Timothy Read is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Languages and Systems at UNED. He has held a range of positions in the university government at UNED, including Joint Pro-Vice Chancellor of Technologies in Study Centres, Managing Director of the Centre for Technological Innovation and Development (CINDETEC), Joint Pro-Vice Chancellor of Emergent Technologies and Director of Open UNED. He is the cofounder of the ATLAS research group and has directed national and international funded projects on applying TIC to LSP. In particular, he has researched on the development of collaborative tools and systems for the distance learning of LSP and is currently working in the area of mobile assisted language learning (MALL) and massive open online courses for languages (LMOOCs). He has also been a member of the scientific committee of many international conferences and has collaborated as an evaluator of national and international research project proposals.