Leonel Morgado is Assistant Professor with Habilitation, at the Portuguese Open University (Universidade Aberta), a public university focusing on e-learning, where he lectures on programming and the use of virtual worlds. His main research interest is the use and development of virtual worlds as tools for learning and business, which he pursues since 2000, focusing on multi-user platforms since 2006. He authored over 100 papers, in journals, conferences, and as book chapters. Before pursuing an academic career, he was business and technical manager of an harware import, distribution, and retail company, terminologist for the localization teams of MS Office 97 and Oracle InterOffice, language consultant for IBM/Lotus, a coordinator of Web-development and software-deployment teams, and manager of a cooperative extension team fighting the digital divide in rural villages.

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