ShareThe Governing Board of AQU Catalunya incorporates three new members into the Research Assessment Commission
With their incorporation, the Agency’s highest governing body has replaced three members of the Research Assessment Commission whose mandates were ending.
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At its most recent meeting, held on 11 December 2025, the Governing Board of AQU Catalunya appointed three new members to the Research Assessment Commission (CAR). The Agency’s highest governing body gave the green light for the incorporation into the Commission of two members proposed by the Chair of the CAR.
These are Dr Maria Elena Fernández Gutiérrez, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University Rovira i Virgili, and Dr Olga Jubany Baucells, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona. The third appointment to the CAR was made on the proposal of the counsellor of the Department of Research and Universities, Núria Montserrat Pulido. This is Dr Montserrat Claveria Nadal, Professor of Art History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Dr Maria Elena Fernández Gutiérrez and Dr Olga Jubany Baucells will join the Commission in place of Dr Maria Mercedes Amat Tusón, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Barcelona, and Dr Louise Elisabeth MacNally Seifert, Professor of General Linguistics at Pompeu Fabra University, as both of them are finishing their mandate. The vacant seat will be taken by Dr Montserrat Claveria Nadal following the end of the mandate of Dr Mariano Carbonell Buades, Professor of Art History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
The three appointments will take effect on 1 January 2026.
The CAR, chaired by Professor Maria Pau Ginebra of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, is made up of four people appointed by the Governing Board on the proposal of the minister responsible for universities and sixteen people appointed by the Governing Board on the proposal of the Chair of the Commission.
The CAR’s responsibilities include issuing research and advanced research accreditations, evaluating the activity carried out by researchers — and assessing the individual research merits of teaching and research staff, both tenured and contracted — and evaluating the research activity of teaching and research staff at private universities.