Staff

Joaquín Huerta Guijarro

Coordinator

Email:  huerta@uji.es

Phone: (+34) 964 38 76 84

Website: huerta.name

Prof. Joaquín Huerta is full professor in the Department of Information Systems at UJI. He holds a Degree in Computer Science and a Master’s Degree in Computer Aided Design from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), and a PhD in Computer Science Engineering from  UJI. His main activities involve research in smart cities/campuses, Internet technologies, Augmented reality, 3D models, Web 2.0, contextual systems, sensor networks and GIS application development.

Michael Gould

Co-Coordinator

Email: gould@uji.es

Phone: (+34) 964 38 76 82 

Michael Gould received his PhD in GIS at the University of Buffalo, and has been a associate professor of GIS at Universitat Jaume I since 1997. He has directed many R&D projects at the local, national and European levels, as well as 4 PhD theses (others in progress). His research interests include distributed GIS, Smart Cities, and hybrid FOSS/proprietary interoperability. He now works part-time at UJI because since December 2008 he began working at Esri (California), currently as Global Education Manager working mostly in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Sven Casteleyn

Associate Professor

Email: sven.casteleyn@uji.es

Phone: (+34) 964 38 76 93  

Sven Casteleyn is an associate professor at the University Jaime I (UJI), Castellón, Spain. He previously held a five year Ramón y Cajal fellowship (UJI) and a two year European Marie Curie individual fellowship (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia), and various post- and pre-doctoral research positions at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, from which he holds a Ph.D. and a Master degree. His research interests lie primarily within the broad field of Web engineering, mobile computing, geographic information science and technology applied to various applications fields, primarily mental health.

Carlos Granell Canut

Associate professor

Email: carlos.granell@uji.es

Phone: (+34) 964 38 76 82

Website: carlosgranell.eu

Carlos Granell is associate professor at UJI. He previously held a 5-year Ramón y Cajal post-doctoral fellowship, worked for 3 years as a postdoc in the Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (Italy), and was a post- and pre-doctoral researcher during the period 2003-2010 at the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón, from which he holds a Ph.D. (2006). His research interests lie in multi-disciplinary GIS,  spatial analysis & visualization applied to mental health and mobility, and reproducibility research practice in GIScience.

Jose Francisco Ramos Romero

Associate professor

Email: jromero@uji.es

Jose Francisco Ramos is an Associate Professor at the Computer Languages and Systems Department at UJI (Spain). He got his Ph.D. with honours from this University in 2008. His research interests are in the areas of mobile interaction, computer graphics, visualization, GIS and Machine Learning applied to industries. 

Sergi Trilles Oliver

Postdoc researcher

Email: strilles@uji.es

Phone: (+34) 964 38 76 86

Website: http://www3.uji.es/~strilles/

Sergio Trilles has a Ph.D. in Integration of Geospatial Information from the Jaume I University in 2015 and he is currently a postdoctoral fellow at University Jaime I, holding a Juan de la Cierva‐Incorporación fellowship. His research lines are centred on geospatial fields such as the Internet of Things (sensors), interoperability, geoprocessing or web mapping. He is the author of more than 50 journal and conference peer‐reviewed publications.

Joaquín Torres Sospedra

Postdoc Researcher

Email: jtorres@uji.es

Phone: (+34) 964 38 76 83    

Website: http://jtorr.es/

Joaquín Torres-Sospedra is a researcher at the Institute of New Imaging Technologies, UJI. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (September 2003) and a PhD with distinction (September 2011), both from Universitat Jaume I. His main research interests are in the areas of Indoor Location & Positioning, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Multiple Classifier Systems, Sensor Fusion, Knowledge-based Systems and Interoperability.

Alberto González Pérez

PhD student

Email: algonzal@uji.es

Phone: (+34) 964 38 76 86

Alberto González is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Science thanks to an FPU grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (FPU17/03832). Previously, he received his master’s Degree in Intelligent Systems in 2018 and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in 2017. He joined GEOTEC group via the Study and Research program during his first bachelor’s degree year (2013), a program that allows students to start their research career while they’re studying their bachelor’s degree. He has experience developing web applications, mobile applications and web services, also working with embedded hardware. He aims to expand his developer toolbox adding data scientist skills during his Ph.D. studies, concretely geospatial analysis skills.

Aida Monfort Muriach

Researcher and developer

Email: aida.monfort@uji.es

Phone: (+34) 964 38 76 85

Aida Monfort Muriach completed her Computer Engineering Bachelor (2013) and a specialization course in Advanced Web Development at Jaume I University (2010). She later received a Master’s Degree in Geospatial Technologies (2015) at a Joint Program of Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain); Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU), Münster (Germany); and Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Lisbon (Portugal). In February, 2016 she joined GEOTEC. She had worked as a mobile developer and iOS and GIS programming are among her main interests.

Águeda Gómez Cambronero

PhD student

E-mail: cambrone@uji.es

Phone: (+34) 964 38 76 86

Agueda Gómez Cambronero graduated in Video Games Design and Development at Universitat Jaume I (2017) and she concluded her studies with a Intelligent Systems master at the same university (2018). Águeda have been collaborating with GEOTEC group in projects such as SEnviro, AViMus or EO4GEO. Currently, thanks to a FPI grant from Generalitat Valenciana (ACIF/2019/278), she is pursuing her Ph.D. aiming to asses and treat patients with mental disorders or chronic pain throught video games.

Miguel Matey Sanz

PhD student

E-mail: matey@uji.es

Phone: (+34) 964 38 76 86

Miguel Matey Sanz has a bachelor’s degree and a Master in Computer Science from Universitat Jaume I. Currently, he is holding a FPU grant (Spanish Ministry of education) for pursuing his doctoral studies, and he is involved in SyMptOMS project. He  joined the GEOTEC group in 2015 via the Study and Research program to introduce students on a research carrer while they are studying their bachelor’s degree. Miguel is interested in developing mobile and web applications and indoor localization.

Juan Camilo Gómez Esguerra

Developer

E-mail: esguerra@uji.es

Phone: (+34) 964 38 76 85

Juan Camilo received his bachelor’s degree as a Cadastral and Geodetic engineer (2010) in Universidad Distrital de Bogotá, Colombia. He got an specilization in environmental management (2012) in Universidad Militar de Colombia, and received his master’s degree in IT and innovation management (2019) in Universidad de la Salle Barcelona. Juan Camilo has more than eight years of experience working with GIS (Geographic Information System). Currently, he is supporting and managing the UJI ArcGIS Software Campus license and he has a Scholarhsip into Erasmus Mundus University Master’s Degree in Geospatial Technologies.

Enrique Cueto Rubio

Researcher

E-mail: cueto@uji.es

Phone: (+34) 964 38 76 81

Enrique Cueto Rubio studied the degree of Computer Engineering (2018-2022) at the Universitat Jaume I, he was a scholarship holder in the GEOTEC group while he was in his third and fourth years working on the “Sucre” project and in 2022 he rejoined the group to work with GIS technologies.

Leonardo David Silva Fialho Soares Monteiro

Researcher

E-mail: silvafia@uji.es

Phone: (+34) 964 38 76 81

Leonardo David Silva Fialho Soares Monteiro has a bachelor’s degree in Computational Mathematics and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. In 2020 he was granted the UJI scholarship for getting started in research: COVID-19 and mobility in tourist territories. Currently he joined the GEOTEC group as a researcher of the Programa Investigo in Data Science in multidisciplinary research.

Marcos Javier Magni Mattoni

Researcher

E-mail: magni@gmail.es

Phone: (+34) 964 38 76 81

Marcos Javier Magni Mattoni is a computer engineering graduate. He has worked as an assistant researcher implementing a CNN (Convolutional neural network) to detect illness in cells called glomerulus and developing an android app that uses the MLKit from Google. He also developed a curriculum generator web app using NextJS and NodeJS.

Nazar Pysko Kopot

Researcher

E-mail: pysko@uji.es

Phone: (+34) 964 38 76 81

Nazar Pysko finished his bachelor degree in Computer Science at Universitat Jaume I in 2022 after doing two internships in computer engineering and full stack development. Via the European INVESTIGO program, just after graduating, he joined GeoTec working in the SyMptOMS project as a BackEnd Engineer. Currently, he is learning new things everyday improving his skills in computer science.

Gloria Edo

Administration

E-mail: gedo@uji.es

Phone: (+34) 964 38 76 81

Gloria Edo is currently in charge of the administrative tasks of the group, mainly related to the Erasmus Mundus Master in Geospatial Technologies.

FORMER GEOTEC MEMBERS AND COLLABORATORS

Alain Tamayo (Doctoral student) (2009-2012)

Claudia Marcela Pérez Pérez (Developer)

Sylvia Holcer (Researcher)

Ana Sanchis Huertas (Researcher) (2012-2015)

Arturo Beltrán (Doctoral student) (2009-2013)

David Rambla (Developer) (2013-2015)

Diego Gargallo (Developer) (2013-2015)

Estefanía Aguilar Moreno (Project assistant) (2014-2021)

Fernando Benítez Páez (Doctoral student GEO-C & Postdoc) 2015-2018 / 2020-2021

Ignacio Guerrero (Scholar Master in Geospatial Technologies) (2014-2019)

Irene García (Researcher) (2012-2013)

Joan Pere Avariento (Developer) (2013-2015)

Laura Díaz (Postdoc researcher) 2006-2013

Luis Rodríguez (Doctoral student and developer) (2012-2017)

Manuela Núñez (Researcher)

Mauri Benedito (Researcher) (2012-2014)

Pau Aragó (Doctoral student) (2014-2017)

David Frías (Developer) (2016-2017)

Manuel Portela (Doctoral student GEO-C) 2015-2018

Ngo Manh Khoi (Doctoral student GEO-C) 2015-2018

Mohammad Mehdi Moradi (Doctoral student GEO-C) 2015-2018

Diego Pajarito (Doctoral student GEO-C) 2015-2018

Elena Chicaiza (Scholar Master in Geospatial Technologies) 2019

Andrés Muñoz (Researcher and developer) (2016-2019)

Elena Martínez (Administration) 2016-2019

Nacho Miralles (Doctoral student) 2014-2019

Germán Mendoza (Doctoral student) 2015-2020

Dori Apanewicz (Administration)

Pavel Pascacio de los Santos (Doctoral student A-wear) (2019-2023)

Ditsuhi Iskandaryan (Doctoral student) (2019-2023)

Sahibzada Saadoon Hammad (Researcher) (2022-2023)

Darwin Quezada Gaibor (Doctoral student A-wear) (2019-2023)