Jorge Tuñón Navarro
Media Lab | Full professor
Health communication | Researcher
Future of EU communication | Principal investigator
PREDCOV project | Researcher
Jorge Tuñón is Jean Monnet Professor “ad personam” and professor at the Carlos III University of Madrid. He is also an external scientific expert of the European Parliament and the European Commission, an evaluator of European projects, and a collaborator of the College of Europe, the National Institute of Public Administration of Spain, the OBS Business School, the La Caixa Foundation, among other institutions. He has experience as a journalist (EFE Agency and Mediaset) in addition to having worked for the National Institute of Public Administration in Madrid or for the European Commission in Brussels. Currently, he frequently collaborates as an analyst in different media outlets. Previously, he obtained his European Doctorate (Extraordinary Award) at the Complutense University of Madrid in Communication, International Relations and the European Union, after graduating in Law, Journalism and Political Science. He currently has more than 15 years of experience as an academic and researcher in social sciences. He stands out for his extensive international career, including international organizations, and his solid record of high-impact publications. Accredited as a University Professor by ANECA, he has directed and participated in national and international research projects, as well as being the author or co-author of nearly a hundred publications. Focused on the communication of European Affairs in times of disinformation and pandemic, Jorge Tuñón: leads the European project “FUTEUDISPAN, Future of European Communication against the disinformation pandemic” (2022-2025); co-directs the European project “EUDFAKE, European Union, disinformation and fake news” (2019-2022); in addition to being part of the research team of the European Network “OPENEUDEBATE, European Open Debate” (2018-2022); as well as the European project “European Future Challenges” (2020-2023).