Professors

TEACHING STAFF OF THE “UNIVERSITAT I SOCIETAT”, FIRST COURSE
	Alejandro Pérez Cueva Alejandro Pérez Cueva is a full university professor at the Department of Geography of the Universitat de València. He is Doctor in Geography since 1985, thanks to his thesis entitled ‘Geomorphology of the Valencian Iberian Sector (between rivers Mijares and Turia)’. Since then, he has worked in a great variety of research projects focused in his three main research lines: climatology, interpretation of the physical medium and hydrogeology of historic irrigation methods. He is involved with the territory and geography of Valencia and Teruel’s Iberian sectors; he has written a great number of scientific publications in terms of articles, reviews, collective works and books among which we could highlight ‘Geology for a New Culture of the Earth’, ‘Strong impact of Ornamental Slab Quarries on the Teruel Maestrazgo and the Gudar Mountain Range’, ‘Manual on Physical Geografy’ or ‘The Climate Atlas of the Valencian Community’. As a teacher, he has classes on Climatology, Geography or General Geograpy and Physical Environment, at the Faculty of Geography and History of the Universitat de València.
	Virginia González García Virginia González García is Doctor in Hispanic Studies and professor of Spanish Language at the Department of Spanish Studies of the UV. She is a member of the VALESCO Group and her research has centred on the field of lexicology and historic lexicography with publications on the history of legal lexicography in the 18th Century. He got his PhD with a doctoral thesis titled: "La 'idea de un diccionario universal ejecutada en la jurisprudencia civil' de Gregorio Mayans: léxico y fuentes” (the idea of a universal dictionary developed in civil jurisprudence by Gregorio Mayans: lexicon and sources). Currently, he is studying discourse of the new digital genres and the learning of languages assisted by computers as well as the relationship between language and tourism and teaching Spanish for foreign learners.
	Héctor Hernández Gassó Héctor Hernández is an associate professor at the Department of Language and Literature Teaching at the Faculty of Teacher Training of the UV. Likewise, he is doing his PhD in Advanced Hispanic Studies in our university. His fields of study centre around the development of a web server for medieval literature and around teaching applications of TICs. Within the field of teaching, he is in charge of several subjects within the Degree in Primary Education Teaching. Among his publications, we could highlight the following: "El martiri de Santa Apolonia entre la literatura i la iconografia" or "La cerca del Grial en el cinema negre: El falcó maltés de John Huston".
	Miguel Requena Jiménez Miguel Requena Jiménez is adjunct professor of the department of Antique History and Written Culture at the Faculty of Geography and History of the Universitat de València. He got her PhD in this university with a doctoral thesis titled "La concepción sociológica del poder en el Imperio Romano: los omina imperii” (Sociologic understanding of power in the Roman Empire: the omina imperii) His main research lines centre around the history or Rome and the irrational aspects related the antique concept of power. He has published many research articles in magazines specialised in antique history and, specially, in the Roman imperial times; he has published books such as ‘El emperador pedestriano’ (The pedestrian emperor) or ‘Lo maravilloso y el poder’ (The marvelous and the power). As a teacher, he is in charge of subjects such as History of European Origins, Universal Antique History or Methodology and Historiography for the Degree in History.
	Ricard Camil Torres Fabra Doctor in Geography and History by the UV, he is currently a teacher in that university at the Department of Contemporary History. Since 1988, he turns to oral sources as a complementary tool for his researches, reason why he has taught many courses and been invited to several conferences and workshops to comment on his methodology and application. Additionally, he has published several works on the topic for magazines specialised such as the Revista Sociología del Trabajo or El Contemporani and other publications which are the result of his research for other magazines such as Afers, Ebre38 or Qüaderns de Sueca. Among his publications, we could highlight the following: Valencians sota el franquisme. La Xara. Simat, 2.002. Autarquia i estraperlo (autarchy and illegal trade). L'economia en un espai rural del País Valencià durant el franquisme. Publicacions de la Universitat de València. València, 2.005. Camp i política. la Falange en una comunitat rural valenciana. Afers. Catarroja, 2.005. La repressió franquista al País Valencià. Recull bibliogràfic 3i4. València, 2008.
