Elisa Martinez Marroquin

Interested in Higher Education, tech transfer, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

Elisa Martinez Marroquin received her B.Sc degree in Telecommunications Engineering, M.Sc. and PhD degrees in Electronic Engineering from La Salle School of Engineering, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain. She has additional professional education (Master in Project Management and an Executive Program on Leadership and Management Skills by ESADE Business School) and specialization education (Master in Computer Vision and Master in Signal and Information Theory and Processing). She was a faculty member of La Salle School of Engineering as Assistant Professor from 1996-01 and as Associate Professor from 2001-11. There she served as Head of Discipline for 8 years, during which she led the creation of the Multimodal Processing Research Group and the associated Technology Transfer Unit. Both the Research Group and the Technology Transfer Unit were recognized by the Catalan Government for their quality (SGR and Tecnio accreditations). She then became the director of the Master of Research in Information Technology and Management at La Salle-URL, of which she has been in charge for 4 years. She was appointed Director of the Msc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Barcelona School of Management (Pompeu Fabra University-UPF) in 2012 and lectured Coorporate Entrepreneurship at Tecnocampus School of Engineering (Technical University of Catalonia-UPC, Barcelona, Spain). In 2013, she joined the University of Canberra (Australia), currently a Professor in the role of Associate Dean at the Faculty of Education, Science, Tehnology and Marhematics.

Dr. Martínez is author of a patent and numerous papers published in international journals and conferences. She has participated in 20 research projects of which she has coordinated 9, and has been responsible of 10 technology transfer projects. She has proved to be an effective fundraiser for these projects. She serves as independent expert of the European Commission for the evaluation of ICT projects submitted to the EU Research Framework Programme since 2004 and collaborates, as reviewer, with the Spanish National Evaluation and Foresight Agency, as well as with the Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants. She holds a lecturer accreditation and a research accreditation accredited by the Catalan Agency for Quality in Higher Education. She also holds the PRINCE2 International Accreditation.