He works as a consultant and researcher on the implementation and design of Serious(Applied) Games and Gamification campaigns. Oscar teaches in the first Videogame and Serious Games University School in Barcelona (ENTI-UB), an online Master in Gamification & Transmedia Storytelling (IEBS) and the Serious Games Lab incubator initiative. Oscar is an active member of the EU Research community in projects such as Gamewise, gameBIZ, Playing for Real, JamToday, Robogenius, interSTEM and i-Game. In addition to that, Oscar partners as a senior Gamification consultant in Cookie Box, a Gamification consultancy. He belongs to the Forbes’s Top 100 list of Creative people and he’s a TEDx lecturer.
Dr. Oscar García Pañella holds a PhD degree in Electronic Engineering and a Post Doc in Entertainment Technology. He's enjoyed several stages abroad, like at the IMSC (Integrated Media Systems Center, USC, USA, 1998), at the VIS Lab (UCI, USA, 2005) and at the Entertainment Technology Center (CMU, USA, 2008-2009).
Best Graduate Final Thesis 1999 awarded by Epson (Rosina Ribalta Prize)
