Martín Llamas-Nistal (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, in 1986 and 1994, respectively. He has been a Faculty Member with the Higher Technical School of Telecommunication Engineers, University of Vigo, Spain, since March 1987. Since 2020, he is Director of the atlanTTic Research Center for Telecommunication Technologies.

He is the author or a co-author of more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed international refereed journals and conference proceedings. He has directed several national and international research projects in telematics and technology-enhanced learning fields. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, since its founding from 2008 to 2013, where he has been an Associate Editor, since 2014 to 2019.

He has received several awards from the W3C and from the IEEE. He was the General Co-Chair of IEEE EDUCON 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2018. He was the Co-Founder of the IEEE Latin-American Learning Technologies Journal (IEEE-RITA), in 2006, and has been the Editor-in-Chief since its founding to July 2021. He has been serving in different positions in the Education Society of the IEEE: Vice-President for Publications, from 2011 to 2018, Vice-President for Member and Geographic Activity, from 2019 to 2020, President Elect from 2021 to 2022, and currently President from 2023 to 2024.