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Blanca Arias-Badia, PhD in Translation and Language Sciences (UPF, Barcelona), is a tenure-track lecturer at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She is a member of the TraDiLex research group (UPF), an external collaborator of TransMedia Catalonia at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and a member of the network AccessCat. She is the principal investigador of the project UnivAc, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Spanish Research Agency, and the European Union. Her publications include the single-authored monograph Subtitling Television Series (Peter Lang, 2020).
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1218-986X
Email: blanca.arias@upf.edu
Anna Matamala, PhD in Applied Linguistics (UPF, Barcelona), is a full professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is the leader of Transmedia Catalonia research group and of the network AccessCat and has participated (DTV4ALL, ADLAB, HBB4ALL, ACT, ADLAB PRO, IMAC, TRACTION, Mediaverse) and led (AVT-LP, ALST, VIW, NEA, EASIT, RAD) funded projects on audiovisual translation and media accessibility. She received Joan Coromines Prize in 2005, APOSTA Award to Young Researchers in 2011, Dr. Margaret R. Pfanstiehl Memorial Achievement Award in Audio Description Research and Development in 2021.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1607-9011
Email: Anna.Matamala@uab.cat