Prof. Dr. Martin Llamas-Nistal
 
 

Martin Llamas-Nistal received the Engineering and PhD degrees in telecommunication from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, in 1986 and 1994, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Telematics Engineering, University of Vigo, Spain. He has served as Vice Dean of the Higher Technical School of Telecommunication Engineers (1994-1997), and as head of the ICT Area (1999-2003), both in the University of Vigo. He is author or coauthor of more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed international refereed journals and conference proceedings, and has directed several national and international research projects in telematics and technology enhanced learning fields. Dr. Llamas-Nistal is member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is deeply involved in activities organized by the IEEE Education Society (IEEE ES). He is currently Vice-President of IEEE ES for Publications (since 2011), elected member of the Board of Governors (since 2008), and member of the Strategic Planning Committee. Since it was founded in 2004, he has been a member of the IEEE Education Society Spanish Chapter Board, serving in different positions, including Chairman of the IEEE ES Spanish Chapter from April 2008 to April 2010. He co-founded in 2006 the IEEE Journal of Latin-American Learning Technologies (IEEE-RITA), and served since that time as Editor-in-Chief. He is member of the program committees of different international conferences and workshops, and General Co-Chair of the IEEE-EDUCON 2012, 2013 and 2014. He has received several awards from the W3C ((Highlight Paper in the WWW 2001, and Education Track Best Paper and Conference Best Paper Finalist in the WWW 2002) and from the IEEE (the 2007 Chapter Achievement Award for the Spanish Chapter as an outstanding model of technical activities, membership services, and professional development in Spain and Latin America, the 2010 Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award, the 2011 IEEE Education Society Chapter Achievement Award, and the IEEE EDUCON 2015 Meritorious Service Award).