2019 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

87 A/P Víctor Paulós (United Kingdom) Academic Secretary of the School of Engineering. He attended the “Coursera Partners Conference” held at the University of London, London, April 2–4. Dr. Lorena Betancor (United Kingdom) Professor of Protein Technology. She conducted a research visit at the University of Warwick, where she worked with Dr. Manuela Tosin, associate professor of Organic Chemistry, with whom she initiated an academic collaboration, Coventry, April 1–10. She also participated in a research seminar with Dr. Leonardo Ríos, Professor of Synthetic Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, April 9. José Ignacio Rocca, M.Eng. (United Kingdom) Project Instructor and student in the Master’s in Engineering (Research Track). He presented the paper “Push away the smartphone: Investigating methods to counter problematic smartphone use” at The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019, organized by the Association for Computing Machinery, Glasgow, Scotland, May 4–9. Dr. Lorena Betancor (Switzerland) Professor of Protein Technology. She was appointed by the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) as Uruguay’s representative to attend a meeting in Geneva for the preparation of a Green and Sustainable Chemistry manual at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Division, Geneva, December 5–6. 15 Conducted in collaboration with Dr. Charlie Pinder, researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction Research Centre at the University of Birmingham; Dr. Russell Beale, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Research Centre at the University of Birmingham; and Dr. Benjamin Cowan, Assistant Professor at the School of Information & Communication Studies at University College Dublin. Dr. Lorena Betancor ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES ABROAD 2019