María Esther del Moral Pérez
Professor of Educational Technology. University of Oviedo
Professor of Educational Technology. Teaches ICT applied to Education. Faculty of Teacher Training and Education. University of Oviedo (Spain). She has five six-year periods of research recognized by the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity of the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities.
Coordinates the TECN@ Research Group: Technology and Learning. Principal investigator for competitive projects, author of articles in prestigious journals. Research areas: digital literacy, video games, social media, digital storytelling, augmented reality, apps, gamification, educational robotics, etc. She has conducted research stays in Calgary (Canada), Poitiers (France), Freiburg (Germany), and ITD Genoa (Italy).
She has taught university teacher training courses at Latin American universities (Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Peru). Coordinator of the recent work (2025). Narrative Universes in Digital Environments. Aula Magna-McGraw Hill.
Arantza Vilas
Textile artist, Designer an Researcher
Arantza Vilas is a textile artist, designer and researcher with an interdisciplinary and experimental studio practice. She is driven by material investigation and deeply invested in processes as her work spans across disciplines and contexts. With an undercurrent exploration of concepts of time she is interested in ancients crafts and sustainable innovative tools and methods that can innovate, aid narratives and provoke reflection.
She has collaborated with costume designers in high profile film and TV productions such as Mary Queen of Scots and HBO’s Game of Thrones and exhibited in galleries and museums such as MART (Italy), Santiago City of Culture (Spain) and Galería Factoría (Cuba).
She is also affiliated to research groups such as the Wearable Computing team at UdK in Berlin and the Bio-Inspired Textiles Research group at UAL (UK) and is an Associate Lecturer at UAL (UK).
Alicia Framis
Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Fine Arts
Alicia Framis is a Spanish contemporary artist who lives and works in Amsterdam (the Netherlands). She develops platforms for creative social interaction, often through interdisciplinary collaboration with other artists and specialists from various fields.
Framis studied with the French minimalist artist Daniel Buren and the American conceptual artist Dan Graham, and her work can be situated within the lineages of relational aesthetics, performance art and social practice art.
Pepe Solla
Chef and owner of Casa Solla
Pepe Solla grew up among the stoves of the family restaurant, Casa Solla, in Poio (Pontevedra), opened by his parents in 1961. His first steps in the business were in front of house, working as a sommelier, a role in which he stood out as co-founder of the Galician Sommeliers Association and also by winning the Galician Championship.
Over time, and in order to broaden his understanding of the business, he moved into the kitchen and trained in pastry with Cristian Felder in Paris and at elBulli alongside Ferran Adrià. In 1999, he took over the gastronomic direction of Casa Solla, and in 2003 he became its owner. Pepe is one of the leading figures behind the new Galician cuisine and a founding member of the chefs’ collective Grupo NOVE.
Throughout his career, he has consolidated a culinary approach based on product quality, honesty, and Galician roots, while maintaining the MICHELIN Star that the restaurant has held since 1980. At the same time, he has driven the evolution of Casa Solla, turning it into a benchmark restaurant in Spain; in 2014, it became the first establishment in Galicia to be awarded 3 Repsol Suns.
Mario Diz Otero
Conductor, educator and researcher in Music Education
Mario Diz Otero is a conductor, composer, and university lecturer whose work brings together artistic creation, pedagogy, and research in music education. His practice focuses on orchestral and choral conducting, as well as on university orchestras as spaces for training, participation, and educational innovation.
He holds a PhD in Education from the Universidade de Vigo and is an Assistant Professor at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC). His research explores music education, digital competencies, and the development of transversal skills, with publications in international peer-reviewed journals.
As director of the University of Santiago de Compostela Orchestra and Choir (OCUSC), he leads projects that combine training, creation, and musical outreach, promoting music as a tool for holistic development in contemporary university contexts.
Roberto Baelo Álvarez
Full Professor in the area of Didactics and School Organization. University of Leon.
He is a specialist teacher in Physical Education, holds a degree in Psychopedagogy, and earned a PhD in Psychology and Educational Sciences (Extraordinary Doctorate Award, 2012) from the University of León. His research activity is linked to the use of Information and Communication Technologies in education, the development of intercultural competences, and educational equity. He directs the Consolidated Research Unit of the Regional Government of Castile and León, UIC 336.
He has participated in more than 25 research projects funded through international, national, regional, and local public calls. The results of this research have been reflected in around one hundred publications, including articles in indexed scientific journals, book chapters, reviews, and scholarly books.
In 2005, he received an Honorable Mention in the National Awards for Educational Research and Innovation of the Ministry of Education and Science, and in 2017 he received the research award of the Economic and Social Council of Castile and León. He has held management positions as Vice-Rector for Internationalization at the University of León (2016–2024), and since 2024 he has been the Rector’s Delegate for the European university alliance EURECA-PRO at the University of León.
Paz Prendes Espinosa
Professor of Educational Technology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Murcia.
She has developed an extensive academic and research career in the field of educational technology, combining teaching, research, academic leadership, and knowledge transfer.
She currently directs the Educational Technology Research Group (GITE) and serves as editor of RiiTE: Interuniversity Journal of Research in Educational Technology. She also coordinates the Interuniversity Doctoral Programme in Educational Technology at the University of Murcia.
Her institutional profile is further reflected in her role as Secretary of the EDUTEC Association for the Development of Educational Technology and in her responsibilities as manager of the Education Commission of the State Research Agency.