Professor of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a member of GRISS-UAB


She is a professor of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a member of GRISS-UAB (Research Group on Image, Sound, and Synthesis). This excellence group was recognized by the Government of Catalonia in 1994. 

Her academic career revolves around research in emerging areas of journalism and audiovisual communication. She has obtained funding as a national lead in a European project UE/IDATE “Frequency Band Forum DAB in Europe” in 1992 and as a lead researcher in investigations in the USA, England, and Australia. Additionally, she secures funding for training professionals in cutting-edge ICT sectors, including from the European Social Fund, the Media Programme, and the H2020 Pace-Net Plus Project (Pacific-Europe Network for Science, Technology, and Innovation) as a national expert. 

She participated as an external evaluator in research projects of the Sixth Framework Programme – FP6, Information, Society, and Technologies, and in the Seventh Framework Programme – FP7, Knowledge & Content Technologies. 

She was the president of the Spanish Association of Communication Research (AE-IC) (2019-2024) and president of the Catalan Communication Society (2009-2014). She has been a researcher in various competitive projects from the Women’s Institute; the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness; the Ministry of Science and Innovation; the Ministry of Education and Science; and the Ministry of Education, among others. 

She participated in the creation of a UAB spin-off, Muf Laboratori d’Imatge, Art i Animació, S.L. 

She has been a visiting professor and researcher at various international universities, including RMIT (Australia); University of Melbourne (Australia); University of California at Berkeley; and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago, Chile. 

In 2004, she received, along with other researchers, the XVI Research Award from the Audiovisual Council of Catalonia.