Inés Olza Moreno

Inés Olza Moreno is Catedrática de Universidad (Full Professor) at the University of Navarra, where she serves as Senior Researcher in Language and Cognition at the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS).

Education:

• PhD in Spanish Philology, University of Navarra, 2009
  Thesis: Aspectos de la semántica de las unidades fraseológicas. La fraseología somática metalingüística del español
  Supervisors: Dr Ramón González Ruiz & Dr Manuel Casado Velarde

Research Focus: Her work integrates Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics and Multimodality to investigate figurative language, gesture, phraseology and the interactional dynamics of disagreement and mediation. She explores how verbal, gestural and other semiotic resources jointly construct meaning in real-time interaction.

Recent Publication Trends: Over the last five years her scholarship has concentrated on multimodal interpreting, gesture-speech alignment, metaphor in public health discourse and large-scale multimodal corpus analysis. Studies span experimental, corpus and field-based methodologies, often combining quantitative big-data approaches with fine-grained qualitative analysis.

Scientific Awards: None explicitly listed in the provided sources.

Grants & Networks:

• Principal Investigator, MultiDeMe (PID2022-143052NB-I00), Spanish Ministry of Science & EU/FEDER, 2023-2027
• National Coordinator, CoCoMInt Network (RED2022-134123-T), 2023-2025, uniting 11 research teams across 10 Spanish universities

Laboratories & Teams: She directs the Multimodal Pragmatics Lab (MuPra Lab) at the University of Navarra and leads the “Bonds, Creativity and Culture” research group within ICS. She also participates in the distributed Red Hen Lab, the Pamplona node of PRESEEA, and the Iberus cluster Cognition in Action (ICON).