| PERSONAL DETAILS |
| Nationality: | Spanish |
| Date of Birth: | November 28th, 1971 |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Sex: | Male |
| EDUCATION |
| Feb-Mar 2008 On-line |
Attendance to The International Winger School on Grid Computing 2008 conducted fully online. |
| March 2007 Spain |
Attendance to "Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications" (DEISA) Training. |
| Feb-Mar 2007 Spain |
Attendance to "Administración Avanzada SuseLinux": course organized by Afina |
| November 2006 Spain |
Attendance to "Hacking Ético": course on computing security organized by Eurocampus |
| July 2004 Italy |
Attendance to The Second International Summer School on Grid Computing at Vico Equense (Naples), Italy |
| Oct 1996 - Jun 2002 UK |
PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Education (thanks to a
FPU grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science) with
the title "Towards tutoring systems that detect students' motivation: an investigation" in the Artificial Intelligence and Education Group (Division of Informatics, Artificial Intelligence) in The University of Edinburgh. 16 months leave and 7 months part-time |
| July 1998 Spain |
ELSNET's 6TH European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication, thanks to financial help from a TMR grant |
| June 1996 Hong Kong |
Certificate of Excellence. Microsoft Official Curriculum Course. Internet Specialist Training Windows NT 3.51, Internet Information Server, FrontPage. |
| July 1994 Belgium |
Presentation of the MSc thesis, with the title "A prototype for a database-interface. The user interface". The thesis consisted of a graphic interface for a Dutch to SQL database system developed in a Macintosh computer, programming in Lisp. |
| 1993-1994 Belgium |
"Master in Artificial Intelligence" (MSc.) in the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), thanks to financial help from an ERASMUS grant. |
| Easter 1993 UK |
"CASE Tools" intensive course in Coventry University, thanks to an ERASMUS grant from the European Government |
| 1989-1994 Spain |
Licenciado (MSc.) in Computer Science from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), San Sebastian. |
| WORK EXPERIENCE |
| Aug 2003-... Spain |
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Position: PostDoc Software Support Research, deployment, administration and support of Supercomputing resources (Condor pool of 200 PCs, HPC clusters, courses and talks on Parallel Programming, etc.) |
| 2006-2008 Spain |
Universidad de La Laguna
(Tenerife) Position: Advanced Programming Techniques Lecturer (part-time) as part of a collaboration between the IAC and the ULL for the "Master en Astrofisica" graduate degree. |
| Feb 2003-Aug 2003 Spain |
Universidad de La Laguna
(Tenerife) Position: Software Engineering Lecturer (part-time) |
| Dic 2002-July 2002 Spain |
Cabildo Insular de
Tenerife Position: Job and Local Development Agent (Agente de Empleo y Desarrollo Local) |
| Apr 2002- Oct 2002 UK |
Glasgow Caledonian University
Position: Research Assistant (part-time). |
| Nov 2001- Oct 2002 UK |
SELLIC - University
of Edinburgh Position: Learning Technology Developer (part-time) |
| Oct 2000 - Apr 2001 Tanzania |
University
of Bukoba Position: Head of Computer Science Department and Lecturer of IT1, IT2 and Programming Methodologies modules. |
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| Jan 1997- Jan 2000 UK |
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| 1996 March - August Hong Kong |
Intact Workflow Communications Ltd. Position: Web Programmer. |
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| 1996 March - August Hong Kong |
Santander Investment Bank Position: Spanish Private Teacher (part-time) Teacher of Spanish Language to personnel of the bank in a private basis. |
| 1996 Jan-March Hong Kong |
Web Page Designer - Freelance Good knowledge of HTML, CGI scripts, PERL, etc. |
| 1995 Hong-Kong |
Spanish Trade Commission Position: "Information Systems Officer" (thanks to an ICEX grant) |
Responsible for the computer systems in the office:
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| 1993 Jan-Sept Spain |
University of the Basque Country Position: Part-time research assistant Part-time research assistant in a project to create an Intelligent Dictionary "Basque-Spanish; Spanish-Basque? using a LISP machine. |
| 1985-1993 Spain |
Freelance private teacher Part-time private teacher of high-school subjects to different students. Mainly: Mathematics, English, Chemistry... |
| MUSIC EDUCATION |
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Guitar (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, grade 3) |
| 1984-1989 Spain |
Violin (grade 3) |
| 1980's Spain |
Theory of music (grade 5 out of 5) |
| PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES |
Member of The
International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society
| PUBLICATIONS |
See Publications
page.
| HOBBIES |
Playing musical instruments: violin, piano, clarinet, guitar.
Flying: paragliding, gliding, microlights.
Sports: biking, swimming, table-tenis, badminton, squash, ice-skating.
| LANGUAGES |
| Spanish: | Native speaker |
| English: | Fluent. IELTS from University of Cambridge: 8.5 / 9.0 |
| Basque: | Nearly fluent (only needs some brushing up) |
| French: | Working knowledge |
| Japanese: | Basic knowledge. Cambridge Certificate in Japanese and Japanese Studies (June 1999) from University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate. |
References available on request