I am a Full Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) where I have been working since 1994. I hold a PhD in Education from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).
During my 33 years of teaching, I have worked at different educational levels, from Primary to Higher Education abroad and in Spain. I have also taught Spanish at Exeter University, St John´s University of York (UK), and at various secondary schools in Sweden. Currently, I am teaching English and Spanish to national and international students of architecture. My academic and research progression has been recognized so far with three Spanish State Evaluation on Education milestones in 2010, 2014, and 2019. Additionally, in 2018 I achieved the maximum level of recognition in DOCENTIA. Finally, I have received four times the Award for Outstanding Teaching granted by the students of the School of Architecture.
My research interests include English and Spanish Foreign Language Teaching, Academic & Professional, Language & Communication, Design of Teaching & Learning tools, and Cognitive Linguistics, all under a multi-disciplinary teaching perspective in different socio-cultural experience backgrounds, focusing on the students of Architecture. I have extensive experience in the design of Spanish and English subjects in the field of academic and professional communication in the field of architecture and construction to native and non-native speakers. I also belong to DISCYT research group focused on language teaching and I coordinate the APLAI group, focused on the design of teaching materials and tools. I am the author of eight books as well as different chapters in four collective works, thirty-four research articles published in international and national JCR journals, and twenty-five papers presented at conferences in the field of Linguistics and Education. All these publications have been supported by educational research and innovation projects by the UPM, and three of them have been awarded prizes by highly recognized institutions (INAP, AELFE, UCM). I have tutored several PhD and Masters’ theses developed within the scope of Language and Communication in Architecture, and I have also collaborated as a peer reviewer of research articles for different Spanish and international publishing firms specialized in foreign language teaching and learning.
Besides my teaching and research activities, I am also responsible for the creation and opening of several Erasmus Mundus bilateral teaching agreements for the Madrid School of Architecture. At present, I am coordinating the European project SEAH Erasmus+ KA 203 (Sharing European Architectural Heritage: innovative language teaching tools for academic and professional mobility in Architecture and Construction).
