Miguel Cuevas Alonso holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Oviedo (2001), a professional expert in statistics applied to Health Sciences (UNED, 2004), and a Ph.D. from the University of Vigo (2011). He is currently member of the research group Language Variation and Textual Categorization, coordinated by Dr. Javier Pérez Guerra.
His research areas have included phonetics and phonology, the acquisition of the phonological component, reading processes (particularly related to phonological awareness and metacomprehension), and geolectal and sociolectal variation. He currently co-directs the Language and Cognition Laboratory at the University of Vigo, and his current research lines are the neurophysiological correlates of language processing, sociolinguistics, particularly regarding explicit and implicit attitudes and the application of NLP and AI in corpus analysis, particularly those characterized by language hybridization in contact situations, and the application of AI in language teaching.
He has been awarded four six-year research and knowledge transfer evaluations “sexenios”. He is the author and co-author of over 50 articles and book chapters. He has worked on the Atlas Multimedia de l’Espace Roman, the Atlas Interactivo de la Entonación del Español, and the Interactive Atlas of Romance Intonation. These are the fundamental reference for any prosodic analysis of Romance languages.
He has presented over 40 papers at international conferences and has been a guest lecturer at various national and foreign universities, including the University of Massachusetts, the University of Zurich, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and the University of Iasi, among others. He has served on various scientific and organizing committees for international conferences, some in collaboration with prestigious scientific networks such as StarScholars Network and the European Association of Spanish Teachers. Currently, he is an honorary member of the Research Center for Discourse Analysis at Stefan cel Mare University (Romania) and a collaborating member of the Seminariu de Filoloxía Asturiana (University of Oviedo).
In the field of knowledge transfer, he has led 18 projects in collaboration with companies and has contributed to the development of three registered software programs. He was a research fellow at the R&D department of the Information and Communication Technology Center (Gijón). He serves as secretary of the UNESCO Chair on Transformative Education: Science, Communication, and Society.