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title: "Autonomous University of Barcelona: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "The Autonomous University of Barcelona is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-autonomous-university-of-barcelona
type: Organization
wikidata: Q43452
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_University_of_Barcelona
website: https://www.uab.cat
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Autonomous University of Barcelona

> The Autonomous University of Barcelona is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: Spain
- Founded: 1968-06-06
- Headquarters: Bellaterra Campus
- Status: private
- Website: https://www.uab.cat
- Also known as: UAB, uab.cat, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/UABBarcelona
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uabbarcelona
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uabbarcelona

## Key people

- Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian, Spanish and Dominican novelist and writer (1936–2025))
- Joan Fuster (Spanish writer (1922–1992))
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (Spanish writer (1939-2003))
- Mathias Énard (French writer, translator, and university teacher (born 1972))
- Oriol Junqueras (Spanish politician and historian (born 1969))
- Pasqual Maragall i Mira (Spanish politician)
- Rolf Singer (German mycologist (1906–1994))
- Carme Riera (Spanish writer and teacher)
- Raül Romeva (Catalan politician)
- Anna Gabriel i Sabaté (Spanish politician, Catalan activist and law professor)
- Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca (Spanish politician and physicist, former vice president of the European Parliament (1999-2014))
- Muriel Casals (Catalan economist and politician (1945-2016))

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology, School of Engineering of UAB

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Autonomous University of Barcelona, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-autonomous-university-of-barcelona#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43452, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_University_of_Barcelona

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