Research interests

• Law and technology
• Conflict management
• Mobile technologies
• Crisis mapping
• Social media
• Crowdsourcing
• Ethics

• 2002 Ph.D. Stanford University (Stanford Law School, J.S.D.)
• 2000 Master Stanford University (Master Program in International Legal Studies)
• 1994 GradDip Political Sciences and Sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona
• 1992 GradDip Law, University of Barcelona

Memberships and Associations

• 2011 United Nations Online Volunteer
• 2011 Scientific Advisory Board, Springer Series on Law, Technology and Governance
• 2010 Standby Task Force
• 2010 Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research Network
• 2010 International Network of Crisis Mappers
• 2010 Scientific Board of the Catalan Journal of Intellectual History
• 2010 Editorial Board of the IDT Series on Law and Technology
• 2003 Editorial Board of IDP: Internet, Derecho y Política
• 2001 Former Editorial Board Member of the Stanford Journal of International Law

Positions

• 2011-13 Director of the UAB Institute of Law and Technology (Barcelona, Spain)
• 2012 Visiting researcher, Victoria University, Faculty of Business and Law
• 2012- Professor at the Erasmus Mundus Intl. Doctorate in Law, Science and Technology
• 2012- Media Monitoring coordinator, Standby Task Force
• 2011- Project Evaluator for the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
• 2007 Project Evaluator for the EU 7th Framework Program (Social Sciences Panel)
• 2004- Lecturer in Conflict Resolution and Peace Building, Open University of Catalonia

Honors and awards

• 2012 Successful Innovation at the Innovating Justice Awards
• 2011 United Nations Online Volunteering Award
• 2011 International Association for Emergency Management Global Competition
• 2007 ICREA Junior Researcher Fellowship
• 2006 Advanced Research Award, Catalan Agency for the Quality of Research
• 2001 Stanford Center of International Conflict and Negotiation Fellowship
• 2000 Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship1999 Fulbright Scholarship
• 1997 Finalist, Catalan Association of Sociology Prize

• Poblet Balcell, M.,Garcia-Cuesta, E.,Casanovas, P. (2018). (In Press) Crowdsourcing roles, methods and tools for data-intensive disaster management In: Information Systems Frontiers, , 1 – 17
• Poblet Balcell, M.,Kolieb, J. (2018). Responding to Human Rights Abuses in the Digital Era: New Tools, Old Challenges In: Stanford Journal of International Law, 54, 259 – 283
• Poblet Balcell, M.,Teodoro, E.,Gonzalez-Conejero, J.,Varela, R.,Casanovas, P. (2017). A co-regulatory approach to stay safe online: reporting inappropriate content with the MediaKids mobile app In: Journal of Family Studies, 23, 180 – 197
• Ng, Y.,Coghill, K.,Thornton-Smith, P.,Poblet Balcell, M. (2017). Democratic representation and the property franchise in Australian local government In: Australian Journal of Public Administration, 76, 221 – 236
• Poblet Balcell, M.,Fitzpatrick, M.,Chhetri, P. (2017). Microtasking: Redefining crowdsourcing practices in emergency management In: Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 32, 47 – 53
• Casanovas, P.,Mendelson, D.,Poblet Balcell, M. (2017). A linked democracy approach for regulating public health data In: Health and Technology, 7, 519 – 537
• Tennant, J.,Dugan, J.,Graziotin, D.,et al, .,Poblet Balcell, M. (2017). A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review In: F1000Research, 6, 1 – 64
• Luz, N.,Poblet Balcell, M.,Silva, N. (2016). Crowdsourcing Dispute Resolution: Survey and Challenges In: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Conflict Resolution, IGI Global, United States
• Poblet Balcell, M.,McMurray, A. (2015). Applying web 3.0 resources on disaster management initiatives to facilitate information retrieval, visualization, and content integration: Case study of using Wikis in Croatia In: Emerging Web 3.0/Semantic Web Applications in Higher Education: Growing Personalization and Wider Interconnections in Learning, Information Age Publishing, United States
• Luz, N.,Poblet Balcell, M.,Silva, N.,Novais, P. (2015). Defining human-machine micro-task workflows for constitution making In: Outlooks and Insights on Group Decision and Negotiation, Springer International Publishing, Germany

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Law and technology, Conflict management, Crisis and disaster management, Crowd-sourcing, Ethics (related to these aspects)

• Building resilience and inclusion amongst vulnerable populations through social media. Funded by: National Disaster Resilience Grant 2017 from (2017 to 2018)