The people
Team
The research team behind GroWinApp, at the University of the Balearic Islands.
Maria Balle
Principal investigator
Maria Balle is the mother of two school-age girls and a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Balearic Islands. Her main line of research focuses on the temperamental and emotion regulation factors associated with the development of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents, and on their prevention.
Jordi Llabrés
Principal investigator
Jordi Llabrés teaches behaviour therapy in childhood and directs the Behaviour and Technology Lab at the University of the Balearic Islands. He is interested, in this order, in how people behave and in the relationship between technology and human behaviour. He is the father of a son and a daughter who “are grown up now but were little once”.
Alfonso Morillas
Alfonso Morillas is a permanent lecturer in the Department of Psychology, specialising in emotion regulation and emotional disorders. He is passionate about writing in all its forms and a firm believer in film, literature, music and theatre as means of meaningful learning.
Fede Leguizamo
Fede Leguizamo is a psychologist and entrepreneur. He studied at the UIB, the University of Salamanca and California State University. A sports enthusiast, Fede combines his profession with playing rugby for Toro RC.
Patricia García
Patricia García is an intensive care nurse and an emergency psychologist. She studied at the UIB and has worked in public healthcare. She now lectures at the UIB, where she shares her experience with her students. She is also the mother of two teenagers who are now putting her experience and training to the test.
Maria Àngels Ollers Adrover
Maria Àngels Ollers Adrover holds a degree in Psychology and completed the Master's in General Health Psychology at the UIB. She volunteered in England on youth mental health prevention and has worked with several social organisations in the Balearic Islands on suicide prevention. Research has always interested her, which is why she is now working and studying for a PhD within the GroWinApp project's line of research.
Lisa Sophie Gölz
Lisa Sophie Gölz holds a degree in Psychology from the UIB and is currently studying for the Master's in General Health Psychology. In Germany she worked in psychological research and in psychotherapy units specialising in personality disorders, as well as at a psychological counselling centre for children, adolescents and families. In Mallorca she combines her master's studies with volunteering at Projecte Home Balears, an organisation that supports people with addiction problems, and at the RANA Foundation, which works to prevent child abuse and child sexual abuse.
Joana Vidal Frisk
Joana Vidal Frisk holds a degree in Psychology from the UIB and for some years has been the school counsellor at a primary school, where she enjoys supporting children and their families in their learning and social-emotional development. She combines this work with the second year of the Master's in General Health Psychology, to broaden her training in healthcare.
Victòria Copoví Gomila
Victòria Copoví Gomila, the eldest of six siblings and a lover of sport and music, holds a degree in Psychology from the UIB and is currently in the second year of the Master's in General Health Psychology. She has volunteered and trained in several areas of child and adolescent psychology. During her first year of the master's she held a SOIB Research and Innovation grant, which allowed her to join the GroWinApp project, where she still works today.
Núria González Bennasar
Núria González Bennasar holds a degree in Psychology from the UIB and is currently studying for the Master's in General Health Psychology. Her eagerness to learn led her to volunteer supporting patients and their families with the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC), to take many courses in psychology and, finally, to join the GroWinApp project. She also enjoys outdoor sports and body combat.
Rebeca Le More Rodríguez
Rebeca Le More Rodríguez holds a degree in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Madrid and is currently in the second year of the Master's in General Health Psychology at the UIB. She is interested in child protection, specifically in foster care and adoption.