Burgen Scholars 2014#
FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Urban Planning and Environmental Studies
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Isabelle Anguelovski is a social scientist trained in urban and environmental planning (PhD, MIT, 2011), whose research is situated at the intersection of urban planning and policy, social inequality, and development studies. She also graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Studies from Science Po Lille (2000) and obtained a Master’s in International Development at the Université de Paris-1 Sorbonne (2001). In addition, she pursued a Graduate Certificate in NonProfit Management at Harvard University (2004). Isabelle considers herself as a scholar activist who took several positions in international NGOs before starting her PhD in 2006. She spent 10 years in the US before returning to Europe – to the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2011 – where she is now a Senior Researcher and Principal Investigator.
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FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Neurobiology
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My passion for science sprouted in me at a very early age when I was at high school. That was when I decided to begin my studies to obtain the degree in Biology at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM, Madrid, Spain). During my years at the university I developed a growing interest in Neuroscience. A great part of this motivation arose during my stay in two different laboratories at the faculty (Dr. Mª José Hazen´s Laboratory, Cell Biology Area and Dr. Isabel Molina´s Laboratory, Physiology Area) where I had the opportunity to join in thanks to an Excellence Scholarship for undergraduate students from Comunidad de Madrid (awarded from 2003/2004 to 2005/2006 academic courses). In my last year, I defended my Degree Final Project, developed at Prof. Jesús Ávila´s Laboratory in the Neurobiology Area of the Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBMSO), obtaining a mark of 10/10 cum laude and the best Final Degree Project award from de Official College of Biologist from Comunidad de Madrid.
After obtaining my degree in Biology, I began a new and exciting phase as a Ph.D Student. My work at Prof. Ávila´s Laboratory has been funded with two important fellowships from Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) which I was awarded with; an Introduction to Research Fellowship for the first few months and the JAE pre-doctoral Fellowship for a total period of four years. Finally, I got the P.h.D degree in December 2011. From that moment, I have been working as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Jesús Ávila´s laboratory sponsored by a contract from CIBERNED ( “Centro de investigación biomedica en red de enfermedades neurodegenerativas”).
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FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Classics: Ancient Greek History; Ancient Greek Civilization
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PhD in Classical Studies, PhD in Sociology, BA in Classical Philology, Hispanic Philology and Law. He has been Predoctoral Fellow at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2000-2004), Postdoctoral Fellow at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2005-2009) and Humboldt Fellow at Universität Potsdam (2009-2011). From 2011 he is Assistant Professor at the Department of Ancient History of UNED (Madrid). He has been visiting scholar or lecturer at Columbia University, Università di Firenze, CNRS (Paris), Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin), Université Paris-X Nanterre, Freie Universität Berlin, etc. He has received awards such as the "Pastor" Prize for Classical Studies (2005) to his dissertation in Classical Philology (Universidad Complutense) and several prestigious grants –“Juan de la Cierva” (2005), “Jose Castillejo” (2007), “Alexander von Humboldt” (2009), “Ramón y Cajal” (2011), "Beatriu Pinós" (2011), etc.–; he has led, as principal investigator, numerous research projects with public funding. He holds the positions of Coordinator of the Research Centre on Late Antiquity at UNED Segovia, Deputy Director of the Research Group Barbaricum at Complutense University and Deputy Director of the Research Group Koinonia at UNED. More information at http://portal.uned.es/portal/page?_pageid=93,24633958&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
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FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Modern and Ancient philosophy
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Inmaculada Hoyos Sánchez obtained her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Grenade (2011), with a dissertation in which she examined the naturalism and the theory of passions in Spinoza’s thought. She has published numerous articles in Spanish and Italian journals, and participated in many international conferences and seminaries. She has been a member of different collaborative research projects, which have dealt with the idea of philosophy as social therapy, the challenges of nihilism, and the role of reason and passions in the conflict of values.
She has been visiting researcher at the University of Pisa (2007), Paris I- Panthéon Sorbonne (2008) and the École Normale Supérieur de Lyon (2009). She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre Léon Robin des Recherches sur la Pensée Antique. CNRS- Université Paris IVSorbonne - École Normale Supérieur de Paris.
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FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Urban Political Ecology, Water Management, Geography
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Hug March earned a doctoral degree in Environmental Sciences at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2010 with the thesis "Urban Water Management and Market Environmentalism: A Historical Perspective for Barcelona and Madrid" under the supervision of Prof. David Saurí (Department of Geography, UAB). Hug March has been PhD student in the Department of Geography, at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, from 2006-2009, with a scholarship from the Catalan Government. During this period he was visiting PhD student at the School of Environment and Development of the University of Manchester (2007-2008, 5 months), under the supervision of Prof. Maria Kaika (Geography). After obtaining his doctoral degree he was involved in the European project ESPON Climate Change and Territorial Effects on Regional and Local Economies at the Department of Geography (UAB). He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD)/Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in the context of the MAELIA project (RTRA STAE Toulouse). In 2012 he became a postdoctoral research fellow at Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) (Barcelona, Spain), with a Juan de la Cierva contract.
