Dr. Judit Vall, researcher at the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB), has obtained the position of full professor of Applied Economics at the University of Barcelona (UB). Vall is a member of the Department of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business. An expert in health and labour economics, she was awarded an ICREA Acadèmia grant in 2022 by the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies. Previously, she had been Research Director of the Centre for Research in Economics and Health at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and has been an associate lecturer at the University of Girona.

Judit Vall has been involved in international projects at NBER, UNICEF and the University of Cambridge and was previously a Marie Curie predoctoral research fellow at Maastricht University, where she received her PhD in July 2010. After defending her PhD she was a Robert Solow postdoctoral fellow at UPF. She has been a visiting researcher at Essex University, the Toulouse School of Economics and at the State University of New York at Stony Brook on a Fulbright-Schuman scholarship.