling events regulate vessel morphogenesis, and how this knowledge can be translated into therapeutic opportunities for diseases characterized by aberrant vessel growth. Current topics of interest are (i) How the endothelium instructs organ function in an organotypic fashion, (ii) How mural cell plasticity can be targeted to prevent disease pathogenesis and progression, and (iii) Why there is distinct endothelial spatio-temporal sensitivity to oncogenic mutations. Her research combines zebrafish and mouse models, patient derived samples, high-throughput analysis (NGS, single cell RNA sequencing, (phospho)proteomics) and high-resolution imaging. She has held a visiting position at the Rockefeller University, and she is currently the president of the European Vascular Biology Organization (EVBO).

Evelina Leivada is an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, working at the Department of Catalan Philology and the Center of Theoretical Linguistics. Her research focuses on language development in monolingual, bilingual, and bidialectal populations, and involves creating comparative profiles that shed light on how aspects of the developmental trajectory affect language growth and its final outcome. She has tested extensively various domains of morphosyntax in typical and atypical populations that speak different (combinations of) languages. Evelina’s research has a strong interdisciplinary character, using notions, theories, tools, and methods from theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive neuroscience. Her research has been funded by the European Commission, the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Martí i Franquès COFUND Programme, the Tromsø Research Foundation, the A. G. Leventis Foundation, and the Cyprus State Scholarship Foundation.

My Ph.D. is in electrical engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. From 2006 to 2012 I was a lecturer at the School of Electronics and Computer Science of the University of Southampton, U.K. and from 2012 to 2022 a research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. My expertise is in system identification and data-driven control. In 2010, I was awarded an ERC starting grant for a structured low-rank approximation approach to data-driven control. Current topics of interest are data-driven methods for nonlinear, time-varying, and distributed systems.

Hector A. Orengo is an ICREA Research Professor at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology, where he serves as Research Coordinator and co-directs the Landscape Archaeology Research Group (GIAP). He is also currently an Honorary Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. His research has mainly focused on the analysis of human-landscape dynamics in Mediterranean environments and beyond. He has developed extensive research on computational archaeology that includes, but is not restricted to, GIS and remote sensing techniques, field survey, and site detection methods. He is currently working on the application of machine learning to archaeological research using cloud computing and big data sources (mostly multisource multitemporal satellite data, drone imagery and lidar).

I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and I obtained my PhD in Developmental Cell Biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2014. I then trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the Stem Cell Program of Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard University. In my early career, I established various novel methods for studying the fates of individual stem cells, combining lineage tracing and single-cell sequencing to identify determinants of blood formation. In 2021, I joined IRB Barcelona, where I now lead a multidisciplinary team that focuses on stem cell aging and premalignancy. We aim to identify and target drivers of blood cell aging and prevent their progression towards chronic inflammation and cancer. For this, we deploy advanced genetic tools, such as gene editing, to record cellular lineages and signals, as they happen inside an organism, and then we study how this information affects cellular behaviors. Our work has been recognized with prestigious awards and grants, including the ASH Scholar Award, the NHLBI K99 award, the Cris Cancer Excelencia Grant, and the ERC Starting Grant.      

I am an evolutionary biologist interested in how genome sequence and its regulation translate into diverse cellular phenotypes. I obtained a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Barcelona and I then was a postdoctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science. In my group, we investigate the evolution of cell type programs and associated genome regulation. When did major animal cell types like neurons emerge? How do gene regulatory networks evolve? And how these genetic changes translate into cellular novelties? To answer these questions, we combine single-cell genomics, chromatin profiling, and comparative genomics methods in a phylogenetically diverse array of animals and unicellular eukaryotes.

Alex Taylor is an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, whose research focuses on mapping the similarities between different types of intelligence. He obtained his bachelor’s degree at Oxford University and his PhD at the University of Auckland. After working as a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, he worked at the University of Auckland from 2012-23, where he was awarded, by the Royal Society of New Zealand, both a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (2014-19), and the Prime Minister’s Emerging Scientist prize (2015). In 2022, he was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant (2023-2028) for his project ‘UNIPROB’ which aims to establish if human-like probabilistic inference has convergently evolved in the kea parrot.