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Luis Botella Garcia Del Cid is a Full Professor at the Department of Psychology and Speech Therapy, Faculty of Psychology, Educational Sciences and Sports, Ramon Llull University. His work focuses on therapeutic alliance, constructivism, and clinical psychology. University: Ramon Llull University School: Faculty of Psychology, Educational Sciences and Sports Department: Psychology and Speech Therapy Email: lluisbg@blanquerna.url.edu His research spans therapeutic alliance, psychometrics, constructivist approaches, and clinical psychology. He investigates therapist personal style, team solutions in psychotherapy, and adolescent interactions with social media influencers. His recent projects include ACM Psicopersona and Proceso Terapéutico funded by AGAUR. Key publications (2022-2023) address dyadic coping during the pandemic, fuzzy cognitive mapping in clinical supervision, and teamwork in psychotherapy. Articles span interdisciplinary collaborations across 27 countries with a focus on psychological distress and relationship quality. He collaborates with the Psicopersona research group and participates in systems-thinking-based clinical models. His work integrates constructivist theory with practical applications in therapeutic contexts and adolescent digital behavior.

• Therapeutic Alliance
• Clinical Psychology
• Constructivism
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Tania Fernández Villa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of León. Her primary academic affiliation centers on preventive medicine and public health research within the GIIGAS (Interactions Gene-Environment-Health) research group. Her research spans nutritional epidemiology, gender studies in food systems, substance use disorders, and chronic disease prevention. Key focus areas include alcohol consumption patterns among university students (via the UniHcos cohort), sarcopenia in metabolic syndrome, breast cancer risk factors, and pandemic impacts on health behaviors. Her work integrates longitudinal cohort analysis, systematic reviews, and psychometric validation studies. Recent publications demonstrate strong trends in gender-disaggregated health research, pandemic-related behavioral shifts, and methodological innovations in dietary assessment. Her 2024-2025 output shows increasing emphasis on environmental sustainability of diets and multi-cancer risk prediction models. She serves on the editorial board of the Spanish Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, contributing to strategic planning (2020-2026) and open science initiatives. Her PhD from Universidad de Granada focused on ICT usage patterns among university students. Current projects include the UniHcos longitudinal study tracking health behaviors in Spanish university students, with particular attention to alcohol use, sleep patterns, and nutritional status. Her research group actively investigates gene-environment interactions in public health contexts.

• Preventive Medicine
• Public Health
• Nutritional Epidemiology
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Devin G. Pope is the Steven G. Rothmeier Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. His research examines psychological biases in economic decision-making using observational data across diverse markets including healthcare, voting, transportation, and consumer behavior. Pope has published extensively in top economics journals (American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics), general science publications (Science, Nature), and interdisciplinary outlets (Management Science, Psychological Science). His research interests bridge behavioral economics and psychology, focusing on vaccination incentives , racial bias measurement , consumer decision heuristics , and observational data analysis . Recent work leverages smartphone data to study religious attendance patterns, voting wait times, and geographic mobility. Pope's research methodology emphasizes real-world field experiments and large-scale observational datasets to identify psychological biases affecting economic outcomes. Notable scientific contributions include: Co-editing the American Economic Review Amazon Scholar appointment (2019-2021) Robert King Steel Faculty Fellowship Steven G. Rothmeier Professorship Pope advises PhD students and teaches graduate courses including Behavioral Economics and Workshop in Behavioral Science. His research has received significant external funding for pandemic response studies and behavioral interventions. Pope maintains active research collaborations across economics, psychology, and public health disciplines through the Booth School's research centers and workshops.

• Behavioral Economics
• Psychology-Economics Intersection
• Observational Data Analysis
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Maria Rosa Rifà Ros is a Lecturer in the Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy at the Blanquerna School of Health Sciences, Universitat Ramon Llull. She is an active researcher with 52 publications spanning from 1993 to 2025 and maintains an h-index of 5 with 46 citations. Her research expertise centers on nursing education, primary health care, nursing diagnosis, and immigrant health. Dr. Rifà Ros employs diverse methodologies including cross-sectional studies, qualitative approaches, and systematic reviews to investigate nursing student experiences, pandemic impacts on healthcare education, and health disparities among vulnerable populations. Her fingerprint analysis shows strong focus areas in Nursing Diagnosis (100%), Immigrant Health (94%), and Nursing Student experiences (68%). Recent publications reveal a consistent trajectory examining healthcare inequalities, clinical education environments, and pandemic-related transformations in healthcare delivery. Her work spans both Spanish and international contexts with particular attention to vulnerable populations and healthcare system responses to emerging challenges. Dr. Rifà Ros has been actively involved in the Global Research on Wellbeing (GRoW) project as a researcher from 2017-2021 and continues in this role from 2022-2025, funded by the Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR). This sustained research commitment demonstrates her dedication to advancing knowledge in health and wellbeing. She has mentored numerous nursing students and collaborated extensively with colleagues including Carrillo Alvarez, Rodríguez Monforte, Salinas Roca, and Costa Tutusaus on research examining healthcare systems, student experiences, and health inequalities. As a key member of the Global Research on Wellbeing group, Dr. Rifà Ros collaborates with an interdisciplinary team across various health science disciplines, contributing her nursing expertise to address complex health challenges through research that directly impacts clinical practice and healthcare education.