	Luis Fco. Pascual Calaforra Luis Fco. Pascual Calaforra (València, 1959) is Doctor in Biology (1986) by the UV and professor of Genetics (1991). His interest in university management has lead him to hold positions such as that of secretary (1993-2000) and vice-principal of the Faculty (2000-2003) and between 2006 and 2012, Head of the Department of Genetics. Likewise, he has been Coordinator of the Faculty for European Convergence between 2005 and 2010 and, since 2011, he is Coordinator of Innovation at the Faculty and organized the 2014 BIOGRADO (congress of Biology students at the UV). He has taught subjects both on general topics (Genetics, Citogenetics, Biology), molecular ones (Genetic Analysis Techniques) or evolutionary ones (Introduction to the Theory of Evolution, Tree of Life). His passion for teaching has lead him to coordinate several projects for teaching innovation. We could highlight the teaching document ‘Drosophila’ (1993), the textbook ‘Però que es això de la Genètica? (What is Genetics) (1999) or the volume "Innovació educativa en la Universitat: Biologia" (Teaching Innovations at the University: Biology) (Col·lecció Educació, Informes i dossiers nº5, 2008) He has been awarded with Teaching Excellence (2010) by the Valencian Department of Education and the UV’s Social Council.
	Ricardo Jiménez Ricardo Jiménez is Doctor in Biological Sciences by the UV since 1980. Nine years later, he got his Chair in Zoology (Plague control), and currently works in that position. All his teaching activity has been carried out in the field of Zoology, specifically in Entomology and Control of Plague Vectors, in a lab which he directs himself within the Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva. His research activity centres around: basic research in beneficial insects, applied research in plague control for agriculture and public health, research in biodiversity studies for protected landscapes. He was general director for sustainable development at the Valencian Department for the Environment. He has been responsible of bio-pesticides at the group "Fruits Fly of economic importance” of the OILB and is a member of the Health and Environment Committee, and the Valencian Community Committee to Study Climate Change.

TEACHING STAFF OF THE “UNIVERSITAT I SOCIETAT”, SECOND COURSE
	Virginia Pardo García She is Professor of Procedural Law at the Universitat de Valeància and graduated and doctor in law by this university. She has completed research stays at the universities of Freiburg, Florence, Geneva, New York and London, and teaching stays at the universities of Warsaw (Poland) and Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia). Regarding her research activity, she is author of five monographies in solitary and has been member of sis research projects, five of them about European procedural issues. Nowadays she is principal researcher of the project “Cap a un nou espai europeu de Justícia: reconeixement mutu, aproximació de legislacions i e-justícia”; and she is also Head of Initiative of the Office of the Vice-Principal for Territorial Projection and Participation of the Universitat de València.
	Jesus Olavarría Iglesia Doctor in Law by the UV and professor at the Department of Market Law of the UV. Promoter and member of the IUDESCOOP (UV Institute of Social and Cooperative Economy) He is arbitrator of the Arbitration Tribunal of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Shipping of Valencia and member of the CIRIEC-Spain, as well as of GIPI (R&D group on intellectual and industrial property of the UV). Professor of Mercantile Law since 1980, he coordinates and teaches the subjects of ‘Legislation applied to the Cultural Management’ in the Official Master’s Degree in Cultural Management and of ‘Legislation applied to Biotechnology’ in the Degree of Biotechnology of the UV. He also teaches the subject ‘Intellectual Property’ in the Official Master’s Degree in New Tendencies and Innovation Processes in Communication in the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón, and of the Certificate of Intellectual Property (UV/ADEIT).
	Víctor Agulló Calatayud Víctor Agulló Calatayud is tenure-track 1 professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the Universitat de València, institution where he works since 2006. He is graduated in Social Work and graduated in Sociology from that university. He got his PhD with a doctoral thesis titled “El consum recreatiu d’esteroides anabolitzans: una perspectiva sociològica” (“The recreational use of anabolic steroids: a sociological perspective”). He completed his training in qualitative methodology in the National Development Research Institute in New York. Since then he has focused on different interrelated fields, such as sport, social research, sociolinguistics or drug addictions. Particularly, he has focused great part of his effort in the study of Valencian traditional sports and the lexicon and use of the Valencian in them. In 2010 he got the Prize to the Sporting Merits from the Valencia’s City Hall for the best work of sports dissemination.
