2018_10_17_ICS_madariaga
Five researchers from the University are on a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study abroad. Education
Rosalía Baena, Eduardo Bayo, Miguel García-Valdecasas, Jesús López Fidalgo, Miguel Ruiz Canela and Miguel García-Valdecasas are assigned to centers in the U.S., Canada and Denmark.
PHOTO: Elena Beltrán
Five researchers from the University of Navarra have been awarded grants by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport for stays in academic centers abroad. They will travel to the USA, Denmark and Canada to work on topics related to literature, medicine, architecture, statistics and Philosophy.
Rosalía Baena, dean of the School of Philosophy and Letters and collaborator of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), has been at Boston College (USA) since July this year, where she will be until the end of December 2018. Her project focuses on the 'Narrative of empathy and contemporary autobiography on illness and disability', with the goal to lay the instructions of a monograph.
Miguel Ruiz-Canela, professor of the School of Medicine, develops his stay in those same dates in the School of Public Health TH Chan of Harvard (Boston). There he is working on a project on Omics and diabetes in the Predimed plus study. Specifically, his research combines metabolomics, genomics and microbiota to better understand the mechanisms that explain the effect that per diem expenses and physical activity have on the prevention of diabetes subject 2. It is a study co-directed by Dr. Frank Hu, director of the department of Nutrition in Boston; Miguel Angel Martinez-Gonzalez, of the University of Navarra; and Jordi Salas, of the University Rovira i Virgili (Reus).
Eduardo Bayo, professor at the School of Architecture, will stay at the department of Structures of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) between April and June 2019. He will develop the project 'Use of deformation modes for the characterization of 2D beam-column joints in steel Structures '.
Jesús López Fidalgo, director of the ICS Statistics Unit, will be between July and September 2019 at the School Science at the University of Alberta (Canada). There he will work on 'Application of the theory of design Robust Experiments to Active Learning classification models'.
Miguel García-Valdecasas, professor at the School of Philosophy and researcher of the group 'Mind-brain' of the ICS, will do research at the department of Anthropology at the University of Berkeley (USA) between June and December 2019. His project will be entitled 'Teleology and emergence in complex dynamical systems: under what conditions is organismal purpose conceivable?'.