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Manuel Liz (PhD in Philosophy from the Unversidad de Salamanca) is a Full Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Education and Language at the University of La Laguna. He teaches in the Faculty of Philosophy at the same university. He has published a wide range of works on a wide range of topics and problems in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, ethics and metaphysics. He has supervised many doctoral theses and has participated in numerous research projects. +
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Basil Al Hadithi (Ph.D. in process control and artificial intelligence from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; B. Sc. and M. Sc. in control and system engineering from the Baghdad University of Technology). He is a Full Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid where he has served since 1997. Previously he was a scholar at Universidad Alfonso X, Madrid, and at the University of Baghdad, Irak. His research interests include fuzzy logic, adaptive control and electronic design. +
Blanca Rodríguez Bravo is a Full Professor of Library and Information Science at the University of León (Spain), where she has served since 1991 and as a Full Professor since 2019.<br>Her first line of research is focused on the Organization of Knowledge. In this path, she collaborated with scholars from other universities from Spain and abroad as is the case of her participation in the BITrum-Research Group for the Interdisciplinary Study of Information. She has investigated the processes (Indexing mainly) and the systems of knowledge organisation (Dewey Decimal Classification; Universal Decimal Classification, ontologies, lists of subject headings, taxonomies and thesauri). In 2003, she started another line of research dedicated to information behaviour, the consumption of electronic information, particularly e-journals, the relationship between downloads and citations and the profitability of the investment on big deals from the main publishers. To these aims, she obtained grants for a dozen projects funded by the Spanish government. In 2014, she joined CIBER Research Ltd., the research group led by David Nicholas, participating in projects aimed at the study of habits and practices of scientific communication in the digital society. In 2016, the international team started a line of research that investigated the attitudes and activities of Early Career Researchers regarding scientific communication. In November 2020, a new grant was obtained, to continue delving into this research and learning about the impact of the pandemic. On this occasion, they cooperated with the researchers attached to Carol Tenopir's research group at the University of Tennessee. Since 2023, they investigated the impact of AI on novel researchers. Nowadays she also works in the field of Academic Integrity and ethics with colleagues that belong to the Iberoamerican network of academic integrity. +
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Carlos Aguilar (PhD in Education and Communication from the University of Barcelona) is a Councillor of the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia and President of the European Board for Media Services as of 2025. He was graduated in Physics and carried out his doctoral research at the University of Barcelona, in the Department of Plastic and Visual Education Didactics, within the field of semantics, audiovisuals and logic, obtaining the PhD award in 2012 for his doctoral thesis: Information processing in the audiovisual contents, sueprvised by Dr. Lydia Sánchez and Manuel Campos. +
Christian Fuchs is an Austrian social scientist. From 2013 until 2022 he was Professor of Social Media and Professor of Media, Communication & Society at the University of Westminster, where he also was the Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). Since 2022, he has been Professor of Media Systems and Media Organisation at Paderborn University. He is an editor for the open access journal tripleC: Communications, Capitalism & Critique. Fuchs is also the co-founder of the ICTs and Society-network, a researcher network that studies societal and digital media interactions. He is the editor of the book series 'Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies', which he helped establish in 2015.<br> Fuchs has been an influential voice within the area of social media and internet critique, his work is influenced by the critical theory school of thought. Fuchs' expertise includes social theory, critical theory, critical digital and social media research, Internet & society, the political economy of media and communications, and information society theory. +
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Estela Mastromatteo (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1961; Doctoral studies in Education at Universidad Abierta Interamericana; Master in Communication and Information for Development; and Bachelor in Library Science by the Central University of Venezuela) is an independent consultant in Montevideo (uruguay). She was a Professor at the School of Librarianship and Archives, Central University of Venezuela since 1997. She is a consultant in academic libraries and a member in several research groups. Her research interests are on the areas of curriculum for information studies, library and information science epistemology and information ethics in Latin America. +
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Francisco Salto (Doctor in Philosophy by the Universidad de Salamanca) is a Full Professor at the Universidad de León in the field of Logic and Philosophy of Science. He is a founding member and co-director –together with Dr Díaz-Nafría– of the BITrum-Research Group for the Interdisciplinary Study of Information (with headquarters in León but constituted by an international network of researchers). Within this framework, Dr. Salto has backed up the fields of logic, foundations of mathematics, information philosophy and epistemology in tight collaboration with cognitive and computing scientists. In these areas, he has made significant contributions to logical validity, verifiability, semantic processing, paraconsistence and identity. A current line of research (supported for instance by the APP-TIVATE project) is the study of paraconsistent deduction in cognition and its application to machine learning since the problem of paraconsistency represents the strive to join interdisciplinary knowledge into a transdisciplinary setting. +
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Gordana Dodig-Crnković is Professor at Chalmers University of Technology and Mälardalen University in Sweden. She holds PhD degrees in Physics and Computer Science. Her current research are in the connection between morphological computation, information and cognition and philosophy of computing, relating conceptual analysis of computational approaches to fields from physics to biology and cognition, to value-based computational design. Dodig-Crnković has many years of experience of teaching of philosophy of science and ethics for technology students, with special focus on new and emerging technologies. +
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Dr. Morato has a degree in Science from Alcala University and a PhD in Documentation from Carlos III University (UC3M). He has a certificate of pedagogical aptitude from the Universidad Complutense. In 1999, he presented his doctoral thesis on quality indicators of medical texts in natural language. In 1990, he started working in LIS at the National Research Center (CSIC). Since 1994, he has been a researcher at the UC3M. From 1997 to 1999, he was awarded several research scholarships in the computer science department of Universidad Carlos III, which became a teaching contract in 2000. Ever sincee, he has taught in the Computer Science and the Information Science departments, focusing on issues related to accessibility, knowledge organisation and information retrieval, in web environments. <br> As of 2025: He has received, since 2009, 30 teaching awards and the last six research or teaching congratulations awarded biannually by the UC3M. He has directed: five PhD theses, one awarded with distinctions and another with a European mention, 14 master thesis, and 28 bachelor theses. He has participated in 6 national projects, one as coordinator, two European projects and 4 international projects. He has also collaborated in 19 projects with companies (art. 83), being responsible for 11 of them, most of them competitive. By those means, he has created the infrastructure for training more than 7,000 health professionals in medical vocabularies (ICD-10), the largest national effort in controlled vocabularies in this area to date. <br>He has published more than one hundred contributions. Among them, 30 JCR and 27 Scopus articles, and publications in first-level books. +
José Antonio Moreiro (PhD. in History from the National University of Distance Education, Spain) is an Emeritous Professor at the Department of Library and Information Science of Carlos III University of Madrid, where he was chair of the Information Engineering Group, conducting research on knowledge organization systems. He has tought courses on Knowledge Organization Systems and Indexing Techniques. He has a strong record of scientific publications and has participated in many national and international research projects. He was a member of 12 publication committees. He has close connections with Latin American universities. Jose Antonio taught courses and organized seminaries in many European and Latin American universities, as well as professional institutions. He was a scientific advisor for numerous doctoral dissertations in the domain of Library and Information Science. +
José María Díaz Nafría (Salamanca, 1970; PhD in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; MS & BS in Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) is a Professor at the Universidad a Distancia de Madrid; Visiting Professor at the Polytechnic University of Munich (Germany) since 2011, and Researcher at the University of León (Spain) since 2010.<br>
Previously, he has held various positions: as a researcher at the Vienna University of Technology (1996) and at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (1997-2003); as a lecturer at the Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio (1997-2009); as a researcher at the Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, Ecuador (2014-2017). He has been a visiting and invited professor at numerous universities in Germany, Spain, Ecuador, Austria, Sweden and Greece. He was Head of the Telecommunication Engineering department from 2021 to 2024.<br> He is a member of the management team of the Institut für Design Science (Germany), of the International Society of Information Studies (Austria) of which he is currently co-President-elect, of the Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society (Austria), of the International Center for Information Ethics (Germany), of the BITrum-Research Group (Spain) of which he is President, as well as in the editorial teams of several scientific journals. His research work focuses on interdisciplinary research methodologies (including plain language), the unification of the information concept, systems theory, the observation problem - general and applied to radiant systems-, and knowledge integration systems. +
Juan Miguel Aguado (PhD in communication studies at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, and Postgraduate Degree in philosophy and sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) is a Full Professor of communication theory in the school of communication and information studies at the University of Murcia (Spain). He is member of the Research Committee on Sociology of Communication, Culture and Knowledge (RC14) and the Research Committee on Socio cybernetics at the International Sociological Association (ISA). His research and publications focus on epistemology of communication, complexity and constructivism as well as on the social impact of technology, mobility and the role of experiential mediation in cultural consumption processes. +
Julio Ostalé (MS and BS in Philosophy from the Universidad de Salamanca; MS and BS in Humanities from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) is a Lecturer of Philosophy at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and at the Universidad Nacional de Edicación a Distancia (Spain). Previously, he was a lecturer at the Universidad de Vigo (Spain) and Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR) and served as a researcher at the Universidad de Salamanca, and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones científicas (CSIC). He has been a researcher at BITrum Research Group since its origins. He was a chief editor of the Journal of Philosophy Factotum and has been translator to Spanish of work from K. Popper, F. Dreske, W. Hodges among others. His research interests are focused on Logics, Philosophy of Information, Artificial Intelligence. +
Jérôme Segal (born 26 December 1970) is a French-Austrian essayist and historian, lecturer at Sorbonne University and a researcher and journalist in Vienna. He was former Science Attaché at the French Embassy, Vienna, Austria; researcher at the Ecole normale, Paris, and Assistant Professor at IUFM, Paris and at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science. Among his numerous publications is worth mentioning his famous book Le Zéro et le Un. Histoire de la notion scientifique d’information au 20e siècle. +
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MS in Documentation by the Universidad Carlos III (Madrid), BS in Biblioteconomy and Documentation by the Universidad de León. She is in charge of the Information, Communication and Dissemination Unit of the Central Library of the Universidad de León and is Secretary General of BITrum Research Group. She is currently working on her PhD. entitled The Academic Librarian: A Trusted and Active Partner in Universities. +
Lydia Sánchez (PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University) is an Associate Professor in the area of Audiovisual Communication in the Faculty of Computer Science and Audiovisual Media at the University of Barcelona. She focuses her research on the democratic quality of the media, epistemology and communication theory. She is a member of the consolidated research group in Didactics of History, Geography and other Social Sciences, and Communication, and is part of the consolidated teaching innovation group in communication and audiovisual media. As of 2025, is principal investigator of the project: ‘Media education and the information diet as indicators of the capacity for critical analysis of information content in future teachers’. +
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Manuel Campos Havidich (Born in Barcelona in 1957) was graduated in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona (UB) in 1987, and obtained his doctorate at Stanford University with the thesis entitled Analyticity Revisited and remained there as a researcher until 1996. He is currently Professor of Philosophy of Science in the Department of Logic at the UB. +
Margariza Vazquez (PhD in Philosophy from the Unversidad de Salamanca) is a Professor at the he Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Education and Language at the University of La Laguna. She teaches in the Faculty of Philosophy at the same university, supporting the field of Logic and Philosophy of Science. She has focused among other research interests on epistemology, information, systems and philosphy of science. +
Mario Pérez-Montoro is a (full) Professor in the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media at the University of Barcelona (Spain). He holds a PhD in Philosophy and Education from the University of Barcelona (Spain) and a Master in Information Management and Systems from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain). He studied at the Istituto di Discipline della Comunicazione at the Università di Bologna (Italy) and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University (California, USA) and at the School of Information at UC Berkeley (California, USA). His work has focused on interactive communication and information visualization. +
Mark Burgin (1946-2023; M.A. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Moscow State University and Doctor of Science in Logic and Philosophy from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) was a Professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA; at the Institute of Education, Kiev; at International Solomon University, Kiev; at Kiev State University, Ukraine; and was a Director of the Assessment Laboratory, Research Center of Science, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was Chief Editor of the International Journal Integration: Mathematical Theory and Applications, the International Journal Information, and Associative Editor of the International Journal on Computers and their Applications.<br>
Dr. Burgin carried out research, published, and taught courses in mathematics, computer science, information sciences, artificial intelligence, logic, psychology, education, social sciences, and methodology of science. Dr. Burgin authorized and co-authorized more than 500 papers and 20 books. Among his very broad scientific production is worth to mention his book Theory of Information. Fundamentality, Diversity and Unification (World Scientific Publishing, 2010), which sets groundings for a research on General Theory of Information as formal foundations for a unifying approach to information. +