Dr. Sebastian Xambo-Descamps is Full Professor of Information and Coding Theories at the Applied Mathematics Department at UPC (since 1993), held a position of Full Professor of Algebra at the Algebra Department of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (1989-1993) and a position of Professor of Geometry and Topology at the University of Barcelona (1982-1989, ). Dr. Xambo was the President of the Executive and Organizing Committees of the 3ecm (Third European Congress of Mathematics, Barcelona, July 2000) and the President of the Catalan Mathematical Society (1995-2002), an institution that belongs to the Institute of Catalan Studies (which in particular acts as the Catalan Academy). From 1998 to 2002 he served as vice-rector of UPC for Information and Documentation Services (the platform Athenea, which supports most of the e-learning at UPC, was developed under his mandate). The work on WIRIS began in the mid nineties, first on the design and development of the computational engine and later in connection with Maths for More. Author of the WIRIS-propelled e-book on Block-Error Correcting Codes. At present he serves as Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics of UPC (which has two doctoral programmes with certified quality).

Competences in WebALT
expert in internet platforms for doing, teaching and learning mathematics
developer of on-line, mathematically interactive, materials (most notably http://www.wiris.com/cc/)
broad experience in interactive geometry
experience in mathematical knowledge management