Prof. Dr. Oscar Mayora Ibarra obtained his Ph. D. in Electronic Engineering and Informatics at DIBE, University of Genoa, Italy, in 2000. In the same year, he joined the Advance Interactive Systems Laboratory at VTT Electronics in Oulu, Finland, as an ERCIM Visiting Research Fellow. In August 2001, he was appointed Associate Professor in Computer Science at Tecnológico de Monterrey, where he became head of the Graduate Program in Computer Science. From 2004 to 2016, he was Head of the Ubihealth area at Create-Net. Dr. Mayora is a senior member of the ACM and SIG-CHI and was former president of ACM SIG-CHI for Mexico. Dr. Mayora is the founder of Pervasive Health Conference and was chairman of the steering committee from 2006 to 2020. Dr. Mayora has coordinated research projects at the national and international level. Since January 2017, Dr. Mayora has been a senior researcher at FBK Center of Digital Health and Wellbeing, Scientific Coordinator of the EIP-AHA Trentino Reference Site on Active and Healthy Ageing, responsible for the project coordination of the TrentinoSalute4.0 initiative and adjunct professor in the Faculty of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Trento and the University for Applied Science, FH-Burgenland, Austria. Currently, Dr. Mayora is the Head of the Digital Health Research Unit at FBK, focusing on digital therapy interventions and the innovative use of virtual reality for healthcare.
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Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy