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Diana Marre

Diana Marre obtained her PhD with special award at Universidad de Barcelona in 2000.

She was Ramón y Cajal researcher (2008-2010). She has been Associate Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona since 2010 and sits on the PhD Committee of the Social and Cultural Anthropology Department. She has been Coordinator of the Master’s Degree and PhD Programme of the Department, Coordinator of the common modules of the Official Master’s Degree, Member of the committees that drew up the report on the Inter-university European Master’s Degree in Anthropology (CREOLE) and the Official Master’s Degree of the Department of Anthropology; Vice Dean of Degree Studies and Quality Manager and Coordinator of the Internal Guarantee System of the School of Philosophy and Arts at the same university.

She has been Lead Researcher on various individual and coordinated projects since 2007. She has organised various international conferences and international symposia. She has been a reviewer for ANEP and FIS (Spain); NWO (Netherlands); ERC (EU); ESRC (UK); FWO (Belgium); National Research Foundation (South Africa); CIESAS and Colegio de Chihuaha (Mexico); Central European University (Hungary); CONICET (Argentina) and for various national and international publications.

She has been a guest professor at various universities and international institutions: University of the West of England (2017-2022); Columbia University (2017); L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2016); Birkbeck College, U. of London (2016); Esc. Nac. de Ant. e Hist., Mexico (2014).

Director of various FPI, FPU and FI grants; of various doctoral dissertations in Anthropology, Clinical Psychology and Social Psychology; Dissertations on Official Master’s Degrees, European Inter-university Master’s Degrees and Inter-disciplinary Master’s Degrees in Migration; and Anthropology Degree Dissertations.

She is Director of the AFIN Research Group that was set up in 2005, recognised by UAB in 2012 and by AGAUR as a Consolidated Research Group in 2017.

She organised, coordinated and participated in talks and communications at various national and international conferences, symposia and panels.
She set up and managed between 2009 and 2018 the first 100 editions of Publicación AFIN (transfer, monthly, free, online, in Catalan, Spanish and English, and open access at the UAB Library).

Since 2015, she has been running the AFIN Lab for Scientific-Technical Services emerging from results of research projects on Human Reproduction (comparable to a technology company) at UAB.

In December 2019, she received an ICREA Academia prize dedicated to supporting and partially financing her research activities for five years.
Since 2020, she has been coordinating the WP focused on analysing socio-cultural aspects of clinical application of the programme entitled Artificial Placenta: Interdisciplinary Programme for the development of an experimental prototype, evaluation of the impact on foetal programming and development and clinical application financed by Fundación La Caixa and coordinated by Dr Eduard Gratacós from Universidad de Barcelona and has been taking part in the project entitled Austerity and Altered Life-Courses: Socio-Political Ruptures to Family, Employment and Housing Biographies Across Europe financed by UK Research and Innovation coordinated by Dr Sarah M. Hall at the University of Manchester.

She has published approximately 50 articles in indexed publications, two of them in publications ranked among the top ten in the discipline during their year of publication; 32 chapters; 1 monographic book, 4 editions; 1 monographic title edited with 30 articles, 2 under way; 3 articles under review; and 3 chapters in the press.

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