Rosina Malagrida Escalas

Rosina Malagrida is the head of the Living Lab for Health at IrsiCaixa which is an intermediary structure that supports research groups to increase their impact. In concrete, the Living Lab facilitates multi-stakeholder processes to address complex and persistent health challenges. To do so, she and her team facilitate complementary participatory R&I approaches such as citizen science, Responsible Research and Innovation, transdisciplinary research and systems thinking and systems innovation. She teaches at different undergraduate and postgraduate degrees of the University of Barcelona and other universities, research organisations and innovation agencies and has already trained more than 6,500 researchers and innovators. Previously she worked at the Barcelona Science Park, the science museums of Barcelona and London and the BBC, always with the aim of improving the social impact of science. She has participated as PI in more than 10 EU funded projects related to participatory research approaches during the last 20 years. She has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Barcelona, ESADE, Imperial College London and VU University of Amsterdam, one of them with a scholarship from “la Caixa” Foundation.