Vice-rector for Academic Planning
- Vice-rector for Academic Planning: Sergi Torner Castells
Postal address
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Edifici Mercè
Carrer de la Mercè 12
08002 Barcelona
Contact
Phone number: 93 542 20 00
E-Mail: [email protected]
Functions
The vice-rector for Academic Planning shall, under the guidance of the rector, coordinate and oversee the following matters:
- Official bachelor’s and university master’s degrees
- UPF-endorsed degrees and their regulations
- The organization of teaching
- Academic planning
- The promotion of official bachelor’s and master’s degree courses
- Interdisciplinary programmes
Curricula
Bachelor’s degree in Hispanic Studies (1995) and a PhD in Linguistics (2005). He is a tenured lecturer at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences, where he teaches courses on Spanish language and contrastive analysis between Spanish and Catalan.
His research focuses primarily on Spanish vocabulary and lexicography. He has worked on the study of the interaction between grammar and semantics and how it is represented in lexicographical works, especially in dictionaries intended for language teaching and learning. His current main lines of research revolve around lexical neology in Spanish. He is the principal investigator of the Lexicographic Information research group, Infolex. He has published articles in such journals as Probus, International Journal of Lexicography and Signos.
He has been a vice-dean (2010-2013), later dean (2016-2021) of the Faculty of Translation and Language Sciences and vice-rector of Academic Planning in the previous term.