Professors and Researchers
Rubén Calderón Iglesias
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
European University of the Atlantic’s Chancellor. BA in Economics. PhD in Education Economics. Former General Secretary of the Miguel de Cervantes European University and director of the Chair of Family Business. His line of research is focused on the analysis of the demand for education and the employment of graduates.
Graduate in Hispanic Philology, UNED, Master in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, UC-CIESE Comillas and PhD in Hispanic Philology, UAB. He has taught at university level in different centres. He is also a teacher trainer and postgraduate lecturer on the Master's Degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, UC-CIESE Comillas and the Master's Degree in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Language Teaching, UNEATLANTICO. He is a member of several research groups.
Ruth Beitia Vila
Faculty of Health Sciences
Bacherlor’s Degree in Physiotherapy and Technician in Physical Activities and Sports Animation. She has won 15 medals, including Olympic gold in High Jump at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Since 2011, she is a deputy for the Partido Popular as well as ambassador for the Padres 2.0 NGO.
Social educator. Teacher in primary, secondary and music studies. Second prize in the XXIV Certamen de Jóvenes Investigadores 2011, area of Social and Legal Sciences for the work "A strategy of analysis and modification of the degree of machismo in the youth world".
PhD in Cultural Studies (Goldsmiths, University of London), MA in Cultural Studies (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá), MA in Linguistics Applied to the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (Universidad de Jaén), and BA in Modern Languages (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá). Translator and researcher focused on decolonial poetics, cultural and language studies.
Dietician-Nutricionist and Food Technologist. Master's Degree in Applied Nutrition and Dietetics and Master's Degree in Physical Activity: Training and Sports Management. Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, and academic director of the Undergraduates in Agro-Food Engineering and Food Science and Technology.