Elvis Ortega-Ochoa

Elvis is an Entrepreneurial Researcher and Athlete-Runner. His research interests are empathic Pedagogical Conversational Agents, cognitive and affective scaffolding and fading, and social cognition and contagion in learning.

He is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tampere University, Research Centre of Gameful Realities. Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer and founder of EduAIA. Moreover, he was a Predoctoral Researcher in Education and ICT at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona, Spain, where he pursued his PhD. In 2024, he served as an Erasmus+ Visiting Researcher at the Chair of Information Systems and Systems Engineering at the University of Kassel in Germany, contributing to international research collaborations. Likewise, he is an athlete-runner with a 5 km personal record (PR) of 17:47 and a max-distance PR of 50 km, achieved at the Petzl Trail Plus. He has been an active member of various high-profile running clubs, including Adidas Runners.