Rubén Chacón Beltrán is Dean of the Faculty of Philology at UNED where he teaches undergraduate courses in English as a Foreign Language and sociolinguistics, and graduate seminars in Bilingualism and Corpus Linguistics. He holds a PhD in Applied English Linguistics from the University of Seville and has worked at various Spanish universities. Es director de la revista académica ELIA: Estudios de Lingüística Inglesa Aplicaday coordinador del grupo de innovación docente IDEAAL. He is the editor of scholarly journal ELIA: Studies in Applied English Linguistics and head of the IDEAAL Teaching Innovation Group. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Open University, Swansea University, Birmingham City University, and the University of the West of England in the United Kingdom, as well as the National Pedagogical University, in Colombia, and the National University of Comahue, in Argentina.

Salvador Ros is a senior lecturer at UNED’s School of Computer Engineering. He is also the head of UNED’s Digital Humanities Laboratory (LINHD), technological director of the POSTDATA ERC Starting Grant project, Principal Investigator of the INFRA CLS H2020 Project at UNED, head of the master’s degree programmes in Digital Humanities, Data Science and Big Data Technologies and Architecture at UNED. He was the head of UNED’s Learning Technologies Department for six years and deputy head of the Technology Department at the School of Computer Science for another six years. He holds a PhD with distinction (Premio extraordinario de Doctorado) from UNED. Salvador Ros is an expert in Strategic Management and Innovation in the Public Sector. . He has certifications in Leadership for Public Sector Management (IESE Business School, University of Navarra), Senior Strategic Management for Universities (Nebrija University and Technical University of Catalonia) and in Leadership for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector (Deusto Business School).