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November 4, 2021

Job Market Candidates list for 2021/22 now available

The list of Job Market Candidates for the 2021/22 academic year has been published on the UB School of Economics website. In recent years, our PhD students have obtained positions at top institutions and organisations. List of 2020/2021 Job Market Candidates placements: Magdalena Domínguez : Postdoctoral researcher, Uppsala University Rodrigo Martinez-Mazza: Postdoctoral researcher, Uppsala University Jeffrey M. Pagel: Research officer (Postdoc), London School of Economics Alessio Romarri: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Milan Nicola Rubino: Postdoctoral researcher,…

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November 2, 2021

UB, the institution with most influential researchers affiliated

The University of Barcelona is the Spanish university institution with most researchers within the 2 % of most influential scientists in the science disciplines, regarding to its production and impact, according to the database published by the editorial Elsevier. The database gathers the leading scientists in different disciplines and is made out of the information provided by the Scopus database. Specifically, in this 2 % of global leading scientists are…

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October 19, 2021

New edition of ‘The UB in figures’ with the highlights of the year 2020/2021

With the occasion of the inauguration of the academic year, the new edition of The UB in figures has been published. The document summarizes the main strengths of the University and its academic activity, and the evolution of some variables over the last years. For the academic year 2021-2022, a total of 72 bachelor’s degrees courses, 15 dual study pathways, 170 master’s degrees courses and 46 doctoral programmes have been…

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October 18, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted diagnostics and healthcare services

The COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on the diagnosis and treatment of all other diseases during this time. According to the article “Missing Diagnoses During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Year in Review” published in the scientific journal “International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health”, the pandemic had major impacts on population health, not only through COVID-positive cases, but also via the disruption of healthcare services. The study, co-authored by…

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September 24, 2021

UB School of Economics is recruiting three tenure-elegible lecturers

The UB School of Economics is recruiting three tenure-eligible lecturers, two in the Department of  Econometrics, Statistics and Applied Economics and one in the Mathematics for Economics, Finance and Actuarial Sciences at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona. The first position is in the field of Applied Economics, the second one in the area of Quantitative Methods in Economics and Business and the third position is in the field of…

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September 20, 2021

The UB School of Economics joins the European Researchers’ Night 2021

On September 23, it will take place the activity ‘Cafés científics de la UB’. It is a series of meetings at the Ferran Soldevila garden in the UB Historical Building in which experts from various fields at the University of Barcelona will be share their knowledge with the public, thus offering a multidisciplinary view of different issues as cities of the future, food labelling and waste, and microplastics. Through these…

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