Manuel Gertrudix Barrio

Associate Professor of Digital Communication at the Rey Juan Carlos University, coordinator of the Cyberimaginary research group, and co-editor of the scientific journal Icono14. Specialist in digital communication and elearning he has been IP of 8 competitive national and international research projects and has participated in more than 20. He has an extensive scientific production with more than 110 publications including research articles, book chapters and monographs.

He has been Vice Chancellor for Quality, Ethics and Good Governance of the URJC (2018 -2021), Academic Director of the Center for Innovation in Digital Education of the URJC (2013-2017), Technical Advisor of New Technologies (2003-2007) and Head of Service of distance education of the Ministry of Education (Spain). He has taught at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1999-2002), Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (1999-2003) and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2003-2007).

He has realisazed stays of research in the USA at the University of Central Florida and in Scotland at the University of Stirling. He has taught courses in Argentina at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Colombia, at the Universidad del Norte, and at the UDESC in Brazil.

He is currently the Academic Director of the Master’s degree in journalistic research, new narratives, data, fact-checking and transparency at URJC-Fundación Maldita, and director of the Innovation Group for Teaching in Communication, Digital Technologies and Open Education at the Rey Juan Carlos University.