RESEARCH TEAM

PhD in Sociology (UB, 2002). Degree in Geography and History, specializing in cultural anthropology (UB, 1989). She received a Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship (2004-2005) for Boston University and for Harvard University (2006 and 2008). Professor at the URV since 2009. She has been the coordinator of the EU project Horizon 2020: SoCaTel. A multi-stakeholder co-creation platform for better access to long-term care services (2017-21), in which the SoCaTel platform for carrying out digital co-creation of long-term care services has been developed from a humanistic centric approach. Two twinning projects from DigitalHelathEurope, 2020 in Italy (Veneto) and In-4-AHA (EIP on AHA), 2022 in the Czech Republic (Ústí nad Labem) on the adoption of the SoCaTel platform have also been developed. She has also participated in other European funded projects on long-term care: the COST Action social services, welfare states and places (2011-15) and COST Action Ageism a multi-national, interdisciplinary perspective (2014-18). Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the Journal of Social Service Research (2016) about ageing and the economic crisis. She was the coordinator of the Master Degree on Medical Anthropology and Global Health (2016-2018). She is also collaborator at the Finnish Centre of Excellence AgeCare, University of Jyväskylä, where she is involving in digitalisation of care work. She is also an associate member of Boston University's Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences and member of the UNESCO Housing Chair at the URV.

He is a senior lecturer [Associate Professor] at the Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering, University of Auckland (New Zealand), since 2015. He received his B.S. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University (Republic of Korea), and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer science from Seoul National University (Republic of Korea) in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He was a researcher at Samsung Software Membership, Samsung Electronics Co. (Republic of Korea) from 2001 to 2008. He was a visiting researcher at the Intelligent Systems Research Institute at Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan) in 2006, funded by JSPS and NRF. He was a senior researcher at Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (Republic of Korea) from 2010 to 2012. He was a lecturer at the University of Science & Technology (Republic of Korea) from 2011 to 2012. He was a research scientist at Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Department of Ambient Intelligence, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (Japan) from 2012 to 2013. He was a postdoctoral researcher (research professor) at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) from 2013 to 2015. His research interests include social robots, cultural robots, Human-Robot Interaction, affective computing, artificial emotional systems, healthcare robots, intelligent interactive systems, facial robots, android robots, humanoid robots, intelligent service robots, and modular robot systems. He has 2 books, and published over 100 research papers, 3 book chapters, 18 patents, and over 100 technical reports. He got 19 Best Paper Awards, 1 Best Research Award, and 29 Awards from Robotics Competitions, such as intelligent robot competitions and FIRA robot soccer championships.

 Professor of Sociology at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). He holds a PhD in Economics and Business from URV and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires. Additionally, he completed a postgraduate program in Politics and Economics at the Institute of Advanced Social Studies at the National University of General San Martín (Argentina). He has undertaken research stays as a visiting scholar at the Lateinamerika Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), the National University of Mar del Plata (Argentina), and the Centre for Ibero-American Studies of Charles University in Prague (Czechia). He has also collaborated on joint projects with research groups in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Costa Rica. His main research areas include economic sociology, historical sociology, and development policies. He is the author and co-author of various books and articles in scientific journals.

She holds a PhD in Sociology and is a full professor of Sociology at the University of Extremadura (UEx), where she teaches at the Faculty of Economics and Business. She is the coordinator of the research group Analysis of Social Reality (ARS_sociológica) belonging to the Science and Technology System of the Regional Government of Extremadura. She has published in prestigious national and international journals and has carried out research stays at important European and Latin American universities and institutes. Her main lines of research focus on socio-environmental issues (environment-society interaction) and the effects of ageing processes in advanced societies

Degree in Political Science and Sociology (Complutense University of Madrid, UCM) and degree in Law. Master's in Constitutional Law and Political Science (Center for Political and Constitutional Studies). Ph.D. in Political Science and Sociology (UCM). Currently an Associate Professor and researcher in the Department of Business Management and Sociology at the University of Extremadura (UEx), where he is part of the Social Reality Analysis research group (ARS). He has been a visiting researcher at the Université de Sciences Humaines (Strasbourg), the Centre d'Études Sociologiques Sorbonne (CESS) (Paris), as well as at the European Commission (Brussels), the Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services of the European Parliament (Luxembourg), and the Institute for Advanced Social Studies (IESA-CSIC) (Córdoba). His research focuses on welfare and labour policies, especially active employment policies, active retirement, and dependency care.

Graduated in Sociology from the University of Salamanca (2012), holds a master's degree in Social Problems from the National University of Distance Education (2014) and a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Salamanca (2019). Currently, she is an Assistant Professor and researcher at the University of Extremadura (UEx). She is a member of the Social Reality Analysis (ARS in Spanish) research group at UEx. She has published several articles in national and international journals with impact factors and book chapters in prestigious publishing houses. Her research focuses on active ageing (always from a gender perspective), particularly on aspects such as the analysis of elements affecting active ageing; the interaction between older people and their environment; the study of the consequences of active ageing; technological advances (robotics) and their impact on the lives of older people. Currently, she is involved in the national projects "Design of a Social Robot under Functional Constraints (SHADOW)" and "Human-Robot Interaction with Older Adults with Dementia: Sociocultural and Gender Differences and Ethical and Professional Implications in the Use of Companion Robots (MyRobot)".

She is a medical anthropologist with a special interest in psychiatry, ageing (esp. Alzheimer, Parkinson), medications, and, more recently, the cultures of stem cells. From 1995-2000 she was a professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro where she founded the Center for aging and dementia (CDA). After a postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University, at the department of Social Studies of Medicine, she is now a professor of medical anthropology at the Faculty of Nursing, Université de Montréal and a researcher of the research groups CREGÉS (Qc), MéOS (Qc) and associated researcher at PACTE (France), PEPAS (Brazil), and NEPSC (UCSAL' Brazil). Her most recent books are entitled Thinking about Dementia - Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility (2006), The Shadow Side of Fieldwork - Exploring the Blurred Borders between Ethnography and Life (2007), and a volume on "technologies of hope".

Graduated in Early Childhood Education and Interuniversity Master's Degree in Educational Technology at Rovira i Virgili University (URV). PhD in the Educational Technology programme at the URV. Lecturer in the Department of Pedagogy and member of the Applied Research Group in Education and Technology (ARGET) at the same university. Her main lines of research are Digital Teaching Competence, Teacher Training and Digital Inclusion and Accessibility. Her experience in the Educational Resources Service of the Rovira i Virgili University has given her skills in the use of different technologies, as well as in the design and implementation of face-to-face and virtual training for university teachers, mainly. She has participated in several national and international projects related to the evaluation and certification of digital competence in teaching from an inclusive perspective. She leads an innovation project to improve the training of future teachers related to the inclusive use of digital technologies in highly complex school environments.

She is a Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Community Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, and a member of the M3O research group. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Barcelona, with expertise in qualitative and quantitative research methods and data analysis. She has conducted research stays at the University of Arizona and Harvard University. Her work focuses on social determinants of health, contributing to European-funded projects like ALICERAP on addiction policies. She also holds a Master's in University Teaching, with research on teamwork competence assessment, and participates in teaching innovation projects. Her research interests include research design, public health, and quality of life.