Chelo Vargas Sierra

Chelo Vargas Sierra is a Professor at the University of Alicante, affiliated with the Department of English Philology within the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters I (Philology). As a founding member and director since 2021 of the Interuniversity Institute of Applied Modern Languages (IULMA), she leads innovative research in terminology and translation technologies. Her academic background includes a PhD in Translation and Interpreting, a Master's in Audiovisual Translation (University of Cádiz), and a Master's in Terminology (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

• PhD in Translation and Interpreting (University of Alicante)
• Máster en Traducción Audiovisual (University of Cádiz)
• Máster en Terminología (Institut Universitàri de Llingüística Aplicada)

Her research focuses on terminology applied to translation, specialized languages (English-Spanish), corpus linguistics, and gender-sensitive terminology. She directs the DIGITENDER project (TED2021-130040B-C21) for digitizing multilingual terminological resources. She has participated in over 90 international conferences and chaired events like enTRetextos 2021 and AESLA 2016.

Recent publications highlight trends in metaphor analysis in medical discourse, gender-sensitive terminology, and cross-linguistic sentiment studies in financial journalism. She chairs the Technical Standardisation Committee 191 for Terminology and has delivered 50+ international seminars for institutions like the European Union.

• Doctorate Extraordinary Award

She serves on editorial boards of journals like Ibérica and Sendebar, contributes to translation technology training, and collaborates in international academic programs. Her work combines theoretical research with practical applications in translation technologies and terminological standardization.