ROBERTO PORTILLO

Professional Profile

Roberto Portillo is the head of the Teaching Assistants Department of Universidad Galileo in Guatemala and a mathematics instructor in Engineering Courses. He holds a Bs. in Electronics and Computer Science (Galileo University, Guatemala) and a Ms. in Operations Research (Galileo University, Guatemala). He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the information technologies applied to the education area, and

Roberto also has extensive teaching experience in mathematics for engineering, which has led him to obtain the excellence teaching award on multiple occasions. His research area is Engineering Education, where he worked on numerous research projects to improve both the students' academic performance and motivation. Additionally, he collaborates with the SENACYT (Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología) as National Contact Point (NCP) in the CELAC (Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos) group to promote research infrastructures collaboration's between Latin American countries and the European Union (EU).