Alfonso Carlosena
Vice Chancellor of Research, Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)

He recieved his degree and PhD in Physical Sciences from the Universidad de Zaragosa. In 1992 while working as an assistant professor at the Universidad de Zaragosa and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, he was instituted as a profesor at the Universidad Publica de Navarra.

He has been invited as a guest professor in New Mexico State University and Arizona State University.

His experience in academic direction saw him through positions at the Universidad Publica de Navarra such as Department Sub-Head, Director of the Transfer of Research Results Department (OTIR), President of the Doctorates Commission, and Vice Rector of Research.

Other activities to highlight would be his participation as a member of the Committee of Teaching Techniques of the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA), and as Secretary of the counterpart Committee of the Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation for the Basque University System (UNIBASQ).