	Albert Moncusí Ferré Albert Moncusí Ferré is professor of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Univesitat de Vaència, director of the Interuniversity Official Master’s Degree in Cultural Management (UV/UPV) and professor in the Official Master’s in Co-Development and Migratory Flows (UV) and in the Master’s Degree in Multidisciplinary Intervention for Eating Disorders (UV). He teaches, for more than ten years the subject ‘Food and Culture’ in the degree of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, where he has also directed undergraduate degree final projects. He is author of different texts on Borders and National Identities, Immaterial Heritage, Eating Disorders, Urban Glocalisation and Intercultural Coexistence. He has been main investigator of the project “Arxiu de la Memòria Oral Valenciana. Museu de la Paraula” (Valencian Council, 2002-2005 and 2006-2008) and has participated, among others, in the projects “La inmigración en la Comunidad Valenciana. Situación actual y políticas de integración” (Department of Social Welfare of the Valencian Community, 2004) and “Metrópolis glocalizadas: el caso de Valencia” (R&D National Plan of Spain, 2009-2012).
	Vicente Manuel Claramonte Sanz Vicente Claramonte Sanz is graduated in Law (1991) and Philosophy (2003). Between 2005 and 2007 he became pre-doctoral researcher in training with the Training University Faculty Programme of the Ministry of Education and Science, and between 2007 and 2009, he became a hired researcher by the Universitat de València. He as carried out stays in several foreign research centres, such as the Institut Suor Orsola Benicasa, in Naples, or the Università degli Studi di Padova, which led his research to be published by Editorial Scientifica in the book Storia dei concetti. Storia del pensiero politico (2006). He earned the title of European Doctor in Philosophy from the Universitat de València (2010) with a thesis focused on specific epistemological, historical, sociological and legal issues implicit in the smart design hypothesis. From 2005 he collaborates in teaching and research tasks with the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science of the Universitat de València, developing his task mainly in determined areas of knowledge within Philosophy of Biology. He has published several articles on that subject in scientific journals as Teorema, Endoxa or Teoria i Dret, and he has given different conference cycles about his doctoral research throughout Latin America. He is also author of the book ‘La cientificidad del diseño inteligente’ (‘The scientificity of the smart design’), published in 2009 by the publisher Tirant el Blanch.
	Adrià Besó Ros He combines teaching with the direction of the Museu Comarcal of l’Horta Sud. He has a Postgraduate Degree in Historical-Artistic Heritage Conservation (1994) and is doctor in Art History (2010). He has focused his research labour in rural architecture and industrial heritage, especially in the physical evidences left in the rural landscapes by indutrialisation as a consequence of the adoption of a capitalist agriculture oriented to the market, paying special attention to the oranges groves and wine cellars. He has worked in different agreements and assignment for the public administration and private firms. He has collaborated in the ethnological and industrial heritage of the Valencian Community during almost ten years, under the direction of the Dr Inmaculada Aguilar. He has written reports on the ethnological and industrial heritage in different public works. He has taken part in the pen teams in master plans for several monuments, land-use plannings and territorial action plannings.
	Jorge Sebastián Lozano Graduated in Geography and History, specialised in Art History form the Universitat de València, Jorge Sebastián Lozano is Special Awarded in Llicenciatura (former Spanish undergraduate degree) and got a doctorate in Art History in that university. He has centred his research on the representation of women from the Royal House during the 16th Century. He has presented communications on this topics in European and North-American congresses. Other fields of interest for him include Art History, both institutionally and intellectually, graphic design, Contemporary Art and Aesthetic Theory. His teaching experience covers a wide range of topics, from western traditional classical mythology, texts in contemporary art history and application of TICs in Art History. Likewise, he is head of the Mainel Foundation.

TEACHING STAFF OF THE “UNIVERSITAT I SOCIETAT”, THIRD COURSE
	Ferran Suay i Lerma He is professor of Psychobiology at the Universitat de València since 1990, his research line is focused on human being responses to different types of stressing situations, including sport competitions, speaking in public or in a minoritised language. Before that, he earned his living teaching judo. Judo left on him the pleasure of fighting, and a strong tendency of saving unnecessary efforts. The university activity left on him the interest for mechanisms that explain how and why things work and the clear consciousness that students are younger each year. He is a member of the Institut de Política Lingüística d’Acció Cultural del País Valencià, one of the founders of the Valencian Psychology Society, and president of Tallers per la Llengua.
