Murat Akpinar, JAMK University of Applied Sciences (Finlandia)

Dr. Akpinar earned his PhD in International Business at Turku University, Turku School of Economics in Finland. He is the Academic Coordinator for the Master degree programme in international business management and leads the research line of competitiveness and internationalisation under JAMK Centre for Competitiveness at JAMK University of Applied Sciences. He is a member of Michael Porter’s Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) network at Harvard Business School and a member of the Competitiveness Institute (TCI).

María Jesús Fernández Gil, University of Alcalá

Philology and a MA in Translation and Intercultural Mediation from the University of Salamanca in 2011. Her main field of research deals with the Holocaust and Translation Studies. She has published articles in both national and international journals and chapter contributions as well as two monographs: Traducir el horror: la intersección de la ética, la ideología y el poder en la memoria del Holocausto (Peter Lang, 2013) and El papel (est)ético de la literatura en la conmemoración del Holocausto (Dykinson, 2013). At present, she is a PhD Assistant Professor at the Universidad Alcalá in Madrid, where she teaches subjects related to translation and English.

Julia Huttner, University of Southampton (Gran Bretaña)

Julia Hüttner is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on foreign language learning and teaching, more specifically on classroom discourse analysis, genre analysis Content and Language Integrated Instruction (CLIL), English Medium Instruction (EMI), teacher cognition and language teacher development. Her publications include Academic writing in a foreign language: an extended genre analysis of student texts (Peter Lang, 2007) and the edited volume Theory and Practice in EFL Teacher Education: Bridging the Gap (Multilingual Matters, 2012) as well as numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, System and International Journal of Applied Linguistics.

For more information see http://www.southampton.ac.uk/ml/about/staff/jh15g09.page

And https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julia_Huettner 

Piotr Krawczyk, JAMK University of Applied Sciences (Finlandia)

María Ángeles Martínez Martínez, Complutense University of Madrid

BA in English Philology (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), MSc in Teaching English  (Aston University, UK), and PhD in English Linguistics (Complutense University of Madrid). She is Coordinator of the Degree in English Studies at the Complutense University. Her research is in the field of cognitive stylistics and narrative engagement, and her work has been published in collective volumes and in several national and international journals.

JoAnne Neff van Aertselaer, Complutense University of Madrid

Dr JoAnne Neff van Aertselaer (Honorary Professor, Department of English Studies I, UCM). She holds a B.A. degree from Indiana University, a Master’s degree in Linguistics from Lancaster (UK) and a PhD from Complutense University. She was Director of the English Studies Department (1994-2000) and also of the Complutense Language Institute (2001-2009). She has led 5 national and international research projects, among them the Spanish component of the International Corpus of Learner English (Louvain) and the Spanish team of the English Profile Network (Cambridge). She has published more than 60 articles on academic English, EFL and discourse analysis. Among co-edited volumes are: Contrastive Pragmatics, Along the Routes to Power and Communicating Ideologies (with M. Pütz). Her most recent publication is a chapter on “Discourse” in the Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research (Granger et al, Louvain, 2015).

Heidi Neuvonen, JAMK University of Applied Sciences (Finlandia)

David Pascual Ezama, Complutense University of Madrid

Dr. Pascual Ezama is interested in dishonesty and business ethics and behavioral accounting and investors’ decision making. He is studding the roll of incentives in workers’ performance and dishonesty in a labor market organization and the individual investors’ behavior and in particular the roll of the accounting information in their decision making. Finally, he recently started to research about neuroeconomics of decision making. He is member of MIT Sloan neuroeconomics lab. Dr. Pascual Ezama training includes BA in Business Administration at University of Oviedo, MBA at Instituto de Empresa and PhD in Psychology at Universidad Autónoma Madrid.

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Ute Smit, University of Vienne (Austria)

Ute Smit is Associate Professor at the Department of English Studies, University of Vienna. Her main research interest lies in English (as medium of instruction) in (higher) education from the perspectives of CLIL, English as a lingua franca, classroom discourse, participant beliefs and language policy research. Her publications include English as a Lingua Franca in Higher Education (de Gruyter, 2010), Language Use and Language Learning in CLIL Classrooms (Benjamins, 2010) and numerous journal articles (e.g. in Applied Linguistics, International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, System). She was founding convener of the AILA Research Network on “Content & Language Integrated Learning & Immersion Classrooms Education”.