Ana Maria Roldan Riejos

Dr. Ana Roldán-Riejos is an Associate Professor in UPM (Madrid Technical University) where she has been teaching English for engineering at the Civil Engineering School for several decades. She leads the research group DICYTEC (UPM) from 2009, which currently investigates phraseological and technical language. She was invited as an International Researcher to Imperial College of London in 2014 for six months. Her main research area is focused on specialised language and phraseology as well as cognitive linguistics. She has published research articles in international journals and presented papers in conferences on Linguistics and Education for engineers in Europe and USA and works for the EU as an external expert since 2016. She has supervised and evaluated over 15 PhD dissertations and taught doctorate courses. Prof. Roldán-Riejos has co-authored various books and most recently the Bilingual Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Metaphors and Metonymies Spanish-English/English-Spanish (Routledge 2016). She has received official recognition for her published works across various research periods.