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Dr Cristina Portalés is Full Professor at the Universitat de València. She was recently a Ramón y Cajal post-doc fellow at the Institute of Robotics and Information and Communication Technology (IRTIC) at the same university. She had formerly graduated with a double degree: Engineer in Geodesy and Cartography from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and MSc in Surveying and Geoinformation from the Technische Universität Wien (Austria). She was a research fellow at the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Vienna, 1999-2002), a PhD research fellow at the Mixed Reality Laboratory of the University of Nottingham (UK, 2005) and at the Interaction and Entertainment Research Centre of the Nanyang University of Singapore (2006). Her Doctoral Thesis, “Augmented Reality Multimedia Environments in the Arts Field”, received an outstanding award by the UPV. Author of +150 scientific publications. She is currently Member of the Joint Committee of the Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Information Visualization, between the University of Valencia and the Valencia City Council, and director of the Reseach Team DINA (Data Interaction aNd Augmentation). Her research interests are focused on data visualization, computer vision, augmented reality and digital Cultural Heritage. She has a strong interdisciplinary profile and has special interest in the emerging collaborative work between ICT and SSH researchers.