Dr. Luis Anido-Rifón (Lugo, 1973) has a PhD in Telecommunication Engineering (2001) from the University of Vigo with honors and awards by the University of Vigo, the Galician Government and the Spanish Ministry of Education. He graduated both in the Telematics and Communication branches. He has received awards from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Official Spanish Telecommunication Association. Since 2009, he serves as Full Professor.
He combines an intense research activity backed by his participation more than 60 project from competitive calls and whose outcomes are more than 350 peer reviewed papers - more than 60 JCR-indexed journals - with a very active knowledge transfer to the industry, having leaded 97 contracts. He managed research and transfer activities with a budget over 6M euro. His whole academic research career has been focused on the design and development of innovative solutions for different e-services.
He was a pioneer researcher at national and European level in the field of Standards and Specifications for Learning Technologies (SSLT) developing five technical specifications published by CEN. In this area he published more than 120 papers, including more than 20 JCR-indexed journals, and participated as principal investigator in several EU-funded projects.
He was also heavily involved in the field of e-government in the period 2004-2013, where he published more than 30 papers, including 10 JCR-indexed journals, leaded 2 projects supervised one PhD.
In 2009, he started a new research activity in e-health for the elderly. In this field, he was the PI of 15 research contracts with the administration and private companies. He promoted the SeniorTV project and leaded its submission to the AAL call in 2014, which rated 35 out of 35 for the first time in the AAL programme. He supervised three PhD in this area and authored 19 JCR-indexed journals (mainly Q1 and Q2).
