Curriculum Vitae:
Francisco José García-Peñalvo graduated from University of Valladolid with a degree in Computer Science, later to obtain a PhD in the University of Salamanca, and is currently Profesor Titular de Universidad (a Senior Lecturer) in the Departamento de Informática y Automática of the University of Salamanca. He leads the GRoup of InterAction & eLearning (GRIAL), a research group whose main lines of work are Man-machine interaction, Web engineering, Software Engineering, Educative Computing and Communications Theory. He has published in excess of one hundred papers in international publications and conferences, and has participated in more than twenty research projects. He currently teaches in the Programa de Doctorado del Departamento de Informática (which has been awarded a Mención de Calidad of ANECA since Academic Course 2003-2004), as well as in the Máster Oficial en Sistemas Inteligentes, in the Máster Oficial en TIC aplicadas a la Educación, and in the Programa de Doctorado Procesos de Formación en Espacios Virtuales de la Universidad de Salamanca. Dr. Peñalvo is currently Director of the Experto/Máster en eLearning: Tecnologías y Métodos de Formación en Red. Lastly, as concerns administrative tasks, he is currently Vicerrector de Innovación Tecnológica de la Universidad de Salamanca.

Main Research Interests:

• software engineering/Web engineering
• human-computer interaction
• eLearning Systems