Alejandro Bia Platas
Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science 
Operating Research Center 
Miguel Hernández University 
Edificio Torretamarit
Avenida de la Universidad s/n
E-03202, Elche, ESPAÑA

Alejandro Bia has a background in computer science. He studied at ORT University, Oxford University, and at the University of Alicante.

Currently he is a full time lecturer at the Miguel Hernández University, within the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science. He has lectured for the Master in Digital Humanities (2005-present), and the Master in Web Technology (2005-2007), at the University of Castilla La Mancha, for the Department of Languages and Information Systems (2002-2004) and the Department of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis (2002) of the University of Alicante, and at ORT University (1990-1996).

His lecture topics are: text markup using XML and TEI, digital libraries, software engineering, project management, concurrent programming, operating systems, computer architecture, computer networks and English for computer sciences.

At present, he participates in an emergent digitisation project: the Atenea project of the University of Málaga. In 2006-2008 has cooperated with the Bibliotheca Europa project of the University of Alicante. In 2005, he has done consultancy work for the National Library of Spain. From 1999 to 2004, he has been Head of Research and Development of the Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library at the University of Alicante. Previously, he has worked as Special-Projects Manager at NetGate (1996), and as Documentation Editor of the GeneXus project at ARTech (Advanced Research and Technology) (1991-1994).

His current interests are the application of software engineering methods and techniques to digital libraries and to enhance document structure design, multilingual markup languages, digitisation automation by computer means, digital preservation, digitisation metrics and cost estimates.

He is an active member of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, and has been elected member of the TEI Council (2002-2004 and 2004-2006 periods) and of the Executive Committee of the ALLC (2004-2008 and 2008-2011).