	Esperanza González Bono Esperanza González is tenured university professor at the department of Psychobiology of the Faculty of Psychology of the Universitat de València. She became a doctor by this university with the thesis “Efectos del estrés sobre los niveles de testosterona y cortisol en deportistas” (Stress effects on testosterone and cortisol levels in athletes). As a researcher she focuses on the study of psychoendocrinology and psychoimmunology of chronical stress. Indeed, she develops at the area of neurosciences the projects “chronical stress in populations at high-risk” and “Emotion, neuroendocrine activation and execution”. In her teaching task she teaches in the Degree in Psychology, and in the Master’s Degrees in General sanitary psychology; Specialisation in speech therapy intervention; and Basic and applied neurosciences.
	Alicia Salvador Fernández-Montejo Alicia Salvador Fernández-Montejo is full university professor of Psychobiology at the UV since 2002. She has a Degree and Doctoral Degree in Psychobiology within this University and she is also Graduated in Education Sciences. Most of her research has been focused on the biological basis of social conduct, in animal and human research. During this las period, the main subjects of study are focused on the social stress effects on the cognitive function, paying attention to the associate neuroendocrine, cardiovascular and affective changes, and analysing the chronic and acute stress situations. This is complemented with the animal research studies, on the neuroadaptations derived from the exposition to stress and psychoactive substances. She also directed research projects uninterruptedly since 1990, she directed 16 doctoral thesis, and published more than one hundred articles in scientific journals of her specialisation. Nowadays she is dean of the Faculty of Psychology.
	Salvador Gil-Pareja He is graduated and doctor in Economic Sciences and Business from the Universitat de València (Special Award in both cases) and got a Master’s Degree of Science Economics from the University College London. Since 2009 he is full university professor of Applied Economics in the Universitat de València. He has been visiting researcher in the Foundation for Studies in Applied Economics (FEDEA), in the RCC of the Harvard University (USA), in the Inter-American Development Bank (USA), in the World Bank (USA) and in different Spanish universities. Also, he has participated as a main researcher in many competitive research projects and is author of several book chapters and articles published in renowned international journals such as European Economic Review, Review of International Economics, Economics Letters, The World Economy, Oxford Economic Papers, Review of World Economics, Journal of Applied Economics, Regional Studies or Papers in Regional Science, among others. He has been treasurer and elected member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Association of International Economics and Finance (2005-2011) and since 2006 he is associated editor of the Revista de Economía Aplicada. Nowadays, his research line focuses in the field of the promotion of the exportations in the study of the impact of the financial crisis and of the preferential agreements on trade.
	Silviano Esteve Pérez SILVIANO ESTEVE PÉREZ (Enguera, 1970), graduated in Economic Sciences and Business from the Universitat de València (Special Award), Master’s Degree and PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick (United Kingdom), is tenured professor of Applied Economics in the Universitat de València (Department of Economic Structure). His research mainly focuses in the field of Industrial Economy and International Economy. His research focuses on the creation and destruction processes of business, the survival determinants of the enterprises in the export market. Furthermore, he has participated in different research projects and his work has been published in international renowned journals such as International Journal of Industrial Organization, Small Business Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Economic Inauiry, Review of Industrial Organization, Empirical Economics.
	Jorge Navarro Pérez Jorge Navarro is adjunct professor of the Department of Medicine of the Universitat de València. He got his PhD in this university with the doctoral thesis “Los orígenes de las neurociencias en España” (“The origins of neurosciences in Spain”). Since then he has developed a research task in the field of history of science and medicine which he combines with his labour as a family and community practicioner. Furthermore, he teaches at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of the Universitat de València of primary health care and geriatrics in the Degree in Medicine. He has a Master’s Degree in Direction and Organisation of Hospitals and Health Services from the Universitat Politècnica de València. He is member of the Cardiovascular Group of the PAPPS (Programme for Preventive Activities and Health Promogion), the Diabetes Group of the SEMyC (Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine) and the groups of Cardiovascular Disease and Primary Health Care of the Spanish Diabetes Association; and coordinator of the Diabetes Group of the SVMFyC (Valencian Society of Family and Community Medicine), among other functions.
	Carmen Gómez Cabrera Carmen Gómez is graduated in Sport Sciences from the Universitat de València and obtained the special award of llicenciatura (former Spanish undergraduate). She is doctor of the Department of Physiology of the Universitat de València and in 2003 she got the doctorate special award. She has carried out 3 stays in foreign centres (University of Southern California, University of Wisconsin, University of Liverpool) in research groups linked to the study of the skeletal muscle, the free radicals and the physical activity. Her teaching labour started on 2000 and she is currently tenured professor of the Department of Physiology of the Universitat de València. Her researchers deal with the oxidative stress associated to the physical exercise and the important role of the reactive oxygen species in the skeletal muscle. She has over 65 scientific publications, she is regular collaborator in international renowned journals and has directed 11 doctoral thesis.
