01 December 2022
Virtual campus
The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation has published the final decisions on the Juan de la Cierva (JdC) and Ramón y Cajal (RyC) calls, through which five new researchers will be joining the University of Deusto. The grant recipients have been assessed and selected by expert panels in their areas of expertise and following an international, open, transparent, unbiased procedure based on merits and equal opportunities.
Estefanía Mónaco Gerónimo holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Valencia, where she completed her doctoral thesis with a pre-doctoral contract for the Attraction of Talent of the University Teacher Training Grants call of the Spanish Ministry of Education. Her research focuses on assessment and intervention in emotional competences and well-being in romantic couples. She has also designed, implemented and validated the EMOVERE emotional psychoeducation programme for couples. Estefanía will join the Deusto Family Psych team at the Faculty of Health Sciences as a Juan de la Cierva researcher in December.
Elena Atienza Macías holds a PhD in Fundamentals of Law, Economic Law and Business Law, an inter-university programme run jointly by the University of Deusto, Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE) and Universidad Ramon Llul (ESADE). Her doctoral thesis entitled "The legal and ethical implications of the use of performance enhancing drugs and new doping practices in sport" was supervised by Dr C.M. Romeo Casabona and Dr. A. Emaldi Cirión. Elena has worked as a Juan de la Cierva researcher in the Chair of Law and the Human Genome at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU). In January 2023 she will join the European Integration team at Deusto Law School.
Irene de la Cruz Pavía, holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), where she is currently developing her research line on "processing of grammatical structure throughout life, examining mono and bilingual populations in parallel". Irene is an Ikerbasque Fellow and a JIN Researcher (R+D+ I projects, Spanish State Research Agency) at the University’s Linguistics and Basque Studies Department. She was previously a grant recipient from the Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship and the Basque Government Postdoctoral Fellowship programmes, thanks to which she worked at the National Centre for Scientific Research, the Université de Paris (France), the Infant Studies Centre, University of British Columbia (Canada), and the Dipartimento di Psicologia de Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy). Dr. de la Cruz will join the Communication research team at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences in June 2023.
Sergio Sanabria holds a PhD in Science from ETH Zurich (Switzerland). In January 2021 he joined the Deustek team as a Research Fellow. He is currently working at the Stanford University Department of Paediatric Radiology as a visiting scholar. In March 2023 he will return to the DEUSTOTECH- Institute of Technology at the University of Deusto, where he will combine his Ikerbasque Fellowship with the Ramón y Cajal grant received.
Bilge Yabanci holds a PhD in Politics, Languages and International Studies from the University of Bath (UK). She is currently a Marie Curie Global Research Fellow at Northwestern University (USA) and Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy). Her research interests include political science, sociology and political psychology. Specifically, her research focuses on democratisation and democratic regression, as well as the role of social movements and civil society in these contexts. In the last two years, she has broadened her methodological knowledge and trained in statistical methods at the University of Michigan’s ICPSR. Bilge will join the Ethics applied to Social Reality team at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences.
Our warmest welcome to these five experts. Over the coming months, the Vice-Rector’s Office for Research and Transfer led by DEIKER will share further information about the research and objectives on which this research group will be working at our University.
