OUR TEAM
Mª Teresa Ortego Antón
Director
Dr. María Teresa Ortego Antón is a Professor in the Department of Spanish (Translation and Interpreting Area) at the University of Valladolid. Her research focuses on translation and interpreting technologies and their application to the agri-food sector.
Leonor Pérez Ruiz
Head of Administration
Dr. Leonor Pérez Ruiz is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Philology at the University of Valladolid. She teaches at the Faculty of Nursing. Her areas of expertise include languages for specific purposes, languages for academic purposes, corpus linguistics, and translation.
Purificación Fernández Nistal
Co-founder
Professor at the University of Valladolid with an distinguised academic and research career across various Spanish, European, and North American universities. Dr Fernandez Nistal co-founded the ITBYTE Research Institute with José María Bravo and has led multiple interdisciplinary research teams, both nationally and internationally. She is the Principal Investigator (PI) of research projects and transfer contracts with institutions and companies; she also advises scientific and technical publication committees, including those for ISO and AENOR.
Isabel Pizarro Sánchez
Research Analyst
Dr. Isabel Pizarro Sánchez is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Philology at the University of Valladolid, where she teaches applied linguistics, specialized languages, and specialized translation. Her research focuses on corpus-based discourse analysis, specialized languages, terminology, and specialized translation. She is a member of the ACTRES (ULe) and CITTAC (UVa) research groups.
Jaime Sánchez Carnicer
Research Analyst
Dr. Jaime Sánchez Carnicer is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Valladolid. His research, reflected in his publications, focuses on terminology, corpus linguistics, and accessibility in the context of Translation Studies.
Beatriz Méndez Cendón
Research Analyst
Dr. Beatriz Méndez Cendón is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Philology at the University of Valladolid. She is also the Academic Director of Foreign Languages at the University of Valladolid Language Center.
Isabel Peñuelas Gil
Research Analyst
Dr. Isabel Peñuelas Gil is a Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Valladolid. Her research areas include terminology, corpus linguistics, and translation and interpreting technologies.
Elena Hernández Fresno
Research Intern
Elena Hernández Fresno is an associate researcher specializing in translation technologies. Her research combines computational linguistics, machine translation, and deep learning to optimize translation systems. Elena has international experience, having both studied and taught university courses abroad, as well as training in multilingual digital environments.
Brian Harris
Co-founder
Professor Harris, a leading researcher in translation, known for coining the term translatology and developing Natural Translation Theory. He published influential works in the field and led groundbreaking projects on machine translation and interpreting education.
José María Bravo Gozalo
Co-founder
Professor at the University of Valladolid in the Department of English Philology. He has several publications focused on English-Spanish contrastive analysis and has directed several national and international projects.