General chairs

Mikhail Fominykh

Mikhail Fominykh

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Mikhail Fominykh is a researcher, developer and enthusiast in the area of technology-enhanced learning. Mikhail is serving as a Secretary and as the Education chair in the executive board of EATEL from 2021 to 2025. Mikhail holds a researcher position in the IMTEL research group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU, […]

Maria Perifanou

University of Macedonia, Greece

Dr. Maria Perifanou is an adjunct lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Italian Language & Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an adjunct academic staff at the Hellenic Open University at TESOL Master’s Programme. She works also as a senior researcher at the Smart and Mobile Learning Environments (SMILE) Lab of […]

Local chairs

Jose Ruiperez

José A. Ruipérez Valiente

University of Murcia, Spain

José is currently an Associate Professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor) at the University of Murcia, within the department of Information and Communication Engineering. He was previously an Associate Professor at Complutense University of Madrid, a Juan de la Cierva fellow at the University of Murcia and a postdoc with the MIT Teaching Systems Lab and MIT […]

Alejandro Ortega-Arranz

Universidad de Valladolid, Spain

Alejandro Ortega-Arranz received his Ph.D. degree in telecommunications engineering from Universidad de Valladolid (Spain), in 2021. Currently, he is Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Valladolid (Spain), and an active member of the GSIC-EMIC Research Group. GSIC-EMIC aims at improving the teaching and learning educational processes scientifically, and Alejandro’s main […]

Manuel León

University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Organization team

Paraskevi Topali

Radboud University, The Netherlands

Vilma Sukackė

Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Melina Rose

TH Köln, Germany

Daniele Di Mitri

DIPF, Germany

Daniele Di Mitri is a research team leader of the “Augmented Feedback” group at DIPF Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education and a lecturer at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. Daniele received his PhD entitled “The Multimodal Tutor” at the Open University of The Netherlands (2020) in Learning Analytics and wearable sensor support. […]

Maka Eradze

University of L’Aquila, Italy

Bhoomika Agarwal

Bhoomika Agarwal

Open University of the Netherlands

Short bio: Bhoomika Agarwal is a PhD candidate at the department of Technology-enhanced Learning and Innovation of the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the Open University of the Netherlands. Her PhD aims to create an Ethical Framework for Artificial Intelligence in Education. Besides her PhD, she likes to dabble in coding, poetry, origami and reading […]

Deogratias Shidende

Deogratias Shidende

DHBW Heidenheim, Germany

Manuel Jesus Gomez Moratilla

Manuel Jesus Gomez Moratilla

University of Murcia, Spain

Manuel J. Gomez is working towards a Ph.D. in. Computer Science at the University of Murcia, Spain. He obtained a B.Sc. Degree with focus on applied computing and data science, and a M.Sc. in Big Data. He is a member of the CyberDataLab in the University of Murcia, and his research interests include data mining, […]

Mohsen Saadatmand

University of Helsinki, Finland

Krist Shingjergji

Krist Shingjergji

Open University of the Netherlands

Krist Shingjergji is a Ph.D. Candidate in the group Technology Enhanced Learning and Innovation at the Open University of the Netherlands. She is working on the multidisciplinary project “Sense the Classroom,” which combines educational technologies, information systems, and AI to develop a tool that recognizes non-verbal signals and gives a cue to teachers and students in an […]

Steering committee

Katherine Maillet

Telecom SudParis, France

Marco Kalz

Heidelberg University of Education, Germany

Marco Kalz is a full professor of technology-enhanced learning at the Heidelberg University of Education. He is also affiliated to the UNESCO chair of open education of the Open University of the Netherlands. His research interest lies on the use of open education, pervasive technologies and formative assessment to support self-directed lifelong learning. He has […]

Marcus Specht

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Marcus Specht is Professor for Digital Education at the Technical University of Delft and Director of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Center for Education and Learning. He also is scientific lead of of TU Delft for the 4TU Center for Engineering Education. He received his Diploma in Psychology in 1995 and a Dissertation from the University […]

Fridolin Wild

Fridolin Wild

The Open University, United Kingdom

Prof Wild has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, journal articles, and book chapters, and seven books. His €2.7m funded project ‘Wearable Experience for Knowledge Intensive Training (WEKIT)’ investigated AR technology supporting astronauts, doctors, and engineers with immersive training. His technical leadership of the €3.9m ARETE project on building a Europe-wide competitive ecosystem for XR interactive […]

Christian Glahn

Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Denis Gillet

EPFL, Switzerland