Diana Berruezo-Sánchez.
Judith Domínguez.
The results of the European Research Council's Consolidator Grants were published today. These grants fund projects conducted by research with an experience from seven to twelve years since they got their doctorate. Researchers Diana Berruezo-Sánchez and Judith Domínguez Borràs received this prestigious grant which will fund their research projects.
Diana Berruezo-Sánchez is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Faculty of Philology and Communication of the University of Barcelona. She has received a 1.77 million euros grant to do research on "the cultural legacy of sub-Saharan diaspora in the Iberian Peninsula during the 16th and 17th centuries". The Cultural History of the Black African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain project (BADEMS) merges disciplines such as cultural history, literature, linguistics and Black Studies to "challenge the understanding of Europe's past", says Berruezo, who adds: "It will share the silenced history of the tangible and immaterial cultural heritage to which black cultural agents contributed through their songs, dances, performances, stories and other artistic expressions". With this aim, it will build a unique open-access file that will "gather the contributions of black women and men in literary and linguistic culture of the 16th and 17th century Spain".
Judith Domínguez Borràs, tenure-track 1 lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and member of the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB (UBNeuro), will study the existence in humans of a potential neural pathway for detecting dangers that would connect the auditory system with the tonsil, the main structure of fear processing. The project Uncovering the human subcortical pathway for auditory threat detection (HumanSUBthreat), funded with 1.9 million euros, aims to join "the auditory system in the current models of emotional processing, which would help to understand some clinical conditions currently known to be related to a dysfunction in the visual homologue pathway, such as anxiety or schizophrenia".
In this Consolidator Grants call, a total of 321 researchers have been selected for a global funding of 657 million euros.
