Francisco Saez de Adana

Francisco Saez de Adana is Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Alcalá in Spain. He obtained a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering in 2000. He worked as a faculty researcher at Arizona State University in 2003, as a visiting professor at the same university in 2013 and as a visiting professor at the University of Technology of Sydney in 2008. Prof. Saez de Adana has participated in more than 50 research projects with Spanish, European, American, and Japanese companies and universities related to computational electromagnetics. In this field has published two books, 32 papers in peer-reviewed journals, three book chapters, and more than 60 conference contributions at international symposia. 

In 2014 he changed his field of study and started collaborating with the Franklin Institute of American Studies at the University of Alcalá on topics related with visual culture and comic studies. In 2019 he obtained a PhD in communication with a thesis related to this field. He was director of the Franklin Institute between 2019 and 2022. In this new field he has published two books, 25 journal articles and 15 book chapters. He is part of the editorial board of the academic journals Studies in Comics and Sequentials as well as director of the most important Spanish academic journal in that field, CuCo, Cuadernos de Cómic. 

He teaches a visual literacy course that tries to show the potential of the image as a communication tool and the need to learn to read and write with images in today's world. He has imparted different talks and seminars on visual culture and graphic narratives in countries as United States, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Argentina or Chile, among others. He is also working on the potential of comics and graphic narratives as educational tools, particularly in the field of science.