mbaranan@ucm.es

Margarita Barañano Cid holds a PhD in Sociology and is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology III at the Complutense University of Madrid. She has researched the spatial dimension of the impact of globalisation, studying the formation of multicultural neighbourhoods, as well as transnational households and families, and, more recently, the multi-scale reconfiguration of social reproduction and care, and vulnerability, participation and citizenship, applied to the case of Madrid. Another of her lines of research is related to transnationalism "from above", analysing the social responsibility of large transnational companies in a context of globalisation, uncertainty and risk. She has also dealt specifically with the social responsibility of universities and the sociology of the university's student body.

sporrass@ucm.es

Sara Porras Sánchez is a Professor of Sociology and researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid. She holds a degree in Political Science and Administration with a double major in Political Analysis and Latin America. She holds a Master's degree in Human Rights for developing countries from IEPALA and the UCM and is currently completing her doctoral thesis in the area of urban studies and gender. She has carried out a research stay at the Gino Germani Institute of the University of Buenos Aires. Her main lines of research are urban studies and feminist theory and criticism. She is the author of several publications and collaborates with different media.

albertoriesco@ucm.es

Alberto Riesco Sanz holds a PhD in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid with a thesis on the so-called "ethnic economies" and the incorporation into the labour market of the immigrant population (Extraordinary Doctorate Award, 2009-2010). He is currently Associate Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies at the UCM, although he has previously worked as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Salamanca, the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Spanish National Research Council. He has also been a visiting researcher at the University of California at Davis (USA), the Université Paris-Ouest (France) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium).

jasantia@cps.ucm.es

José Santiago is a Professor of Sociology at the UCM and holds a PhD in Political Science and Sociology. He is a member of the TRANSOC Institute and has been a visiting researcher at several higher education institutions in France (ENS-CMH; Paris Descartes-CERLIS; EHESS-CADIS; Paris VII-LCS) and Canada (UQAM; UdeM). He is currently researching on individualisation, sociologies of the individual, inequality and vulnerability. On this last topic, he coordinates the research project of the National Plan "New forms of socio-existential vulnerability, support and care in Spain", in which most of the members of GRESCO are working. His most recent books are "El desafío sociológico hoy. Individuo y retos sociales (with Danilo Martuccelli, CIS, in press)", and "Siete lecciones de sociología de la religión y del nacionalismo (Anthropos, 2015)".

martadom@cps.ucm.es

Marta Domínguez Pérez holds a PhD in Sociology and is a Professor of Urban Sociology as well as coordinator of the ERASMUS MUNDUS Master "4 cities" (UCM). Coordinator of the urban sociology working group of the FES. Director of the UCM journal "Society and childhoods" and of the master's degree in Social Policies of Childhood (UCM). She has published on the cultural dimensions of the city and integration, urban regeneration, socio-spatial segregation, public space, social inequality, urban identity and image, vulnerable groups, tourism, strategic planning, etc. She has directed the project funded by the Comunidad de Madrid VUPACI (Vulnerability, participation and citizenship) and currently has an R&D project on vulnerability and housing. She had previously worked in local government (1987-2002).

dsorando@ucm.es

Daniel Sorando Ortín holds a PhD in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid (Extraordinary Doctorate Award), where he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sociology. His research interests are social inequality in contemporary cities, residential segregation and gentrification processes. Co-author of "First we take Manhattan. The creative destruction of cities" together with Álvaro Ardura and author of several book chapters and scientific articles in different national and international publications. He has also worked for different public administrations in the study of youth's social situation.

puceda@ucm.es

Pedro Uceda Navas holds a PhD in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid, where he is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Sociology. He focuses his research on the Right to the City and processes of vulnerability in today's city, of which he has published and presented at national and international conferences. He has also carried out two stays and participated in research projects at the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) and at the UCM.

Emilio Martínez Gutiérrez holds a degree in Political Science and Sociology from the UCM and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Alicante. Professor of the Department of Sociology VI in the Faculty of Information Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid. During his professional career he has been a researcher for several institutions: University of Alicante, Ramón Margalef Multidisciplinary Institute of Environmental Studies, Université René Descartes (Paris V - Sorbonne), Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Centre Max Weber (Université de Lyon II). He wrote his doctoral thesis on the Urban Sociology of Henri Lefebvre, and his main lines of research have been organised around the Sociology of Space and the City.

PhD Architect - Department of Urban and Territorial Planning. ETSAM-UPM

Specialist in the complex and evolving nature of urban and territorial systems and landscape and the role of planning from that perspective, and the city as a space of conflict, inequality and difference, as well as planning for complexity and resilience in situations of uncertainty: crises, catastrophes and conflicts.