Lia Carolina is a visiting student from Sao Paulo, Brazil, who holds a BA in Communication with specialization in journalism and mass communication research at Cásper Libero University .

She has worked for more than ten years in Brazil as a journalist in television network channels in Sao Paulo and as a freelancer director, reporter and scriptwriter of corporate videos and presentations for multinational companies.

During the last four years, she worked in Educational Technology at Santillana, an educational publisher that is a leader in the Latin American textbook market. There she became project manager for UNO International, an iPad-based educational system, coordinating external and internal production teams and participating in planning, budgeting, and development of educational content and apps.

After falling in love with educational technology, she realized that training teachers to use technology in the classroom is a key factor for implementing innovation. Her research interests focus on understanding the needs of educators and identifying opportunities for them to innovative through technologies.

She also believes that high quality content and interesting educational design for interactive use can help learners for better understanding. Deeply interested in how digital will transform the educational field, Lia is currently looking for innovative technologies to accomplish the 21st Century skills as a visiting researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) - Open University.

Fernandez, M., Tirado, A., Pavon-Perez, A., Duddin, K., Zhang, M., Bakina, K., Bandara, A., Capdevila, R., Lazard, L. and Jurasz, O. (2025) Co-creating an Ontology of Online Gender-Based Harms: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, ISWC 2025 - The 24th International Semantic Web Conference, Nara, Japan

Ghafourian, Y., Hanbury, A. and Knoth, P. (2025) Ranking To Learn: Human Experts, Search Engines, or LLMs for Learning Guidance, TPDL 2025: The 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Tampere, Finland

Cancellieri, M., El-Ebshihy, A., Fink, T., Fröbe, M., Galuščáková, P., Goeuriot, L., Iommi, D., Keller, J., Knoth, P., Mulhem, P., Piroi, F., Pride, D. and Schaer, P. (2025) Extended Abstract of LongEval at CLEF 2025: Longitudinal Evaluation of IR Systems on Web and Scientific Data, 16th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2025), Madrid, Spain

Tsaneva, S., Dessì, D., Osborne, F. and Sabou, M. (2025) Knowledge graph validation by integrating LLMs and human-in-the-loop, Information Processing & Management, 62, Elsevier

Cancellieri, M., Docekal, M., Pride, D., Gruenpeter, M., Douard, D. and Knoth, P. (2025) Interoperable verification and dissemination of software assets in repositories using COAR Notify, The 20th International Conference on Open Repositories, Chicago, Illinois, USA