Davinia Hernández-Leo
Associate Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Davinia Hernández-Leo is currently professor at the Information and Communitations Technologies Department of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the coordinator of the Educational Technologies research line of the Interactive Technologies Group (GTI), Vice-Principal of the UPF Polytechnic School and the Director of its Unit for Teaching Quality and Innovation. Davinia was previously (2003-2007) a member of the (GSIC/EMIC group) multidisciplinary group at the University of Valladolid, Spain, where she received the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees (European mention, several awards) in 2003 and 2007, respectively. She was been also visiting scholar at the Open University of the Netherlands (2006) and Virginia Tech (2012). Davinia has been honoured with several awards, such as the 2006-2007 European CSCL Award for Excellence in the field of CSCL Technology, Best Paper Award Computer Assisted Assessment Conference 2010, Best Paper Award of the International Conference In Advanced Learning Technologies 2004, ITWorldEdu2011. She has authored over 90 journal articles, book chapters and conference papers. Her research interests are framed in the interdisciplinary intersection of Telematics Applications, Human-Computer Interaction and Education; with an emphasis on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, ICT-mediated orchestration of activities in physical spaces, modelling techniques and (co-)design processes, specifications and standars, distributed telematics applications for integrated learning flows.