	Ana Lloret Alcañiz Ana Lloret is tenured professor of the Department of Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of the Universitat de València. She got her PhD with a thesis titled “Papel del estrés oxidativo en el envejecimiento y en la enfermedad del Alzheimer” (“Role of the oxidative stress in ageing and in Alzheimer’s disease”) from this university. Since then, she has developed a fruitful research career in medical physiology where it is very important at a national level the publication “Implicaciones genéticas en la longevidad: análisis multigénico en el macho y en la hembra” (“Genetic implication in longevity: multigenic analysis in males and females”). She is professor of general, human and medical physiology in the Degrees in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences and in Medicine; she is also professor in the master’s degree in Physiology and in the master’s degree in Research, Treatment and Associated Pathologies in Drug Addictions.
	Juan Francisco Ascaso Gimilio Juan Ascaso is graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the Universitat de València. He is doctor in Medicina and Surgery from the University of Murcia and Medical Specialist in Internal Medicine and Medical Specialist in Endocrinology and Nutrition. Besides, he is full university professor of the Department of Medicine of the Universitat de València. Currently he is Head of Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition in the Hospital Clínic Universitari of Valencia and coordinates the pre-obesity and cardio-metabolic risk programme in INCLIVA (Institute for Health Research). As a researcher he has participated in over 35 research projects, 20 of them as a principal investigator. Also, he is a researcher in RETICS (Networks for Cooperative Research in Health) and he directs the group CIBERDEM (Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders). He has directed 22 doctoral thesis in the Universitat de València and has published numerous books and monographs. He has published over 250 articles in scientific journals.
	Consuelo Borrás Blasco Consuelo Borrás is graduated in Pharmacy from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Universiat de València. She got her European PhD in the department of Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of this university with the doctoral thesis titled “Importància de l’estrès oxidatiu en les diferències de longevitat entres mascles i femelles” (“Importance of oxidative stress in the differences of longevity between male and female”). The main result of which was the finding of the protector role of oestrogens in females before the oxidative stress. During her doctorate, she carried out a pre-doctoral stay in London in The Centre for Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine of the King’s College of London. After that, she carried out a post-doctoral stay in the National Centre of Oncological Researches in Madrid, under the direction of the Dr María A. Blasco, expert in telomers and telomerase. She also collaborated with the Dr Manuel Serrano in the identification of new genes associated to longevity, such as p53 and telomerase. In 2005 she joined the Valencia Catholic University as a professor and was the responsible for the doctoral programmes and of the office for transfer of research results. In 2008 she went back to the Universitat de València as a tenure-track 2 professor of the Department of Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine. Currently, her scientific interests are focused on the study of factors associated to the extreme longevity of centenarians.
	Vicente Garrigues Gil Vicente Garrigues is tenured professor of the Department of Medicine of the Universitat de València. He combines his professional dedication to the health care, to research and teaching. As a researcher he has developed a long trajectory in the study and analysis of the diseases of the digestive system such as irritable bowel or chronic constipation. He is professor of pathology of the digestive system in the Degree in Medicine of the Universitat de València. Also, he is head of section in the Unit of Digestive Functional Tests in La Fe Hospital of Valencia. He combines the different aspects of his professional life as Teaching Director of this hospital. Furthermore, he is Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of the Universitat.
	Ana María Botella Nicolás Ana María Botella Nicolás is doctor in Pedagogy from the Universitat de València. She is graduated in Geography and History, Musicology specialisation and teacher in Music Education, from the University of Oviedo. She has the Profesisonal Degree in Piano. She belongs to the multidisciplinary research group GRIEMAL, whose main interest it the work from a multidisciplinary optic in the classroom, focused specially in artistic disciplines such as Cinema, Animation and Opera. She has presented different communications in events and conferences on musical audition didactics, music history, and Moors and Christians music, as well as numerous courses on this topic. He is member of the Pedagogic Coordination Committee of the University Master’s Degree in Secondary Education Teaching of the Universitat de València. She is professor of the Department of Teaching of Musical, Visual and Corporal Expression of the Faculty of Teacher Training of the Universitat de València.