Scientific organizations
Supervision of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows
2023 Hosting and mentoring the Associate Professor Giuseppe Gaballo, on ageing studies. Università degli Studi di Foggia
2023 Hosting and mentoring and international Ph D student, on Spanish Social services and ageing: Caterina Filareti Università del Salento, Italy (01/09/23-20/09/23)
2022 Hosting and mentoring an international postdoctoral researcher: Dr Luca Benvenga. Università del Salento, Italy (1st-30th March 2022)
2017 Hosting and supervising a CONACYT fellowship master’s student from the Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla, BUAP, Mexico (6th March-4th June 2018), URV, Spain
2016 Hosting visiting scholars: Professor Anneli Anttonen from the University of Tampere (17th-26th February 2016) and Dr Sigurveig Sigurdardóttir, Dean of Social Work at the University of Iceland (17th October-1st December, 2016) at URV
2014 Hosting and supervising Gábor Zsüdi from the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia. Fellow of the program Short-Term Scientific Mission from the project COST Action IS1102 Social services, welfare states and places (April 2014)
2024-25 Riccardo Zappatore. University of Salento (Italy). Supervision of his predoctoral secondment on ageing studies at University Rovira I Virgili
Reviewing activities and scientific evaluation
Member of the Advisory Board of the project Rural Digital Care: Fortalecimiento de la inclusión de las personas mayores en los servicios de atención digital en municipios rurales (RuDiCare) (2025-27): Inclusive digital care services in Europe: How can we get there? Funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark Danish Government. University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
Reviewer of High Impact Journals (JCR)
Memberships in scientific organisations
2019- Member of the Research Network European Network of Gerontologic Social Work, EASWR
2018- Research Collaborator at the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (AgeCare) at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland
2004- Associate Member at the Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences. Boston University, MA, US
2013- Member of the European Networking for Housing Research. WG coordinator: Housing and living conditions of Ageing populations
2013- Member of the Medical Anthropological Research Centre, MARC, DAFITS, URV
2022- Board Member of the Catalan Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology part of the Catalan Medical Society
2020-23 Board Member of the Catalan Sociological Association part of the Catalan Institute of Studies
2024- Member of the Catalan Association of Writers
Organisation of scientific meetings
2025-26 Member of the Programme Board of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Internacional Conference 2026. Montreal 26-31 July. C&C: 14th International Conference on Culture and Computing. Please see: https://2026.hci.international/c&c
2025 Member of the Scientific Committee and of the Organisation Committee of the Spanish Conference on Geriatrics and Gerontology (SEGG). Barcelona, 18-20 June.
2025 Organisation of the IX International Colloquium MARC (Medical Anthropology Research Center) Ageing and health: challenges and opportunities in ageing societies. Universitat Rovira I Virgili. Tarragona, 3-5 June.
2025 Organization of the International Lecture of Prof. Takanori Shibata, inventor of the Robot PAR0 at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Tarragona, 26 May.
2025 Scientific Committee Member of the 65th Spanish Geriatric and Gerontologic Association Conference, SEGG, 18-20 June, 2025
2025 IX Colloquium MARC on Ageing and Health: Challenges and Opportunities in Ageing Societies, 4-5 June, 2025.
2024 Interuniversity Ph D Social Work programme Conference. Tarragona, 11-13 November, 2024, URV.
2024 MyRobot Kick-off Meeting on-line with the participation of an international and national team of researchers. 3rd October, 2024
2024-25 Annual Seminar of the Medical Anthropology Research Centre (MARC) on Anthropology and Activism, URV
2023-24 Annual Seminar of the Medical Anthropology Research Centre (MARC) on Anthropology and Ethics, URV
2023 Member of the Scientific Committee of the 27th Conference of the Catalan Geriatric and Gerontologic Association. 16-17 November, 2023
2023 Scientific Committee Member of the 8th Catalan Sociological Association International Conference, ACS, 12-14 July 2023
2022 Coordination of the Working Group on social perspective on ageing at the Catalan Geriatric and Gerontologic Societies
2018 Workshop on co-creation. MARC Colloquium (Medical Anthropology Research Centre). Anthropology in Action: Researching, analysing and responding to new health
2018 Stakeholders’ feedback meeting (SoCaTel H2020 project, GA7869975)/ Spain and participation in co creation workshops (Ireland, Finland, Hungary and Spain)
2016 Conference on Art and Psychiatric diseases. Master on Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology Research Centre, URV.
2017 SoCaTel project Kick-off meeting. URV, Spain
2013 Local Stakeholders Workshop: A good future for older people of tomorrow. COST Action 1102: Social services, welfare states and places. URV, Spain
2012 COST Action 1102: Social services, welfare states and places. Consortium meeting, URV, Spain