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FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Contemporary British Literature
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Dr. Silvia Pellicer-Ortín is Lecturer at the Department of English and German Philology at the Faculty of Education of the University of Zaragoza (Spain). Before finishing her PhD thesis, Silvia Pellicer-Ortín was a Research Fellow at the Department of English and German Philology since January 2008 to December 2011, after obtaining a four-year national competitive fellowship (FPU) financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science in 2008. Silvia graduated in English Philology at the University of Zaragoza in June 2007, for which she was awarded the Extraordinary Degree Award in March 2009. In September 2008 she obtained the Master’s degree in Textual and Cultural Studies in English after defending with honours the MA thesis entitled: “Intertextuality and the Working Through of Trauma in Eva Figes’ Tales of Innocence and Experience”. And in March 2012 she defended with cum laude her PhD thesis (European Doctorate) on the work of the British-Jewish writer Eva Figes, for which she was awarded the Extraordinary PhD Award of the University of Zaragoza in March 2013. Silvia belongs to the ‘Excellent’ Research Team ‘Contemporary Narrative in English’ led by Prof. Susana Onega, and she has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge and Reading (UK).
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FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Chemical Sciences
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Alexandre Ponrouch is a postdoctoral associate at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (Spain). Prior to joining ICMAB in 2010, He received his M.Sc. degree in Electrochemical Processes from the University Paul Sabatier (France) in 2005, and his Ph.D. in Energy and Materials Science at the Institut national de la Recherche Scientifique (Canada) in 2009.
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FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Computer Science
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David Sánchez Ruenes (Gijon, Spain, 1980), is a temporal Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, where he belongs to the CRISES Research Group, which holds the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy. He received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in 2001 and 2003 (both with Outstanding Graduation Award) and a Ph. D. degree in Computer Science in 2008 from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Cum laude). He was a senior researcher in the K4Care European Research project in 2008 and an invited researcher at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines d’Alès (France) in 2013. He has participated in 4 European research projects and 6 national ones, and has been member of the organising committee of two international conferences. He has authored over 90 publications, including 40 in high quality journals, and has received awards to the best paper and innovation in two international conferences. His h-index is 20.
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FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Nanotechnology
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Dr. Victor Sebastian Cabeza (Aurelio-Julia, Calatayud, Spain, 1978) obtained his Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering at the University of Zaragoza in 2002. After graduation, he collaborated in several research projects, discovering how attractive the Science could be and his motivation for a career in Scientific Research. Between 2004 and 2008, he was awarded with a PhD scholarship from the Educational and Culture Ministry of Spanish Government. In that period he worked at the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department of the University of Zaragoza. During the PhD stage, he enjoyed research stays at the University of Aveiro (Portugal), SINTEF-Oslo (Norway) and Mainz Institute of Microtechnology-IMM(Germany). He obtained his PhD in Chemical Enginering in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Jesus Santamaria, Prof. Joaquin Coronas and Dr. Reyes Mallada, receiving the best PhD student award in Engineering at the University of Zaragoza. During 2008, he was involved as a researcher in a European Project in collaboration of the European Membrane Institute (IEM)-CNRS (France), University of Zaragoza (Spain), and Hyflux-Ceparation (The Netherlands). In 2009 he was awarded by the Bureau of Educational and Culture Affairs of the Unites States and the Fulbright Board, with a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to explore new nanotechnology concepts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the Chemical Engineering Department (USA), under the supervision of Prof. Klavs F. Jensen. After the MIT Postdoctoral stage (2011), he gain and Assistant Professor position at the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department of the University of Zaragoza (Spain). At present, he balances research and teaching duties. His teaching scope comprises graduate and master courses. He is also following a wide variety of courses about “teaching methodologies” to improve his teaching skills.
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FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Chemistry
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Dr. Pedro Serna received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2008 at the Instituto de Technología Química (ITQ). In 2009, he moved to the University of California-Davis as a postdoc, granted with a Marie Curie fellowship. In 2012, he joined ITQ and got a Ramon y Cajal research contract from the Spanish government. Dr. Serna has released over 35 publications in top-ranked scientific journals such as Science, Nature Protocols, Journal of the American Chemical Society or Angewandte Chemie, and is the co-author of 4 patents. His main areas of expertise are catalysis, nanotechnology and spectroscopy. These works have been cited over 1200 times in less than 10 years. Several organizations have recognized the impact of these investigations: Spanish Catalysis Society (Best Thesis 2008), by the company Lilly (V Lilly Awards) and by the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Best Thesis 2008).
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