Scientific Committee

Scientific Committee

B·Debate. Scientific Committee

The B·Debate Scientific Committee is made up of prestigious experts and scientists from a variety of fields of science in Catalonia.
 
The members of the Scientific Committee are in charge of selecting the proposals to be included in the B·Debate yearly calendar of activities, acting in the best interest of the country’s scientific community and basing their selection on the highest degree of excellence, driving talent and innovation on the cutting-edge of knowledge.

They are also responsible for monitoring the execution of the activities carried out over the year and advising the B·Debate governing bodies on operational aspects, the lines of science to follow and potential alliances and synergies with other initiatives and organizations.

BDebate

  • Rosina Malagrida

    IrsiCaixa
    Head of Living Lab for Health
    Barcelona, Spain

    Rosina Malagrida has a degree in chemistry from the University of Barcelona, Spain, a master’s in science communication from Imperial College London, UK (with a scholarship from “la Caixa” Foundation) and has run a programme for Strategic Communication at the business school ESADE.
    She is...

  • Josep Samitier Martí

    Associació Catalana d’Entitats de Recerca (ACER) and IBEC
    President
    Barcelona, Spain

    Josep Samitier Martí, President of the Catalan Association of Research Centres (ACER) and Director of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Barcelona, Spain.
    Full Professor of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering. Electronics Department. Faculty of Physics. University of...

  • Alvar Agustí

    Hospital Clinic de Barcelona
    Director of the Respiratory Institute
    Barcelona, Spain

    Prof. Alvar Agustí is currently Director of the Respiratory Institute at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona (www.hospitalclinic.org), and Professor of Medicine at the University of Barcelona. His main research interests is about clinical and translational...

  • Antonio Huerta

    ICREA
    Director
    Barcelona, Spain

    Antonio Huerta is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTECH. He obtained a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1987. He has held numerous visiting positions, in particular at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (Ispra), Ecole...

  • Albert Sorribas

    Universitat de Lleida - Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida (IRBLLEIDA)
    Professor of Statistics and Operations Research
    Lleida, Spain

    Full Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of Lleida and at the Institute for Biomedical Research of Lleida (IRBLLEIDA). Vice-chancellor for Scientific and Technological Policies of the University of Lleida since 2011. Research activity in mathematical modeling of...

  • Ernest Giralt Lledó

    Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)
    Chemistry Programme Head
    Barcelona, Spain

    Ernest Giralt is professor of organic chemistry at the University of Barcelona (UB) in Spain and he is also group leader of a research group in the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) where is also the head of the chemistry and molecular pharmacology programme.
    He has...