• Nursing
• Primary Health Care
• Nursing Education
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David de Sancho Sánchez is a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) in Spain. His research employs computational methods to study protein dynamics, folding mechanisms, and biomolecular interactions, with a focus on quantitative comparisons between theory, simulation, and experimental data. Education & Training: Biophysical Chemistry training at San Pablo CEU and Complutense Universities PhD under Antonio Rey at Complutense University Postdoctoral work with Victor Muñoz (Spanish Research Council) and Robert Best (University of Cambridge) Research Focus: David's work spans protein folding landscapes, metal-binding proteins, mechanical unfolding, and phase separation. Recent investigations include amyloid-beta aggregation, titin mechanics in cardiac disease, and computational drug design for cancer and neurodegeneration. His methodologies integrate molecular dynamics, Markov state models, and force spectroscopy simulations. Scientific Awards: Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (UPV/EHU) Ikerbasque Research Fellowship (CIC nanoGUNE) Affiliations: He leads computational research at UPV/EHU's Theoretical Chemistry Unit and collaborates extensively with experimental groups at DIPC, focusing on protein engineering and disease mechanisms.

• Protein Folding
• Biomolecular Conformational Dynamics
• Computational Chemistry
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Dr. Jose R Juan Sanchez is a full Professor at the Faculty of Law, Universitat de València, specializing in Procedural Law within the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Science (ICCP). He serves in the Administrative Department and leads the NCPJ New conflicts and judicial process research group. Doctorate in Law (1997) from Universitat de València Thesis: Autonomous Communities as Parties in Civil Proceedings Supervised by Dr. Manuel Ortells Ramos His research focuses on procedural law, judicial management, and legal reforms. He investigates tribunal jurisdiction, victim rights, and data protection in criminal proceedings. Recent work includes Photovoice analysis of pandemic healthcare systems and efficiency in Spanish criminal justice. Key article trends span judicial reforms (2015-2024), victim rights in EU legal frameworks (2020-2023), digital justice systems (2016-2017), and social justice in legal education (2022-2023). His work bridges law, criminology, and policy analysis. Current affiliations: Universitat de València, ICCP Institute Research group: NCPJ New conflicts and judicial process

• Procedural Law
• Criminology
• Criminal Justice Reform
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María del Pilar Berrios Martos is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Jaén, Spain, specializing in Social Psychology with a focus on emotional intelligence and organizational dynamics. Education: PhD in Psychology, University of Granada (2001). Thesis: "Effects of congruence between personality style and task type on performance and satisfaction" supervised by Dr. José Miguel Ángel García Martínez. Research Focus: Her work examines emotional intelligence across educational and workplace contexts, including gender differences in team dynamics, leadership effects on performance, and well-being predictors. She develops assessment tools like the Video-Test of Emotional Intelligence for Teachers (ViTIED) and conducts cross-cultural validations. Publication Trends: Recent work (2020-2025) emphasizes meta-analyses of emotional intelligence in education, transformational leadership comparisons between public/private sectors, and Chilean scale validations. Methodologies include structural equation modeling and time-lagged designs. Research Group: Leads "PSYCHOSOCIAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR IN THE FACE OF THE NEW SOCIAL REALITY," investigating behavioral adaptations to contemporary social challenges through systematic reviews and empirical studies.

