The ICREA Academia 2016 program honours three lecturers of the UB

The awarded UB lecturers with the Vice-Rector for Doctorate and Research Promotion, Xavier Roigé.
The awarded UB lecturers with the Vice-Rector for Doctorate and Research Promotion, Xavier Roigé.
Research
(25/07/2017)

The ICREA Academia 2016 program has awarded the scientific trajectory of three researchers of the University of Barcelona within the framework of an edition that distinguished the research of fifteen experts in Catalonia. The award ceremony took place yesterday in Palau de la Generalitat, and the awarded UB lecturers were Noemí Pereda Beltran, from the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology; Giancarlo Franzese, from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, and Susana Narotzky Molleda, from the Department of Social Anthropology. The ICREA Academia awardees receive a grant to do research during five years.

The awarded UB lecturers with the Vice-Rector for Doctorate and Research Promotion, Xavier Roigé.
The awarded UB lecturers with the Vice-Rector for Doctorate and Research Promotion, Xavier Roigé.
Research
25/07/2017

The ICREA Academia 2016 program has awarded the scientific trajectory of three researchers of the University of Barcelona within the framework of an edition that distinguished the research of fifteen experts in Catalonia. The award ceremony took place yesterday in Palau de la Generalitat, and the awarded UB lecturers were Noemí Pereda Beltran, from the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology; Giancarlo Franzese, from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, and Susana Narotzky Molleda, from the Department of Social Anthropology. The ICREA Academia awardees receive a grant to do research during five years.

The Minister of Business and Knowledge, Santi Vila, who chaired the award ceremony, said that “ICREA is an excellent program based on recruiting the best talent to do quality research and is giving excellent results, and is an encouragement and an incentive to continue with the progress and retain a primer human capital that gives prestige to the Catalan university system”.  Noemí Pereda, who took part in the event as well, highlighted that this award is a honor and confessed she is very proud both personally and regarding research. Also, she highlighted the importance of doing research: “As a lecturer, I can say research is not independent from teaching, it doesnʼt have to be, because it contributes to train good professionals and enables us questioning things that were established as an action basis for years”.  

Noemí Pereda Beltran, graduated in Psychology at the University of Barcelona in 1999, holds a doctorate in Psychology (University of Barcelona, 2006). She has been a tenured university lecturer of Victimology since 2013 and teaches lessons in the bachelor degree of Criminology. Expert on the topics of developmental victimology, she outstands for her work in the field of abuses and sexual child abuse. She collaborates as consultant in the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization in themes linked to violence against childhood in Spain and is member of the Advisory Council of Síndic de Greuges de Catalunya per a la prevenció de la tortura I altres tractes o penes cruels, inhumanes o degradants and in the organization Save the Children. Since 2009, she has led the Research Group on Child and Adolescent Victimization (GReVIA) of the University of Barcelona.

Giancarlo Franzese has led, since 2003, the research group Complex Matter Group at the Univesity of Barcelona, which analyses complex liquids and the role of water in nanoscopic and biological systems with theoretic calculations and numerical simulations, in collaboration with   experimental groups. After getting his doctorate in Physics at the University of Naples (1998), he became an adjunct researcher in leading institutions and visiting scientist in many international centers. He is now a tenured university lecturer at the UB (since 2008) and has been accredited as full professor of the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU) since 2014. Among the awards he received are the CNR Young Research Fellow Abroad in 2000; the Programa dʼIncentiu de la UB per a la Millora de lʼActivitat Investigadora (Program for the improvement of research activity) in 2012; and the recognition of the Royal Society of Chemistry (United Kingdom) as best emerging researcher in soft matter in 2012.

Susana Narotzky holds a doctorate in Geography and History (University of Barcelona, 1989) and a doctorate in Philosophy (New School for Social Research, New York, 1990). She is now professor of Anthropology at the UB and her research lines are focused on informal economy and deregulation policies, family work and women work, recovery of the most recent Spanish historical memory and social movements of the democratic Spain and the effects of deindustrialization. Awarded with an ICREA Academia in 2010, she also received a European Research Council Advance Grant for her project Grassroots economics: meaning, project and practice in the pursuit of livelihood (GRECO). She was member of the Advisory Council of Wenner-Gren Foundation on Anthropological Research (2006-2010), president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists and delegate in the World Council of Anthropological Associations (2015-2018). Among the books she published are Immediate struggles. People, power and place in rural Spain (2006, with Gavin Smith as co-author); New directions in Economic Anthropology (1997) and La antropología de los pueblos de España. Historia, cultura y lugar (2001). She has also published many articles in International scientific journals.

The ICREA Academia program was launched in 2008 with the objective of promoting and awarding the excellence of the research carried out by lecturers in Catalan public universities. Therefore, the program contributes to boost research carried out by university lecturers who are in an active and extending phase of their research career.