Maialen Marin-Lacarta is Associate Professor in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and East Asian Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since September 2024. Prior to joining UAB, she was Senior Researcher at the Open University of Catalunya, where she led the DigiTrans project as Principal Investigator. Between 2014 and 2020, she served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, where she received the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance as Young Researcher in 2019. Marin-Lacarta is also the recipient of the Jokin Zaitegi Basque National Award for her translation (with Aiora Jaka) of Nobel laureate Mo Yan’s work into Basque. She has secured multiple competitive grants, including two General Research Fund grants from Hong Kong's University Grants Committee (as Principal Investigator) and four Spanish government-funded grants (one as PI and three as Co-Investigator). She has published her research in Basque, French, Spanish, Chinese, and English. Her areas of expertise include research methodologies, relational theories, ethnography in translation and interpreting studies, digital publishing, literary translation, modern and contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literature, literary reception, translation history, and indirect translation. Marin-Lacarta is a member of ALTER research group (at UOC), the executive committee of IATIS and the editorial team of Encounters in Translation, a peer-reviewed, Diamond Open Access, interdisciplinary journal.