Biography

Carlos Santos is an assistant professor at the University of Aveiro with a PhD in information and communication in digital platforms, an MSc in electronics and telecommunications engineering, and a graduate in electronics and telecommunications engineering.
Since 2021, he has been the Programme Director of the Master in Communication and Web Technologies. From 2016 to 2023, he was the Programme Director of the Master in Multimedia Communication at Universidade de Aveiro.
From 2008 to 2015, he was the executive coordinator and lead researcher of the SAPO Labs at the University of Aveiro R&D initiative. Since 2009, he has been the research coordinator of the "Campus by Fundação Altice” R&D project (https://campus.altice.pt). Since 2016, he has been the technical lead researcher of the Global Portuguese Scientists (GPS) platform (https://gps.pt).
His research interests are related to Personal Learning Environments, the promotion of Web 2.0 tools in educational contexts, gamification, recommendation systems, technology for building communities, and peer-leaning with games. He is (co-)author of 6 books on the topic of Multimedia Technologies for secondary-level teaching and learning and also has (co-) authored over 80 scientific publications (journals/conference papers and book chapters) on subjects related to ICT, EdTech, TEL, and PLEs. He is a Program Committee member for various national and international conferences in the referred scientific fields.
Since 2021, he has been vice-coordinator of the DigiMedia Research Unit. From 2020 to 2023, he coordinated the DigiMedia research group on "Social Media and Learning."