Rubén C. Lois-González has been a Professor of geography of the University of Santiago de Compostela since 2007 (previously Senior Lecturer and Lecturer). His specialties are urban and cultural geography.Prof. Lois-González authored of over 150 indexed articles in academic journals as Annales de Géographie, Die Erde, Mobilities. European Planning Studies, Land, Use & Policy, Sustainibility, Gender, Place and Culture, Tourism Géographies, Tourism Management Perspectives, Sud-Ouest Européen, Scripta Nova, Boletin de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles, etc. He has been principal investigator of European projects of the ESPON program, RISE, INTERREG and partner of FP5 or Norwegian and French programs.He has been a visiting Professor at the universities of Le Mans, Caen, Toulouse-Le Mirail (Francia), Bergen (Noruega), Federal de Bahia (Brasil) and Messina (Italy). He was a member of the Committee of Habilitation in Geography of the MIUR from 2012 until 2014 and evaluated from the ANVUR from 2016 in Italy. He has been the Coordinator of the evaluations of the National Plan of R&D in geography in Spain from 2015 and evaluator of the Romanian and Poruguese research agency.Rubén Lois-González is Vice-President of International Geographical Union (IGU) from 2018, one of the Founders of the Order of Spanish geographers, a Member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Spanish Geographers since 2017 and the Spanish Committee of the IGU today. He was a director of the network of universities Galicia-North of Portugal from 2013 to the end of 2017.