• Social Psychology
• Emotional Intelligence
• Organizational Behavior
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Gomez Melis, Guadalupe is a Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), affiliated with the GRBIO research group (Bioestadística i Bioinformàtica) and the Department of Statistics and Operations Research. She collaborates with the Institut de Recerca i Innovació en Salut (Health Research Institute) and the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics (FME). Her work focuses on biostatistics, survival analysis, multistate models, and clinical trial design, with significant contributions to understanding disease progression and outcomes, particularly in pandemic-related studies. She has supervised doctoral theses and leads various research projects funded by EU and national grants. Her research spans statistical methodologies for healthcare data, including censored data analysis and adaptive clinical trial designs. Key activities include leading over 450 research outputs, including articles in high-impact journals like Biostatistics and BMC Medical Research Methodology , and collaborations on projects like the EU-funded Siemens Energy AI Chair initiative. Her work often integrates statistical modeling with real-world health data, addressing challenges in infectious disease dynamics, elderly patient care, and genomic analysis. Notable contributions include developing the GofCens package for goodness-of-fit methods and the MSMpred interactive tool for predicting patient trajectories via multistate models. She actively participates in international conferences and serves on scientific committees, demonstrating her role in advancing biostatistical methodologies globally.

• Biostatistics
• Epidemiology
• Survival Analysis
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Mateo Valero Cortés is a renowned Professor of Computer Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He has held academic and leadership roles since 1974, advancing high-performance computing (HPC) and computer architecture research. His work includes pioneering contributions to vector architectures, multithreading, and instruction-level parallelism. Education includes a Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (1974) and a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (1980). His research spans over 700 publications, focusing on HPC systems, parallel computing, and supercomputing infrastructure. Key research interests include vector processing, super-scalar processors, and task-based programming models. Recent work emphasizes scalable architectures for exascale computing and energy-efficient hardware-software co-design. Notable achievements include the Eckert-Mauchly Prize (highest in computer architecture), Seymour Cray Award, and Charles Babbage Prize. He has led initiatives like the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) and PRACE (European HPC partnership). Academic affiliations include the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain, ACM Fellow, and IEEE Fellow. He has received 13 honorary doctorates and awards such as Mexico’s Order of the Aztec Eagle. Current projects include the Mont-Blanc HPC prototype and ERC-funded research on multi-core chip design. His BSC oversees over 300 researchers and manages MareNostrum supercomputers.

• Computer Architecture
• High-Performance Computing
• Parallel Computing
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Silvia Jiménez Fernández is an Associate Professor in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her research focuses on optimization algorithms, smart grids, renewable energy systems, telemedicine, and machine learning applications. She holds a Ph.D. from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2009), supervised by Dr. Francisco del Pozo Guerrero and Dr. Paula de Toledo Heras. Her work integrates interdisciplinary approaches, such as combining evolutionary algorithms with engineering challenges in energy systems and healthcare. Key contributions include advancements in coral reefs optimization algorithms for energy management, machine learning for battery health estimation, and telemedicine systems for chronic disease monitoring. Recent research trends emphasize hybrid learning models in education, multi-objective optimization in renewable energy systems, and risk analysis in smart grids with electric vehicles. She is affiliated with the GHEODE Research Group (Modern Heuristics and Network Design).

• Optimization Algorithms
• Smart Grids
• Renewable Energy Systems
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Ernesto Herrera Pedroviejo serves as an Associate lecturer at the Blanquerna School of Health Sciences, Ramon Llull University (URL) in Barcelona, Spain, with an active research profile in emergency medical systems. Contactable via ernestohp1@blanquerna.url.edu and ORCID 0000-0002-4163-4558, his scholarly impact includes 62 citations and an h-index of 4 per Scopus metrics, reflecting contributions to life-saving healthcare innovations. His research centers on Emergency Medicine with specialized expertise in Basic Life Support (BLS) , Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) , and technology-integrated medical training. Key investigations include comparative analyses of resuscitation devices (pocket masks vs. bag-valve masks), augmented reality applications for BLS instruction via smart glasses, and novel approaches to aquatic emergency response. His work bridges clinical practice with digital innovation, particularly through video communication systems for dispatcher-assisted bystander interventions and biomechanical assessments of postural stability. Publication trends from 2020-2025 reveal a strategic focus on pilot studies evaluating real-world feasibility of emergency response tools. Dominant themes include technology-enhanced medical education (evident in 2023 AR training studies), device optimization for field use (2020 flotation device research), and advanced resuscitation techniques (2025 mask comparison study). This trajectory demonstrates consistent methodological emphasis on simulation-based validation and human-factor analysis in high-stakes emergency scenarios.

