The work package and task leader is director of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili's Intercultural Studies Group. He has led or carried out several European and Spanish funded research projects on various aspects of translation, mainly on the online training of professionals in localization and translation technologies. His recent European projects have been on the status of the translation profession in Europe (with MIME partner Université de Genève) and the relation between translation and language learning (with the University of Leicester), and he currently participates in a Marie Curie Initial Training Network. He has specific expertise in the use of translation technologies and the sociological modelling of translation and interpreting. The training of researchers is closely allied with the group’s various research projects and annual graduate conference. The group publishes the book series Translation Research Projects (2007, 2009, 2011, 2012).