Current position. Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at the Department of Language Education-University of Seville, ANECA certifications (Ayudante doctor, 2017, Contratado doctor, 2019). Secondary teaching collaborations at master’s in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language at the European University of Madrid. Past positions. Ayudante doctor at UMA-Málaga, where I taught Language Didactics at graduate and master’s levels. Ayudante doctor at UBurgos and UAM-Madrid. Postdoc researcher at the USC/U. Southern Denmark, project "Videogames as an academic and vernacular literacy practice of young people", competitive postdoc grant/contract 110,000€, 3 years, Xunta de Galicia. I teach at undergraduate degrees at UOC. I teach in a master’s in Teaching Spanish at UEMadrid. I got a FPI predoctoral grat at UPF, where I taught for 4 years. Academic background. Extraordinary Award for Master's degree-USC. PhD thesis Digital language learning from a multilingual perspective: the use of online language resources in the one-to-one classroom (Excellent cum laude, International Doctorate, Award Sociedad Barcelonesa de Amigos del País: 4.200€ for research). Research. I have recently obtained two projects as Principal Investigator: (1) SEGUE: Social Media and Video Games for Language Learning and Teaching, 4.200 EUR, B1-2021_33, Research Plan UMA (16/May/2022-16/May/2024), and (2) DEFINERS: Digital Language Learning of Junior and Preservice Language Teachers (site under construction), 72.500 EUR, TED2021-129984A-I00, Ecological and Digital Transition, Spanish National Research Plan (01/12/2022-30/11/2024). I (have) participate(d) in 11 research groups/projects with competitive funding: (1) DERG and (2) Didactics and School Subjects at Southern Denmark U., Denmark; (3) Lancaster Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster U., in the UK; (4) STELLAE, (5) CDEPI at USC; (6) GRAEL, (7) IES2.0, (8) ICUDEL, (9) Fandom, (10) ForVid at UPF; (11) Escrita em media, UNICAMP, Brazil). Grants/prizes, predoc/postdoc years: 1 FPI predoc grant, 2 funded predoc research stays (MICINN for Lancaster U., & Award from Sociedad Barcelonesa de Amigos del País for UNICAMP-Brazil), competitive grants to present at international conferences (UPF, USC, Tecnische U. Dresde), 1 postdoc research project and contract (3 years: 2 at SDU, Denmark, 1 at USC, Galicia), 1 postdoc research stay grant (USC for Malmö U., Sweden). Research stays. 5 with competitive funding. 2 predoc: 3-month predoc stay Lancaster U.-UK, 3-month predoc stay UNICAMP-Brazil, 24-month postdoc stay SDU-Denmark, 1-month postdoc Malmö U.-Sweden; 1-week Erasmus teaching mobility UAveiro-Portugal. Research output. I have 32 publications articles (plus 1 in press, 4 under review, 1 in preparation) (incl. 11 in Q1 journals in SSCI/SJR, 9 book chapters prestigious publishing houses-Palgrave-MacMillan, DeGruyter, Routledge). PhD/MA supervision/assessment. I have supervised over 20 Master’s thesis, most with grades merit and above. Member of 2 Master thesis examining boards in Maringá-Brazil, 2 in UPF, 5 PhD thesis examining boards in U. Maringá-Brazil, Monash University-Australia, UPF, UGranada, USevilla; co-supervising 1 PhD candidate at USC and supervising 1 PhD candidate at the University of Málaga. I have supervised 4 students with department research grants (Julieta Barbisotti-2024, Ursula Rivas-2023, María Nieto-2023, Sergio Duarte-2022 now a Spanish teacher at the British School-Málaga). Outreach. Conferences: over 50 with 10 keynote/invited talks, highlight: American Association for Applied Linguistics AAAL 2019 International Conference (Mar/2019). Conference organizing. Member of scientific committees in conferences (Australia, Taiwan, Spain), organized an international seminar for Comunicación y Pensamiento (Grupo/Revista Comunicar), organized an international seminar for IWODA2022 on digital gaming and language learning. Knowledge transfer. I have given talks for companies, including international language learning app Duolingo, for the research team at the headquarters in Pittsburg and worldwide. Other. Erasmus advisor/member of int’l relations committees at UAMadrid (5 outgoing students) and at UMálaga (over 15 outgoing students).
Current position. Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at the Department of Language Education-University of Seville, ANECA certifications (Ayudante doctor, 2017, Contratado doctor, 2019). Secondary teaching collaborations at master’s in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language at the European University of Madrid. Past positions. Ayudante doctor at UMA-Málaga, where I taught Language Didactics at graduate and master’s levels. Ayudante doctor at UBurgos and UAM-Madrid. Postdoc researcher at the USC/U. Southern Denmark, project "Videogames as an academic and vernacular literacy practice of young people", competitive postdoc grant/contract 110,000€, 3 years, Xunta de Galicia. I teach at undergraduate degrees at UOC. I teach in a master’s in Teaching Spanish at UEMadrid. I got a FPI predoctoral grat at UPF, where I taught for 4 years. Academic background. Extraordinary Award for Master's degree-USC. PhD thesis Digital language learning from a multilingual perspective: the use of online language resources in the one-to-one classroom (Excellent cum laude, International Doctorate, Award Sociedad Barcelonesa de Amigos del País: 4.200€ for research). Research. I have recently obtained two projects as Principal Investigator: (1) SEGUE: Social Media and Video Games for Language Learning and Teaching, 4.200 EUR, B1-2021_33, Research Plan UMA (16/May/2022-16/May/2024), and (2) DEFINERS: Digital Language Learning of Junior and Preservice Language Teachers (site under construction), 72.500 EUR, TED2021-129984A-I00, Ecological and Digital Transition, Spanish National Research Plan (01/12/2022-30/11/2024). I (have) participate(d) in 11 research groups/projects with competitive funding: (1) DERG and (2) Didactics and School Subjects at Southern Denmark U., Denmark; (3) Lancaster Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster U., in the UK; (4) STELLAE, (5) CDEPI at USC; (6) GRAEL, (7) IES2.0, (8) ICUDEL, (9) Fandom, (10) ForVid at UPF; (11) Escrita em media, UNICAMP, Brazil). Grants/prizes, predoc/postdoc years: 1 FPI predoc grant, 2 funded predoc research stays (MICINN for Lancaster U., & Award from Sociedad Barcelonesa de Amigos del País for UNICAMP-Brazil), competitive grants to present at international conferences (UPF, USC, Tecnische U. Dresde), 1 postdoc research project and contract (3 years: 2 at SDU, Denmark, 1 at USC, Galicia), 1 postdoc research stay grant (USC for Malmö U., Sweden). Research stays. 5 with competitive funding. 2 predoc: 3-month predoc stay Lancaster U.-UK, 3-month predoc stay UNICAMP-Brazil, 24-month postdoc stay SDU-Denmark, 1-month postdoc Malmö U.-Sweden; 1-week Erasmus teaching mobility UAveiro-Portugal. Research output. I have 32 publications articles (plus 1 in press, 4 under review, 1 in preparation) (incl. 11 in Q1 journals in SSCI/SJR, 9 book chapters prestigious publishing houses-Palgrave-MacMillan, DeGruyter, Routledge). PhD/MA supervision/assessment. I have supervised over 20 Master’s thesis, most with grades merit and above. Member of 2 Master thesis examining boards in Maringá-Brazil, 2 in UPF, 5 PhD thesis examining boards in U. Maringá-Brazil, Monash University-Australia, UPF, UGranada, USevilla; co-supervising 1 PhD candidate at USC and supervising 1 PhD candidate at the University of Málaga. I have supervised 4 students with department research grants (Julieta Barbisotti-2024, Ursula Rivas-2023, María Nieto-2023, Sergio Duarte-2022 now a Spanish teacher at the British School-Málaga). Outreach. Conferences: over 50 with 10 keynote/invited talks, highlight: American Association for Applied Linguistics AAAL 2019 International Conference (Mar/2019). Conference organizing. Member of scientific committees in conferences (Australia, Taiwan, Spain), organized an international seminar for Comunicación y Pensamiento (Grupo/Revista Comunicar), organized an international seminar for IWODA2022 on digital gaming and language learning. Knowledge transfer. I have given talks for companies, including international language learning app Duolingo, for the research team at the headquarters in Pittsburg and worldwide. Other. Erasmus advisor/member of int’l relations committees at UAMadrid (5 outgoing students) and at UMálaga (over 15 outgoing students).