• Emergency Medicine
• Basic Life Support
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
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Gonzalo Francisco Fernández Suárez is a Professor at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Santiago de Compostela. He is affiliated with the Institute of Studies and Development of Galicia (IDEGA) and the ATALAIA Research Group. His academic career includes a doctoral thesis titled La nobleza gallega entre los siglos XIV y XVI, los Sarmiento, Condes de Ribadavia (2002), supervised by Dr. José García Oro. His research focuses on medieval and early modern Galician history, particularly nobility structures, municipal archives, and educational systems. Key topics include the Galician nobility, administrative practices of municipalities like Lugo and Mondoñedo, and the role of education in the early modern period. He has explored historical documentation, including notarial records and royal concessions, contributing to understanding Galicia’s socio-political dynamics. His work also extends to cultural management and the application of innovative methods in historical studies. Publications highlight his expertise in Galician nobility, early modern religious practices, and municipal governance. Recent work analyzes educational systems and cultural initiatives in Galicia. No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned in the provided texts. His academic contributions include studies on the Ribadavia Counts, archival methodologies, and the intersection of history and modern academic programs. Dr. Fernández Suárez’s research integrates interdisciplinary approaches, combining historiography with practical applications in education and cultural policy, reflecting his commitment to both scholarly inquiry and societal relevance.

• Medieval History
• Galician Studies
• Historical Documentation
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Francisco B. Ortega (Fran) is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Sports Sciences of the University of Granada, Spain . He serves as co-director of the PROFITH research group and co-heads the Physical Activity and Health Promotion Research Unit at the Joint University Institute of Sport and Health (iMUDS). His academic journey includes dual PhDs in Exercise Physiology (University of Granada) and Medical Sciences (Karolinska Institute) and postdoctoral work in Sweden and the USA. PhD, Exercise Physiology - University of Granada PhD, Medical Sciences - Karolinska Institute His research focuses on: Physical fitness assessment and accelerometry Exercise effects on cardiovascular, mental, and brain health Wearable technology applications in sports science Obesity prevention via physical activity Longitudinal health outcomes from adolescent fitness Recent publications highlight trends in global fitness norms , exercise interventions for coronary patients , pediatric obesity prevention through VR , and brain-cognition relationships in children . He received the prestigious Ramón y Cajal Research Fellowship and has led high-impact studies like the ActiveBrains and AGUEDA trials.

• Physical condition evaluation
• Accelerometry-based physical activity assessment
• Exercise effects on cardiovascular health
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Alberto Maydeu Olivares is a Professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Universitat de Barcelona, within the Faculty of Psychology. He leads the Violence, Behavior, Individual differences and Technology Studies (WITS) research group. His expertise spans psychometrics, structural equation modeling (SEM), and item response theory (IRT). He holds a Licenciatura in Psychology from the Universitat de Barcelona (1988), a Doctorat in Quantitative Psychology from the same institution (1991), and advanced degrees from the University of Illinois, including a Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology (1997) and masters in Mathematical Statistics and Quantitative Psychology. His research focuses on improving psychological measurement methods, evaluating model fit in SEM/IRT, and addressing methodological challenges in behavioral data. Notable projects include NSF-funded work on SEM fit indices (2017–2020) and AGAUR-supported studies on IRT applications (2014–2017). He teaches advanced courses like Multivariate Analysis and Structural Equation Models at the master’s level. Maydeu Olivares has authored influential papers on goodness-of-fit assessment, causal effect estimation via instrumental variables, and forced-choice test design. His work bridges statistical rigor with practical applications in psychology, addressing issues like faking in assessments and common method bias. He actively contributes to methodological advancements, emphasizing transparent and robust statistical practices.

• Psychometrics
• Structural Equation Modeling
• Item Response Theory
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Alfredo Mayor is a Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), specializing in Malaria and neglected parasitic diseases. His research employs a discovery-oriented approach focused on Mozambique, combining genomic tools, epidemiological methods, and clinical trials to develop malaria surveillance strategies. Core principles include advancing scientific knowledge, prioritizing programmatic needs through National Malaria Control Program collaborations, translational host-parasite biology research, and capacity building in endemic regions. Research focuses on: Cost-effective malaria stratification for interventions Intervention efficacy assessment Early parasite threat detection Transmission reservoir targeting National surveillance capacity expansion His publications demonstrate consistent focus on genomic surveillance, molecular diagnostics, and epidemiological modeling of malaria in Mozambique. Articles frequently address the intersection of malaria with other infectious diseases like HIV and COVID-19, emphasizing public health applications in resource-limited settings.

• Malaria
• Neglected Parasitic Diseases