Full Professor of Communication Theories at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). He was researcher at the Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies (Indiana University), at the Center for the Study of Communication and Culture (Saint Louis University) and at the Centre d'Études sur l'Actuel et le Quotidien (Université René Descartes, Paris V). He is the coordinator of the research group UNICA [ http://unica.upf.edu/]. He had published more than hundred papers and eleven books. Some of these books are: La construcción de la noticia (Paidós, 2005) and La comunicación intercultural (Anthropos, 1999). [ http://argos.upf.edu/CawDOS/jsf/principal/principal_upf.jsf?limpiar=S&elmeucv=N].

Research lines

- Intercultural communication; 
- Communication and violence; 
- Communication and emotions; 
- Communication Theories.