Daniel Guasch Murillo

Position: 
Academic Director of the Chair of Accessibility of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia

Doctor. from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), with a European Doctor mention. in 2003. He is an electronic engineer and a technical engineer in telecommunications from the UPC. He is an associate professor in the Department of Network Engineering (ENTEL) since 2001. He belongs to the research group Design and Evaluation of Networks and Broadband Services (BAMPLA). He has been the academic director of the Chair of Accessibility at the UPC since 2005. In turn, he has been part of the management teams of the Escola Politècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de Vilanova I la Geltrú (EPSEVG) in the periods 2003-2005 and 2017-2020.

It focuses its research activity in a transversal way, in the field of universal accessibility. Some twenty studies on accessibility at the university stand out. He is co-editor of the international scientific journal Journal of Accessibility and Design for All (JACCES). He actively participates in scientific committees of several international congresses in the areas of ICT, Interaction and Accessibility; such as ICALT, INTERACCION, COMPDES, CIUD, CITTD, ATICA, CAFVIR or CIDUI. He has led around forty projects, competitive and non-competitive, at the national level (MEC, MCT, CDTI, GenCat, F. ONCE,…). "