Professors and Researchers

Silvia Aparicio Obregón

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

Academic and professor’s vice-chancellor. PhD in Economics by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Academic Director of Business and Management. Director of the Economics and Business Cabinet of the Prof. Office Ramón Tamames.

Silvia Pueyo

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

Director and lecturer in the Languages and Education Department at UNEATLANTICO. Degree in Translation and Interpreting, UAB. Master's Degree in Spanish as a Foreign Language Teacher Training, UB. Master's Degree in Linguistics Applied to the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language, UJA. PhD in Educational Sciences, Language Teaching programme, UB, with the doctoral thesis "Self-regulatory processes in the development of a training portfolio. Case study in an online teacher training programme for teachers of Spanish as a foreign language". More than twenty years of experience in the training, coordination and techno-pedagogical design of postgraduate teacher training programmes for teachers of English and Spanish as a foreign language, and in the field of education.

Susana Pulgar

Faculty of Health Sciences

Graduated in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences in A Coruña. Master's Degree in Sports Training and Nutrition and Doctorate from the European University of Madrid. Has coached several national swimming teams and has been part of research teams at EMU and the Gasol Foundation. Has written several scientific publications in the field of physical activity and health. Has created a company specialized in physical exercise for the elderly and has written business projects related to physical exercise and health.

Thomas Prola

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

PhD in Education Sciences from the University of Barcelona (UB). Master's Degree in Education and Teaching in a Virtual Environment. Teacher and Researcher in the field of Education and Technology, he coordinates or manages European research and development projects related to the training or educational field, ICT-Social Networks, Diversity in School, children in situations of social vulnerability.

Thomas Widmann

Faculty of Health Sciences

D. in Biology from the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics at the University of Dresden. He has published the results of some of his research in prestigious journals such as JCS, Current Biology and Genome Research. He was awarded the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) fellowship and the Marie-Curie fellowship. His research interests have been in cell structure, the nervous system and hereditary cancer.

Vanessa Anaya

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

D. in Educational Sciences from the Universitat de Barcelona, Master in Training of Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language (Universitat de Barcelona) and Degree in Translation and Interpreting (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities.