Gema Santos-Hermosa
University of Barcelona
Professor
Gema Santos-Hermosa hold a Ph.D in Information Science and Communication. Her doctoral thesis discusses the development and reuse of open educational resources (OER) in higher education. She is a professor at University of Barcelona (UB), in the Information and Audiovisual Media faculty. Previously she was working as an associated lecturer at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and as a research librarian at Universitat Oberta de Cataluña (UOC). She chairs the EMPOWER Knowledge Resources expert group within the EADTU university network and coordinates the OER working group within the REBIUN (Spanish Network of Spanish Universities Libraries). She is also an active member of the European Network of Open Education Librarians (SPARC-Europe). She has several scientific publications and congresses contributions in Librarianship and Open Education. She has participated in several research projects of the State Plan for Research & Innovation on Open Access to Science in Spain (CSO2014-52830P and CSO2011-29503-C02-01).