INSEAI Network

0000-0002-0039-5036

  isabel.novo.corti@udc.es

Full Professor of Economic Analysis, Department of Economics, University of A Coruña. Member of the inter-university research group ECOBAS and director of the University Institute of Maritime Studies, coordinator of the Research Group on Economic Development and Social Sustainability (EDaSS) (UDC) and collaborator of the SET-LASE research group on socio-economics of labour, at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Her research is focused in socio-economics, technology and sustainability, labour market, ICT and gender. She also works in the field of maritime studies. She has numerous scientific publications in international journals indexed in WoS and SJR, as well as contributions in books and book chapters in the most prestigious international publishers. Visiting researcher at the Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (USA), University of Oxford (UK), among others. She has received several international research awards. She has participated in national and international research projects. Currently Principal Researcher for the UDC of the European INSEAI project on informality in the labour market. Previously, she has worked in the private company UNION ELECTRICA FENOSA (currently NATURGY).

0000-0003-0950-0012

  amparo.alonso.betanzos@udc.es

Full Professor (Catedrática de Universidad) in the Department of Computer Science and Information Technologies at the Universidade da Coruña (UDC), where she is also an affiliated researcher at the CITIC – Centre for Information and Communications Technology Research and coordinator of the LIDIA research group (Laboratory for Research and Development in Artificial Intelligence). She holds a degree in Chemistry (1984) and a PhD in Physics (1988) from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. She pursued postdoctoral research at the Medical College of Georgia (USA), focusing on expert systems for medical applications. Her research spans Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, with active lines in scalable and explainable machine learning, sustainable AI, and agent-based modeling. She has published over 200 articles in international journals and conferences, participated in more than 60 competitive research projects at regional, national, and European levels, and supervised 10 doctoral theses. She served as President of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA) from 2013 to 2021, and is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM. In 1998 she was awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science fellowship — the first Spanish woman to receive it. In 2020 she received the María Josefa Wonenburger Planells Prize from the Xunta de Galicia, and since October 2023 she is a Corresponding Academician of the Real Academia Española de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales.

0000-0002-5761-771X

  a.larranz@udc.es

Holds a Law degree from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and a PhD in Law (Derecho Público Especial) from the Universidade da Coruña (UDC), where she defended her doctoral thesis on vocational training in the naval sector (2014). She is currently an Associate Professor (Profesora Titular de Universidad) in Labour Law and Social Security at the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Labour Sciences, UDC. She is a member of the EDaSS – Economic Development and Social Sustainability research group and has participated in national and international research projects, including the European INSEAI project on labour market informality. Her research covers labour markets, social security, gender equality, maritime law, new technologies, and social policies.

0000-0001-8901-5441

  berta.guijarro@udc.es

Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the Universidade da Coruña (UDC) and a researcher at the CITIC – Centre for Information and Communications Technology Research. Holding a PhD from the UDC, her research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, with active lines in machine learning (scalable, distributed, online, federated, and privacy-preserving), multi-agent systems, agent-based modeling, and knowledge-based systems. Her recent publications include contributions to Expert Systems with Applications (2026) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2025). She serves as a peer reviewer for leading international journals such as Artificial Intelligence, Information Fusion, and Information Sciences.

0000-0003-1657-2815

  matias.membiela@udc.es

Doctor in Economic and Business Sciences from the University of A Coruña. Specialist in Foreign Trade and International Marketing by CEPADE – Polytechnic University of Madrid. Professor in the Area of Marketing and Market Research at the Universidade da Coruña and is a member of the research group iMARKA (UDC) and the interuniversity research center of Galicia ECOBAS. He is also co-editor and co-director of Redmarka. Revista de Marketing Aplicado. His research lines are linked to marketing and social capital; he has published articles in various international journals indexed in WOS/JCR and Scopus, and has published books in different roles: as author, co-author, coordinator, and editor. He has participated and continues to participate in various national and international research projects, both competitive and non-competitive.

0009-0000-2115-5608

  ignacio.picatoste@udc.es

Ignacio Picatoste Novo is a PhD student at the Universidade da Coruña (UDC) and Associate Professor at the Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio (UAX) in Madrid, Spain. He holds a Law degree from UDC (2016), a Master's in Law from Pontificia Comillas (ICADE), a Master's in Global Business Law from ESADE, and a Master's in Tax Consultancy from UDIMA. His research focuses on taxation, labour markets, technology, and maritime law, with recent publications on taxation and informality in labour markets, technological innovation and decent work, and public austerity policies. He has also developed a professional career in leading firms including EY (Ernst & Young) and KPMG.
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0000-0002-9058-9044

  j.pnovo@udc.es

Associate Professor of Economic Analysis in the Universidade of A Coruña, Spain. His research is focused on labour market, technology and sustainability. PhD in Economics from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Master in Migration from the University of A Coruña and Master in Education from the Valencia International University, he has been a recognised student at the University of Oxford, has developed his work as FPI researcher at the Autonomous University of Madrid and, subsequently, at the University of A Coruña. He has also taught at Erasmus+and has been a guest lecturer at foreign universities. As a member of the working team, he currently participates in international research projects (EU-MSCA-Horizon) with several European and Latin American universities and national research projects of the National R+D+I Programme with the University of Malaga.He has also participated as a leading researcher and collaborator in several knowledge transfer projects. He has published in relevant journals and publishers worldwide, according to his indexation in JCR (Q1) and SPI (Q1). He is a member of the research group EDaSS (Economic Development and Social Sustainability-Universidade da Coruña) and the University Institute of Maritime Studies (Instituto Universitario de Estudios Marítimos - IUEM) of the UDC, collaborating member of the research group SET-LASE (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).

0000-0003-1371-1453

  felix.blazquez@udc.es

Félix Sergio Blázquez Lozano holds a PhD and is a Professor of Marketing at the Universidade da Coruña, where he develops his teaching and research activity in the Area of Marketing and Market Research. His academic work focuses on brand value analysis, communication, sectoral studies, education, and information and communication technologies applied to marketing.

He is the author of several scientific publications and actively participates in research projects related to economic development and social sustainability, within the framework of academic groups and networks such as the INSEAI Network.