Corresponding Academician

Technological Sciences: PhD in “ICT and ICT Management” and Telecommunications Engineer. Promoter and first Rector of La Salle Open University.

Date of admission: July 9, 2014

Admission speech: “Technology, Trigger of a New Landscape in Higher Education”

Reply by: Dr. José Daniel Barquero Cabrero, PhD in Social and Human Sciences; Legal and Economic Sciences; and Business Administration and Senior Management

DR. LLUÍS VICENT SAFONT

UNIVERSITY DEGREES

  • PhD in Information and Communication Technologies from the Universitat Ramon Llull (2007).
    Thesis: “E-learning Proposal for Engineering Degrees in the European Higher Education Area. The Minimum Virtual Campus”.
  • Diploma of Advanced Studies, Universitat Ramon Llull (2006).
  • Telecommunications Engineer (2006).
  • Master in E-learning (2003).
  • Electronics Engineer (1998).
  • Technical Telecommunications Engineer (Sound and Image) (1996).

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

  • Associate Professor at La Salle Campus Barcelona – Universitat Ramon Llull (1996–present), teaching Telecommunications, Computer and Multimedia Engineering. Author of textbooks such as Probability with Applications to Statistics, Electromagnetic Wave Propagation and Digital Image Processing.
  • Director of La Salle Open Campus since 2009, responsible for blended and online degree programmes.
  • Director of the La Salle E-Learning Institute (2003–present), promoting research in educational technologies.
  • Founder of the E-learning Research Group GIDTEL and later of the E-Learning Institute, officially recognised in 2014 as GRETEL (Research Group in Technology Enhanced Learning) by the Government of Catalonia.
  • Rector of the Universitat Oberta La Salle – La Salle Open University since 2012, an institution approved by the Consell de les Valls of the Principality of Andorra.
  • Regional Director for Europe and Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Lasallian Universities (2013–present).

PUBLICATIONS

  • Principal Investigator in public (MEC, MITYC, GENCAT) and private projects.
  • Speaker at universities and international conferences (IEEE, ACM).
  • Notable publications: Multimedia in Education: Adaptive Learning & Testing (World Scientific Press, 2010); E-learning (IN-TEH Education, 2010).
  • Promoter of the collection Librería Abierta (27 open-access textbooks).