The team

POSTCOVID-AI raises from the synergy between Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Psychology professionals. Click on the pictures to learn more about us!

Oresti Banos (PI)

Oresti Banos

I am a Telecommunications Engineer, Electronics Engineer and PhD in Computer and Network Engineering from the University of Granada (UGR). I am currently a Tenured Professor affiliated with the Research Centre for Information and Communication Technologies of the University of Granada (CITIC-UGR). My research focuses mainly on the study of human behaviour through the use of intelligent technologies. POSTCOVID-AI represents an unparalleled personal and collective challenge to better understand how the pandemic is affecting us as well as to use this new knowledge to develop new strategies to alleviate the serious psychological, social and economic effects of this crisis.

Carlos Bailon

I am a Electronics Engineer and MSc in Data Science from the University of Granada. I am currently finishing my PhD in the Research Centre for Information and Communication Technologies of the University of Granada (CITIC-UGR). My research focuses on using mobile technologies to capture the human behaviour and the context surrounding us. Therefore, POSTCOVID-AI represents a unique opportunity to use this knowledge and contribute to understand how the recent events are affecting us mentally and socially.

Miguel Damas

I am a computer engineer and associate professor at the University of Granada. I currently lead the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology at the University of Granada and the research group CASIP (TIC-117). I have always been interested in applying my computer knowledge to solve real problems in different fields, such as industry 4.0 and especially e-health in recent years. Specifically, with this interdisciplinary project we are encouraging the use of ICT to help quantify and analyze automatically the psychological health of the population in times of the pandemic.

Carmen Goicoechea

I have a degree in Psychology and I'm a PhD student at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Granada. Among my main interests are a better understanding of the nature of our affective system, as well as to study its dynamics by implementing an alternative to the traditional approach. I'm convinced that collaboration between professionals from different disciplines allow to accomplish higher goals. I see in this project the opportunity to combine scientific knowledge for people's wellbeing.

Pandelis Perakakis

I am associate professor of social and differential psychology at the Complutense University of Madrid. My research focuses on the study of the variability of complex systems such as the heart, the brain and, recently, the human affect system. The POSTCOVID-AI project represents an opportunity to understand which aspects of everyday life are most relevant to people's subjective well-being and how we can foster psychological resilience to overcome adverse circumstances such as those resulting from the current pandemic.

Héctor Pomares

I have a degree in Electronics Engineering, a degree in Physics (specializing in Electronics) and a PhD in Electronics Engineering in 2000, all from the University of Granada (UGR). Currently, I am a full university professor in the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology and I coordinate the Doctoral Program in Information and Communication Technologies at the UGR. My main interest is to apply my knowledge of machine learning, server engineering and programming languages to help solve real problems in any field.

Ciro Rodriguez

I have a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science from the Universidad Central de la Villas. I am currently a PhD candidate in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) program at the Center for Research in Information and Communication Technologies of the University of Granada (CITIC-UGR). Throughout my research and teaching career I have been involved in the Artificial Intelligence field, specifically in topics related to machine learning applied to healthcare. In my doctoral research I use data from patients with Diabetes Mellitus, captured through mobile and wearable technologies, to find patterns and behaviors that provide a better lifestyle to those people. That is why participating in POSTCOVID-AI is an exceptional opportunity to apply my knowledge to improve the physical, mental and social well-being of the population by applying Artificial Intelligence techniques to data obtained through mobile technologies.

Daniel Sanabria

I studied a degree in Psychology at the University of Granada, to then start my research career with a PhD in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford (UK). This project brings the opportunity to apply the lab-based knowledge to a natural context, in an exceptional situation with serious consequences to our well-being and to the way we interact with the world that surrounds us. We hope that the results of our research will provide valuable information to comprehend the impact of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic in the Spanish population.

Claudia Villalonga

I have a Master's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, a Master's Degree in Management of Organisations in the Knowledge Economy from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies from the University of Granada. I am currently a lecturer at the University of Granada. I am the former Director of the Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence at the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja. My research lies in the field of artificial intelligence and knowledge engineering, with a strong focus on the use of machine learning, modelling and ontological reasoning for the identification of human behaviour. POSTCOVID-AI poses an exciting challenge for me to apply artificial intelligence to automatically analyse the effects of this pandemic which is radically changing our lives.