Research - Our Team

Joana Porcel-Carbonell, PhD in Neuropsychology, University of Barcelona; Clinical Psychologist.

She has worked as a clinical neuropsychologist at the Traumatic Brain Injured Association (1996-2002), and at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital of Barcelona, as a psychologist and researcher at the Multiple Sclerosis Unit (1996-2006).

From 2006 onwards, she works on research management, first at the pharma sector (2006- 2009), on project management, monitoring, GPCs training, scientific writing, and contract negotiation. In 2009, she moved to the Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, integrated with ISGlobal in 2016, where she leads the Projects Unit. Her main responsibilities are on Strategic planning and policy development; Scientific agenda management; External evaluations coordination, Ethical issues - GSP and Personal data protection. Regarding to Ethics and Integrity, she provides support to researchers on ethics issues. She is an ethics advisor in EU projects and collaborates with the European Commission as an independent ethics expert since 2019 for several agencies and funding schemes (REA; HADEA, ERC, IHI, EIC, MSCA).

Regarding personal data protection, she coordinates a dedicated working group at the institution since 2017 for the adaptation and follow-up to the GDPR requirements. She was appointed as the ISGlobal Data Protection Officer in 2018. She teaches on the implementation of ethics and data protection in various national and international courses and masters, as well as develops outreach activities with secondary and high school students on these topics.

She is member of the ISGlobal Direction and Scientific Committees, as well as the ISGlobal Committee for Good Scientific Practices and the Compliance Committee. She is also a representative member at the PRBB Good Scientific Practices Working Group. She is very involved in European Association for Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA).

She was a core member of the Ethics and Research Integrity Officers Network (ERION) from 2018 to 2022 and its chair from 2023 to 2025. She is currently an elected member at the EARMA Board (from September 2025).