Raquel Hijon-Neira
Department of Computing and Statistics, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenierı´a Informática, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain Raquel Hijón-Neira received the European Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, in 1998 and 2010, respectively.She worked as a Computer Science Engineer for 5 years and as an Instructor at the university for 15 years. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, and a member of the Laboratory of Information Technologies in Education (LITE). Her research areas are software for programming education, human–computer interaction, and serious games.Dr. Hijón-Neira received the Best Thesis Award by the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society.