TEam members
[Alfonso Sánchez-Moya]
Project coordinator | PI
PhD in English Linguistics (Complutense Madrid | VU Amsterdam). His research explores linguistic mechanisms employed to represent social groups at risk (such as female survivors of partner violence in the UK or undocumented immigrants in the US), paying special attention to digital environments. His research is methodologically influenced by techniques and tools in corpus linguistics (such as sentiment analysis) and qualitative explorations of data. More info: www.alfonsosanchezmoya.com
[Satu Venäläinen]
Project member
PhD Social Sciences (University of Helsinki). She currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, discipline of social psychology. Her research interests include gender, sexual harassment, intersectionality, violence, identities, and affects. Theoretically and methodologically, she is interested in social constructionism, discourse analysis, feminist discursive psychologies, poststructural theory, affect theory, and creative research methodologies in qualitative research. Her current research project is entitled "Young people and sexual harassment: meanings and intersectional negotiations in diversifying socio-cultural contexts". More info here.
[Claudia Roberta Combei]
Project member
PhD in Linguistics (University of Pisa), where she specialized in phonetics, corpus linguistics, and SLA. She defended a doctoral dissertation on human perception and computational processing of foreign-accented speech. From 2018 to 2021 she worked at the University of Bologna, as a Post-Doc Researcher, Teaching Tutor, and NLP Lab Manager. Currently she is a Junior Assistant Professor (RTD-A Researcher) in Linguistics at the University of Pavia. More info here
[Agnieszka Seweryn]
Project member
PhD in Translation and Intercultural Communication (Jagiellonian University). Assistant at the Department of Translation Studies. She works as a freelance translator (PL-RU) and cooperates with a large literary publishing house as a reviewer of foreign-language publications.
[External members | Advisors]
Lucia busso
She currently works as a Post-Doc Researcher at the new Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics in Birmingham (UK). Her research interests are in the fields of Usage Based approaches (especially Construction Grammar), Forensic linguistics and Empirical methods in linguistics
Rusten Menard
He is a sociologically oriented critical social psychologist who joined the University of Portsmouth in August 2018, shortly after completing his PhD at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His work is inspired by social semiotics, feminist, queer and intersectional theory, critical discourse studies, and critical realist ontologies. He has methodological expertise in critical discourse analysis inspired by systemic functional linguistics, and positioning theory.
Belén fernández-garcía
She currently works as a Post-Doc Researcher at the University of Málaga (Spain). Her PhD focused on the ideological feautures of populist parties in Western Europe and the electoral scenarios favourable for this type of political actors. Her current research focuses on the discursive and ideological characteristics of populist and radical right parties. She has also investigated the presence of hate speech on social media, as well as media coverage of radical and populist actors
Javier fernández-lópez
Currently a postdoctoral researcher at Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive | Complutense Madrid. He is broadly interested in conservation biology and phylogeography, particularly in the integration of different methodologies like ecological niche / agent-based modeling with phylogenetic approaches.
Web Site here
Verónica cruz-alonso
She is a postdoctoral researcher in ecosystem restoration and Teaching Associate in Landscape Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, University of Harvard. Her PhD focused on Mediterranean forest recovery and restoration in old fields. Currently her research is focused on forest resilience. She is especially interested in general forest ecology and hydrology and ecosystem multifunctionality.
martin gajec
MA in Arabic Studies, MA in History, PhD in Literary Studies (Jagiellonian University). Since 2013, he has been working at the Department of Arabic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Jagiellonian University. His research interests focus mainly on the Middle East. He specializes in the history of the Crusades seen from the Eastern perspective. He also deals with the subject of borderlands of cultures at the meeting point of Muslim and Christian civilizations.