Board of Directors
Director of Communication
Obtained M.Sc. in telecommunication engineering from the Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain, and received his PhD in telecommunication engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid with a dissertation on “Contributions to the electromagnetic inverse problem”. He was also awarded with a M.A. in Philosophy by the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). He is currently visiting professor at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, and investigator at the University of León, co-founder and coordinator of the BITrum Research Group (meted around the interdisciplinary project: “Elucidation of the information concept”), part of the boards of directors of the Science of Information Institute, member of the Unified Theory of Information Research Group (UTI) and several other international scientific societies in the field of information theories.
He was research fellow at the Vienna University of Technology and at the Technical University of Madrid. He also served as professor at the University Alfonso X el Sabio in Madrid between 1997 and 2009. He has been visiting lecturer at the University of Furtwangen, Sankt Pölten University of Applied Sciences. Co-director of the “First International Meeting of Experts in Information Theories” (León, Spain, 2008) and the “Colloquium BITae” (León, Spain, 2009) currently coordinates the BITrum Glossary (of concepts, metaphors, theories and problems concerning information).
Membership at the boards of scientific organisations in the field
Unified Theory of Information Research Group (UTI)
BITrum Group for the elucidation of the information concept
International Society for Information Studies
Institutional Affiliation
Invited Professor, Universidad de León
Relevant Publications
DÍAZ, J.M. & F. SALTO (eds.) (2008). ¿Qué es información?. León: Universidad de León.
DÍAZ, J.M. & F. SALTO (eds.) (2009). Special issue: What is really information? An interdisciplinary approach . Triple C, 7(2), 300-308.
DÍAZ, J.M. (2010). “What is information? A multidimensional concern“. TripleC, 8(1).
DÍAZ, J.M., PÉREZ-MONTORO, M. & F. SALTO (eds.) (2010). Glossarium BITri: Glossary of concepts, metaphors, theories and problems concerning information. León: Universidad de León.
DÍAZ, J.M. & PÉREZ-MONTORO, M. (2011). Is Information a suficient basis for cognition? (Part 1: Critique on Dretske’s vision; Part 2: physical fundations). Triple C, 9(2), both in press (expected for Sept.2011).
Organisation of Scientific Gatherings in the field
I International Meeting of Experts in Information Theories. An Intedisciplinary Approach (León, Spain, 2008)
Colloquium BITae – Around 20 fundamental questions on Information concept (León, Spain, 2009)
Co-organiser of the 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science (FIS 2010, Beijin, China, August 2010)
Research focus
Philosophy of science and engineering, Science of Information, Information ethics, Information Society, Observation & Measurement Problem, Inverse problem, Communication theory
Contact: jdian@unileon.es
