Education

University of Murcia
Murcia (Spain)
October 2008 -
March 2009

       CAP (Postgraduate Certificate in Education)

• Similar to UK PGCE.
• Specialised in English teaching.
• 100 hours of practical training in a secondary school.

University of Barcelona
Barcelona (Spain)
October 2006 -
January 2009

       Postgraduate degree-Master in Asian and Pacific Studies

• China, Japan, India, Pakistan, South-East Asia, Tibet, Mongolia, Central Asia, Pacific.
• History, geography, geopolitics, religion, economy, art, literature, Japanese language.
• 90 credits.

Beijing Language and Culture University
Beijing (China)
August 1999 -
August 2001

       Postgraduate studies

• Chinese language and culture.
• Certificate of Chinese Proficiency (HSK).
• Computational linguistics and natural language processing.

University of Granada
Granada (Spain)
July 1997 - Aug. 1999

       PhD courses in Linguistic Typology and Compared Linguistics

• Ontology, typology, phonetics, computational linguistics, applied linguistics.
• 31 credits (no final thesis).

University of Granada / Eur. Commission
Granada (Spain)
30 June - 7 July 1997

       Introduction to computational linguistics (TEMPUS-TACIS)

• Intensive course (30 hours).

University of Granada
Granada (Spain)
October 1993 -
July 1997

       B.A. (Licenciatura) in Translation and Interpreting

• Languages: English, Chinese, German, Dutch and Spanish.
• Majors: legal-economic and scientifical-technical.
• Text book scholarship awarded for the best academic performance.

Thames Valley Univ.
London (UK)
March 1997

       Diploma in legal translation (Erasmus PIC 96-UK-1375)

• Legal translation, English, Portuguese.

Univ. of Portsmouth
Portsmouth (UK)
February - July 1995

       Diploma in English studies

• English language, translation (part of the Erasmus exchange programme).

University of Murcia
Murcia (Spain)
October 1990 -
July 1993

       B.A. in English Studies (only 1st and 2nd years)

• English language, teaching, linguistics.

University of Alcalá /
eSIN Consultores
Barcelona (Spain)
October 2003 -
March 2004

       Consultant-Expert in Internet and e-Commerce Applications
       (online course, 250 hours)

• Development and co-ordination of complex IT-based projects.
• Management of IT companies and web portals.
• Network architecture, web mastering, web page editing, e-commerce.

Parker Academy
Barcelona (Spain)
May 2003

       Professional Web Development with Dreamweaver MX (35 hours)

• Designing for the World Wide Web. Visual aspect of web pages: HTML and CSS.
• Content management: XML. Web promotion. Security on the Net.

Centre du Traduction, European Union
Luxembourg
28 September 2001

       Quality - A Measurable Deliverable?

• Seminar for language service providers of the CdT.

ELRA, European Commission
Granada (Spain)
28 - 30 May 1998

       First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

• Linguistic resources, machine translation evaluation, lexical acquisition, evaluation in NLP, speech processing and evaluation.

University of Malaga
Malaga (Spain)
1996 / 1997

       I / II International Conference on Translation and Interpreting

• Legal translation, language engineering, teaching.

University of Granada
Granada (Spain)
25 - 27 November 1996

       Translation of legal texts - Sworn/certified translation

• English, German.

Goethe Institut
Granada (Spain)
1995 – 1996

       Mittelstuffe II (now level C1.2)

• German.

Official School of Languages of Murcia
Murcia (Spain)
1990 - 1993

       German, Italian, French, English

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd years of German; 1st, 2nd of Italian; 1st, 2nd of French; 4th of English.