Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla

Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He earned his PhD in English Literature and Linguistics from UCM in 2006 with a thesis titled "The Generation of Tense and Aspect in English and Spanish: A Functional-Contrastive Study," focusing on systemic-functional approaches to language generation. Since 2010, he has been a full-time lecturer at UCM, specializing in corpus linguistics, English-Spanish contrastive analysis, and studies on modality and evidentiality.

His research emphasizes applied linguistics, particularly in automatic language generation and corpus annotation. He has supervised one completed doctoral thesis and welcomes proposals in semantics, pragmatics, and contrastive English-Spanish analysis. He is a member of the FUNCAP research group, contributing to projects on modality and corpus-based methodologies.

No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned in the provided texts. His teaching and research activities include contributions to PhD programs and international collaboration through the FUNCAP group. No grants or specific funding details are disclosed.

His work bridges theoretical linguistics and practical applications, with a focus on cross-linguistic comparisons between English and Spanish. Current research trends involve advancing corpus-driven analyses of tense, aspect, and modality in bilingual contexts.