About

I am an assistant professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Information Technologies in Talavera de la Reina, and secretary of the Department of Information Technologies and Systems. I do research on digital health and extended reality with the AIR group.

I received my PhD in 2021, cum laude and with international mention, with a thesis on immersive systems for learning to program supervised by Carlos González Morcillo and David Vallejo Fernández. I have been a visiting researcher at Leeds Beckett University (United Kingdom) and the University of Coimbra (Portugal).

In 2015 I co-founded Furious Koalas, a UCLM spin-off focused on gamification, serious games and interactive graphics applications, where I am managing director and CTO.

I was born in 1991 and grew up with floppy disks, dial-up modems and GeoCities pages. You can tell at the bottom of this site.

Feel free to write to me at santiago.sanchez@uclm.es or see the contact page.

• 2021– Assistant Professor University of Castilla-La Mancha
• 2025– Department secretary Department of Information Technologies and Systems, UCLM
• 2015– Co-founder, managing director and CTO Furious Koalas, UCLM spin-off

At Furious Koalas we build virtual and augmented reality, serious games, gamification and custom software, mostly for health and education.

• 2022–2026 Year coordinator, BSc in Computer Engineering UCLM, Talavera de la Reina. 4th year (2022–2024) and 3rd year (2024–2026)
• 2021–2021 Associate Lecturer School of Computer Science, UCLM
• 2020–2021 Software Engineer MoreLife (UK) Ltd., Leeds. Architecture of a cloud health platform
• 2017–2021 Visiting Lecturer School of Computer Science, UCLM
• 2018–2020 Research Fellow Leeds Beckett University. H2020 European project MONICA
• 2016–2019 Research Assistant School of Computer Science, UCLM
• 2015–2016 Trainee Centre for Digital Technologies and Content, UCLM
• 2013–2014 Undergraduate research assistant School of Computer Science, UCLM

• 2021 PhD in Advanced Computer Technologies University of Castilla-La Mancha. Cum laude, international mention. Thesis: “Development and Evaluation of Immersive Systems for Learning Programming”.
• 2016 MSc in Computer Engineering University of Castilla-La Mancha
• 2014 BSc in Computer Engineering University of Castilla-La Mancha
• 2014 Postgraduate Expert in Video Game Development University of Castilla-La Mancha. 750 hours, with highest honours.

• 2024 University of Coimbra Postdoctoral stay, Coimbra, Portugal. Mixed reality and telemedicine with Jorge Cardoso and Licínio Roque.
• 2018 Leeds Beckett University Predoctoral stay, Leeds, United Kingdom. Interactive systems and telemedicine with Dorothy Monekosso, within the European project MONICA.

• 2025 ANECA accreditation as Associate Professor (Profesor Titular)
• 2024 ANECA accreditation as Tenured Lecturer (Contratado Doctor)
• 2021 ANECA accreditation as Assistant Professor (Ayudante Doctor)
• 2022 CNEAI research period recognition (2016–2021)

Spanish (native) and English (B2, First Certificate in English).