Álvaro Pons

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Álvaro Pons holds a PhD in Physics. He is a lecturer at the University of Valencia and has carried out an extensive task of disseminating comics from media such as El País, Cartelera Turia and Levante, as well as from his weblog, La Cárcel de Papel. He has been awarded for his work in comic dissemination (Saló del Còmic de Barcelona, ​​UNicómic, SPLASH). He has also curated several exhibitions on comics at the Angoulême Festival, October Center for Contemporary Culture, IVAM, Barcelona Comic Fair, Valencian Library, La Nau Cultural Center and Museum of Prehistory. He is director of the ‘Aula de Còmic’ from the Office of the Vice President for Culture at the University of Valencia. He is director of the Chair of Comic Studies at the SM-University of Valencia Foundation.