Carlos Valcarcel Riveiro

Carlos Valcarcel Riveiro is a full-time Professor of French Didactics at the Faculty of Education and Sport Sciences of the University of Vigo, specializing in Romance Philology with particular expertise in French linguistics. His academic appointments include teaching positions in the Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Lexicography (EMLex) and membership in multiple research networks including RELEX Lexicography Network, PORTLEX, MultiGenera, and MultiComb projects.

His educational background features a Doctorate from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2007) with his thesis Geolinguistics of the Atlantic Romance Periphery: Languages and Places, supervised by Dr. Elvira Fidalgo Francisco and Dr. Xosé Manuel Santos Solla.

Valcarcel Riveiro's research spans multiple interconnected domains including Sociolinguistics, Natural Language Processing, Lexicography, and Foreign Language Teaching. He is particularly known for advocating the implementation of computational tools in linguistic research and education, with significant contributions to collaborative lexicography through initiatives like HACKFEST: Edita pa' diante (2018) and Dicionariando (2019). His scholarly work demonstrates a consistent focus on the intersection of traditional philological methods with digital humanities approaches.

His publication record shows a clear trajectory from geolinguistic studies of Romance languages in the late 1990s toward increasingly computational and collaborative lexicographic approaches in the 2010s. While his early work focused on regional language variation in Galicia, his more recent publications emphasize multilingual lexicography and computational linguistics applications.

Valcarcel Riveiro actively participates in research teams including the LITEX Language and Text research group and contributes to PortLex, a multilingual lexicographic portal covering Spanish, German, French, Galician, and Italian. He also serves as a digital content creator and is the composer and vocalist for the electronic music group Projecto Mourente, demonstrating interdisciplinary engagement beyond traditional academic boundaries.