Inés Olza is a Tenured Researcher in Linguistics at the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra (UNAV), an interdisciplinary research center for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Within ICS, she is affiliated with the Emotional Culture and Identity Project (CEMID).
At UNAV she leads the Multimodal Pragmatics Lab (MuPra Lab) and the Knowledge Generation Project MultiNeg on multimodal patterns for negation and disagreement, funded between 2019 and 2022 by the Spanish Ministry of Science (PGC2018-095703-B-I00). She is also a member of the Red Hen Lab, a distributed laboratory for research on multimodal communication.
Her research focuses on figurative language, gesture and phraseology from the perspective of Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics and Multimodality.
