Unit: Culture, creativity, social justice, critical thinking, humanities

Research group: GRIAL Interuniversity research group in linguistic applications

Email: mcollfl@uoc.edu

Doctor by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya with the thesis La modalitat de l'acció. Anàlisi empírica, reformulació teòrica i representació computacional 2009. Supervised by Dr. Salvador Climent Roca, Dr. Irene Castellón Masalles.

Marta Coll-Florit holds a PhD in Information and Knowledge Society, specialized in Applied Linguistics (UOC), and doctoral studies in Cognitive Science and Language (UB). Since 2005, she has worked at the UOC, where she is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Arts and Humanities. Within this department, she holds two leadership positions: in the academic field, she is the Director of the Interuniversity Bachelor's Degree in Translation, Interpreting and Applied Languages (UOC, UVic-UCC); and in the research domain, she leads as Principal Investigator the GRIAL research group: the Interuniversity Research Group on Linguistic Applications, recognized as a Consolidated Research Group by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2021 SGR 00581). She holds the Research Accreditation for Associate Professor (AQU, 2013) and the Advanced Research Accreditation for Full Professor (AQU, 2025). Her research is framed within the field of cognitive linguistics, with an empirical and applied approach. She has developed two main research lines: (1) studies on language comprehension through psycholinguistic experimentation; and (2) research on discourse analysis and conceptual metaphor, applied to various societal domains, using techniques from corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. She has been Principal Investigator of three funded research projects in these lines, notably the interdisciplinary MOMENT project: “Metaphors of Severe Mental Disorders. Discourse Analysis of Affected Individuals and Mental Health Professionals” (FFI2017-86969-R). Additionally, she has participated in a total of ten competitive research projects on natural language processing. On these topics, she has published over 60 works, including numerous papers in leading international journals such as Metaphor and Symbol, Cognitive Psychology, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Text & Talk, and Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. Regarding knowledge transfer, she coordinated and published the first Dictionary of Mental Health Metaphors.