David Martín Moncunill

He is a Technical Engineering in Computer Management from Universidad de Alcala and has a degree in Information Systems / Business Informatics from the same university. He worked in the banking industry (payment methods) from 2008 to 2012 as Website Project Leader & Social Media Manager. He moved to IERU research group on May 2012 to start a career as researcher and to obtain a PhD.

Research Interests
His preferred areas are usability and IT project management, his research interests include semantic web, semantic interoperability, accessibility and knowledge representation.

Collaboration in Research Projects

 * VOA3R (2010-2013) Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository: Sharing Scientific and Scholarly Research related to Agriculture, Food, and Environment. Partially funded from the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP), Theme 4 – “Open access to scientific information”. Finished with "Excellent progress".
 * Organic.Lingua (2011-2014)Demonstrating the potential of a multilingual Web portal for Sustainable Agricultural & Environmental Education. Partially funded from the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP), Theme 6 – “Multilingual Web”.
 * ODS (2012-2015) Open Discovery Space: A socially-powered and multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adoption of eLearning resources. Partially funded from the CIP-ICT Policy Support Programme, Theme 2 – “Digital Content. eLearning”.
 * EAHR Explore & Act for Human Rights: A project for European School Students. Funded by the Council of Europe.

Teaching collaboration
David loves teaching :).

- During the second semester of 2012/2013 he collaborated teaching software Engineering subject.

- Also, during 2012/2013 David developed a usability course (40 hours - 2 ECTS) named "Usability 101", to teach the basics of usability. The course attracted great interest and all vacancies were occupied.

- Collaboration in the It Management subject - UAH's International MBA - 2013/2014, teaching the usability unit.

Publications

 * Martin-Moncunill, D., Sanchez-Alonso, S., Gaona, P., & Marianos, N. (2013). Applying visualization techniques to develop interfaces for educational repositories: the case of Organic.Lingua and VOA3R. Proceedings of the Learning Innovations and Quality: The Future of Digital Resources, 60-67.


 * Stoitsis G., Protonotarios V., Sanchez-Alonso S., Martin Moncunill D., and Kastrantas K. (2013). Using agricultural learning portals in developing countries: The case of Organic.Edunet. Proceedings of the EFITA 2013 Conference, June 23-27, 2013, Turin, Italy.


 * Gaona, P., Martin-Moncunill, D., Fermoso, A., & Sanchez-Alonso, S. (n.d.). A usability study of taxonomy-visualization user interfaces in digital repositories. Journal Online Information review (in press).

Other Interests
David has practiced martial arts since he was 4 years old, he taught Kenpo and Self-Defence in the Politechnic University of Madrid from 2004 to 2012. He is currently teaching Kenpo in Universidad de Alcalá.