User:Luis

Luis Manuel Vilches-Blázquez holds a Master's degree in Geography from the University of Granada (Spain) and he obtained his PhD on Geographical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He is a member of the Ontology Engineering Group of the UPM. He also holds a Master's degree in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Project Management since 2004. Additionally, he was a grant holder at the National Geographic Institute of Spain, a research center belonging to the Ministry of Civil Works (Ministerio de Fomento). During 2007 he was a visiting researcher in the Information Management Group (IMG) at the University of Manchester.

His research activities are focused on geospatial ontologies, geographical databases, information integration and disambiguation, and Linked Data. He has participated at several European (Towntology, DIGMAP and DynCoopNet) and Spanish (Geobuddies, WEBn+1, Autores 3.0, and España Virtual) projects. Within this context, he has co-authored numerous publications in books, given conferences, attended workshops, and collaborated in several R&D projects. He is also a member of the AENOR CTN_148 Geographical Information Committee, the corresponding Spanish Committee that participates in the Working Group of ISO 1950.