Mission Statement
Education, motivation, and creativity. Raise awareness in universities about the need to create and design products and services that promote the circular economy in our immediate social environment as free European citizens.
Biography
PhD in Fine Arts since 1997. She currently works in the Graphic Engineering Department as an associate professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She teaches Graphic Engineering, Design and Communication, CAD at the School of Aerospace Engineering and Industrial Design ,ETSIADI, Valencia, Spain.
As a teacher, she has been a reviewer of Erasmus+ educational projects for years and is currently the coordinator of an Innovation and Educational Quality Group called ABP-Design and Communication, focusing on promoting project-oriented learning in engineering and communication.
As a researcher, she has participated in various national and international competitive research projects on the application of technology in education and language learning. She was the coordinator of the CEF Connecting Europe Facility projects from 2019 to 2022.
Research fields on which she works focus on educational technology, visual communication of educational content on the web, design of multimodal interfaces, user experience evaluation techniques, graphic interfaces for education, mobile graphic interfaces, methods of usability, and accessibility. She is a regular reviewer of articles in JCR Q1 and Q2 journals.
Questionnaire
Where do you want to foster change and why?
Education in general, and especially at the university level. Future professionals have to understand that innovation and the sustainable transformation of products and services will be the future of the planet. I believe that with proper training and lifelong learning, a genuine awareness of the planet’s current needs can be achieved.
What or who influenced you during your professional career?
Honestly, I cannot think of just one person because during my training and later in my professional career. I have had the privilege of working with individuals and groups with diverse professional profiles. However, I can say that the people who have had the greatest impact on me are those who have demonstrated professionalism, honesty, and passion for their work.
We all have those significant moments or situations (success or failure); which one was yours, and what did you learn from it?
I don’t like to talk about failures and successes in my work, but rather achievements and aspirations, because in real life, they all shape your professional life. In 2018, my research group and I developed a series of accessible websites for various medical departments at La Fe Hospital in Valencia, Spain, which has an average of 300,000 patients and employs more than 1,100 doctors and 400 residents in training. As the technical manager of the project, I attended all meetings held with doctors, nurses, and technicians over three years. I was able to experience the professionalism and dedication of all the staff involved in areas such as paediatric medicine, mental health, genetic counselling for cancer, and resuscitation, among others. Getting to know numerous healthcare profiles was a challenge for my technical team, but not for me. It was wonderful to work with a group of professionals who were willing to put in extra hours to assist me because they fully understood the value of this new digital environment for internal and external users. The result was an accessible website that served to inform the public about the services of each area that is still on going. In that mega-project, I discovered that if you want something, you can always achieve it if you have a mental and synergic connected team. All you need is curiosity, attitude, and professionalism in the face of challenges.