Roger Cuartielles Saura

Roger Cuartielles is a professor and pre-doctoral researcher at the Department of Communication, where he is a member of the Research Group on Political Communication, Journalism and Democracy (POLCOM-GRP). He is also the academic coordinator of the master's degree in Political and Institutional Communication of the UPF-BSM. Graduated in Journalism (UPF, 2017) and Humanities (UPF, 2019), has a master's degree in Communication Research (UPF, 2022), a master's degree in Journalism and Digital Communication: Data and New Narratives (UOC, 2022), and a master's degree in Education of the Faculty (UVic, 2021). Before becoming a researcher and teacher at the UPF, he was an associate professor at the University of Barcelona (2018-2022) and the Universitat Ramon Llull-Blanquerna (2021-2022). He also gave lectures at universities such as the Carlos III of Madrid, the Polytechnic of Valencia,

His lines of research focus on disinformation and the fact-checking phenomenon linked to artificial intelligence, as well as crisis communication and political communication. Currently, he is a member of two competitive research projects led by the UPF in these areas: COMCRISIS and FACCTMedia. It is also part of the Platform for Media Education of Catalonia of the Audiovisual Council of Catalonia (CAC), and collaborates with the anti-disinformation platform Learn to Check as a transfer initiative. In the field of journalism, he has worked in media such as the newspaper Ara and Europa Press; in magazines such as Time Out Barcelona, ​​and in numerous local media. He has also collaborated with the Bofill Foundation.

He was appointed by the rector on March 30, 2023.