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18 unusual facts about Autonomous University of Madrid


Aaron Cicourel

Cicourel held a Russell Sage Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship at the University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, a National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship at London University in England, a Guggenheim Fellowship at the University of Madrid in Spain, and was a Fulbright lecturer in Brazil and Spain.

Amaro Rodríguez Felipe

In 2013 the exhumation of his remains was conducted by a team of archaeologists and forensic Autonomous University of Madrid, for the purpose of DNA testing and rebuilding his face.

Arnold Zellner

He holds honorary degrees from the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain, the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa in Portugal, the University of Kiel in Germany, and the Erasmus School of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Aurora de Albornoz

Around 1968, de Albornoz returned to Madrid where she taught at the Universidad Autónoma (Department of Humanities) and at the University of New York in Spain.

Danuta Hübner

In the 1970s she was a visiting scholar at Universidad Autonoma in Madrid.

Eugenio Morales Agacino

Eugenio Morales Agacino (March 15, 1914 – March 9, 2002) was a Spanish entomologist and naturalist, named honorary doctorate by the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Fernando Schwartz

He has been professor of Opinion in UAM journalism department and conductor of TV program Lo más Plus in Canal Plus.

Francisco Laguna Correa

He graduated with a double BA in Hispanic Studies and Liberal Studies at the UNAM and Portland State University, he also holds two Master degrees, one in Immigration and another in Hispanic Philosophy, both from the Autonomous University of Madrid.

José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra

Has lectured in European Community studies at the Diplomatic School of Madrid, the University of Trieste, the Menéndez y Pelayo University, the Complutense, Autonomous and Technical Universities of Madrid, as well as other centres and institutions

José María Espejo-Saavedra Conesa

He studied Law at the Autonomous University of Madrid and has a master's degree in insolvency administration obtained at the Lawyer Association of Barcelona, he also has some other minors obtained at ESADE.

Luis Felipe Lomelí

He gained a Ph.D in Science and Culture at Madrid's Autonomous University.

Luis García Montero

At a conference, his work was dedicated at the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2008 and with more financial contributions than any other writer or critic, El romántico ilustrado.

M. Margaret McKeown

She has also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Georgetown and studied at the University of Madrid.

Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas

Burelli Rivas, was born in La Puerta, Venezuela, graduated as lawyer with a post-graduate degree in Political Sciences in University of Florence and a post-graduate degree in Law from the University of Madrid, Spain.

Muhsin al-Ramli

Universidad Autónoma of Madrid 2003, thesis topic: The Imprint of Islamic Culture in Don Quixote.

Santiago Carrillo

On 20 October 2005, Carrillo was granted an honorary doctorate by the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Tercio Sampaio Ferraz Jr.

Ferraz Jr. is currently a consultant for the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, professor at the Autonomous University of Law, professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and professor of the Department of Philosophy of Law, Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Largo San Francisco, where his predecessor in the chair was Prof. Goffredo da Silva Telles Jr.

Trinidad Jiménez

Born in Málaga on 4 June 1962, the third of nine children, Jiménez has a law degree from the Autonomous University of Madrid.


Amina Alaoui

Amina went to school at Lycée Descartes and studied philology and Spanish and Arabic linguistics at the University of Madrid and the University of Granada.

Community of Madrid

Another important university is the Autonoma, perhaps Spain's best university for research along with the Complutense, was instituted under the leadership of the famous physicist, Nicolás Cabrera.