Maria Llop Llop is Professor of Economic Theory in the Department of Economics at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and Principal Researcher of the Economic Challenges for the Next Generation (ECO-NEXT) Research Group. His research focuses on economic and environmental impact analyses, energy economics and environmental economics. She has led numerous research projects funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. She has also had an important activity as evaluator of European Union research projects (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe), the National R+D+i Plan (Government of Spain) and the AQU (Agency for the Quality of the University System of Catalonia). Maria Llop has also coordinated and participated in numerous economic and environmental impact studies in collaboration with institutions such as the Port Authority of Tarragona, the Institut Català del Sòl, the Asociación Nuclear Ascó-Vandellòs (ANAV) or the Tarraco Eólica SA. Maria Llop has published in the highest impact journals in the field of environmental economics, energy economics and economic impact analysis, such as Ecological Economics, Energy Policy, Resource and Energy Economics, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Water Policy and Water Resource Management. She has carried out several research stays at the Economic and Social Research Institute (Dublin, Ireland), the Dublin Institute of Technology (Dublin, Ireland) and the Energy Research Institute (Cork, Ireland). Maria Llop has been director of the Chair of Energy and Development (2014-2017), director of the Industrial and Public Economy Research Center of the URV (2010-2013), secretary of the Department of Economics at the URV (2003-2006) and she is currently the Director of the Department of Economics.

Arantxa Capdevila Gómez is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). She holds a Degree in Information Science (Universidad de Navarra, 1993), a Degree in Political Science (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1996) and a PhD in Audiovisual Communication (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2002). She has been Vice-rector for Teaching, Students and University Community at URV (2014-2018). She is a member of Asterisc. Communication Research Group, recognised and consolidated by the Catalan Government.
Her research is focused on political communication, and so she has investigated how rhetoric and semiotics can be applied to political discourse analysis. Capdevila Gómez She has participated in more than 20 research projects/transfer contracts and has been the lead researcher of the R+D project (2013-2016) "The Role of Metaphor in the Definition and Social Perception of Conflict Issues: Institutions, Media, and Citizens [CSO2013-41661-P]". The project investigated how local and global conflictive issues –such as territorial disputes, the EU refugee crisis or climate change– are discursively negotiated using metaphorical frames. She has participated nearly 70 congresses in the field of communication studies, sociology and political science. Regarding scientific production, she is the author of articles in journals catalogued in JCR and SCOPUS and is co-editor and author of books and book chapters indexed in SPI.

Carlota M. Moragas Fernández is Serra Húnter Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. She is an International Doctor in Anthropology and Communication and Principal Editor of the Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies. Her doctoral thesis "Claiming independence in 140 characters" obtained the Special Doctoral Prize as well as being finalist in the II Prize to the best doctoral thesis on Political Communication awarded by ACOP. The researcher –who has been recognized with the accreditation of research (AQU) and with the Profesor Contratado Doctor (ANECA)–, studies aspects related to political communication and discourse analysis, as well as to the changes brought by digitalization into the public sphere and the articulation of public opinion. She has participated in more than 10 research projects/transfer contracts; has presented communications in nearly 30 congresses in the field of communication studies and political science; has been invited to 6 scientific seminars; has been interviewed by local and national media; and has carried out research stays at The University of Edinburgh and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Regarding scientific production, she has authored articles in journals cataloged in JCR and SCOPUS and is co-editor and author of books and book chapters indexed in SPI.

José Manuel Giménez-Gómez is Professor of Economics at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV), Deputy Head of the Research Center on Economics and Sustainability (ECO-SOS) and member of the research group Economic Organization and Decision research(GRODE). He obtained his PhD in 2010 from the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena after pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies at Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena and the Universitat d'Alacant, respectively. Before joining the faculty in Reus, José Manuel spent three years as assistant professor at the Universitat d'Alacant and four as FPI researcher fellowship holder at the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena. He taught at the Universitat d'Alacant and the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena in Economics and Business Administration. His research interests include social choice, games theory and rationing problems. He has published 30 articles, 1 book and 2 book chapters about game theory, social, microeconomics and rationing issues. He has been reviewer in several international impact journals, has been chair, organizer and presenter in more than 50 conferences and workshops, and he has supervised 6 PhD.

Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod (JMAC) is Full Professor of Economics at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV), Chair of the Research Center on Economics and Sustainability (ECO-SOS), vice-Chair of the Research Institute on Sustainability, Climate Change and Energy Transition (IU-RESCAT) and member of the research group Quantitative, Urban and Regional Economics (QURE). JMAC has a Bachelor Degree in Economics (Universitat de Barcelona) and a PhD in Economics (Universitat Rovira i Virgili). JMAC has been Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading (UK), the Dalian Maritime University (China), the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (Romania) and Harokopio University (Greece). His thesis analysed location decisions of manufacturing firms in Catalan municipalities. JMAC has published 61 articles (46 of them in journals included in the Journal of Citation reports), 11 books and 23 book chapters about industrial location, cultural and creative industries and some spatial economic issues. JMAC has published in journals as Journal of Regional Science, Research Policy, Small Business Economics, Regional Studies, Papers in Regional Science, Journal of Urban Technology, Growth and Change, Annals of Regional Science, Review of Industrial Organisation, Journal of Social and Economic Geography, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Environment and Planning A, Journal of Public Health, International Journal of Geo-Information, and Journal of Economic Coordination and Coordination, among others, as well as in publishing houses as Edward Elgar, Routledge, and Springer. JMAC has participated in 21 research projects, has contributed with 117 presentations at conferences and workshops, has taught short courses in several universities (Spain, Romania, China, UK, France, Italy, Greece, Costa Rica), has supervised 8 PhD dissertations and has participated in 14 PhD committees, has participated in the organisation of 71 workshops and conferences, is Associated Editor of Eurasian Business Review, member of the Editorial Review Board of the Small Business Economics journal and , has provided reviews for 35 journals, and has been Guest Editor for Regional Studies, Annals of Regional Science, Journal of Economic and Social Geography, Policy Studies and Empirica. JMAC is Chair of the International Network of Economic Research (INFER), member of the Board of the Council of the Catalan Competition Commission (ACCO), Fellow at the MSH Val de Loire (Tours, France), Le Studium (Orléans, France), and at the Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (IEB), and is reviewer for the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU).

Hatem A. Rashwan received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from South Valley University, Egypt, in 2002 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer vision from Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain, in 2014. From 2004 to 2009, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department, South Valley University, as an Assistant Lecturer. From January 2010 until October 2014, he joined the IRCV Group, Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, as a Research Assistant. From November 2014 until August 2017, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the VORTEX Group, IRIT, CNRS, INP-Toulouse, University of Toulouse, France. Since 2018, he has been a Beatriu de Pinós Researcher with URV. His research interests include image processing, computer vision, machine learning, and pattern recognition.

Saddam Abdulwahab received the B.S. degree in computer science from Hodeidah University, Hodeidah, Yemen, in 2012, and the M.Sc. degree in computer security and artificial intelligence from URV, Tarragona, Spain, in 2017. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2023 from the IRCV Group. From 2012 to 2016, he served as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Hodeidah University. In 2016, he joined the Intelligent Technologies for Advanced Knowledge Acquisition (ITAKA) Group, DEIM, URV. His research interests include image processing, computer vision, machine learning, and pattern recognition.

Domenec Puig received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, in 1992 and 2004, respectively. In 1992, he joined the Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, where he is currently a Professor. Since July 2006, he has been the Head of the Intelligent Robotics and Computer Vision Group, Universitat Rovira i Virgili. His research interests include image processing, texture analysis, perceptual models for image analysis, scene analysis, and mobile robotics.