OUR TEAM

A team of professionals from different areas of the academic, publishing and business sectors created Alumira. We are a multidisciplinary team, experts and passionate about our work, which faces projects as challenges and opportunities to meet our client’s objectives.

We are based in Oporto, Portugal, where we develop different projects for other places in Europe and Latin America.

DAN CERMAK

Dan Cermak has over 30 years of experience in the video game industry, teaching Video Game Design and Production classes as part of the Informatics department. In addition, he co-taught a VR/AR class in CS and has been a part of the university since the spring of 2018. Before teaching, Dan spent nearly 15 years with Volition, a Champaign Illinois video game studio known for creating high-quality console and PC video games such as the Saints Row series. Dan joined Volition in 2003 as Vice President of Production and served as General Manager for six years before leaving in 2017. In addition, he actively supports the development of various on-campus educational experiences in his role as Game Studies Coordinator.

YOCHANAN MORAN

Yochanan Moran is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in the fields of statistics and computation, specializing in modeling scientific processes. He is one of the intellectual heirs of William Stout and is a member of the research center at ISLA-Gaia «Laboratory for Statistics and Computation.

RENSE LANGE

Rense, born in the Netherlands, he studied psychology at the University of Groningen before earning his M.Sc. in computer science and Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, where he taught in both areas for eight years. He is currently the Director of the Laboratory for Statistics and Computation at ISLA-Gaia. He has worked extensively as a leading psychometrician in Educational Assessment and was responsible for the robustness of the annual testing of 1.5 million Illinois students. He is (co-) the author of over 100 articles and books in the areas of artificial intelligence, education, psychology, and psychometrics.

ALBERTO MUÑOZ CÉSPEDES

Alberto is author, editor and promoter of books and cultural and educational projects for over 25 years, with a degree in History and Geography, specializing in Contemporary History, Post-Graduation in Strategic Business Management, Specialist in Management of Social Economy Institutions, and researcher at the Center of Innovation in Social Sciences (ISLA-Universidad Lusófona, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal). He was CEO of Santillana Editores in Portugal for 20 years.

CARLOS SÁNCHEZ CERÓN

Carlos is Master's degree in Economics and postgraduate studies in Finance. He has held the positions of Deputy Director of Monetary and Credit Programming at the SHCP, Director of Financial Analysis at Banco Mexicano Somex, and Corporate Director of Risk Control at Grupo Asemex-Banpaís. Director of Risk Control at Grupo Asemex-Banpaís and Consulting Partner of GEA (Grupo de Economistas y Asociados).

OUR TEAM

TEAM BACKGROUNDS

DAN CERMAK

YOCHANAN MORAN

RENSE LANGE

ALBERTO MUÑOZ CÉSPEDES

CARLOS SÁNCHEZ CERÓN

Alumira

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