Ignacio Gallego is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). He is a member of the Audiovisual Diversity Research Group where he coordinates the line on Production, distribution and consumption of sound-musical content. He completed his doctoral thesis on Podcasting as a means of distribution of sound content in 2010. Gallego co-directs the Master in Music Industry and Sound Studies at UC3M, directs the contents of the Estación Podcast festival and is co-chair of the MARS (Music, Audio, Radio & Sound) Working Group of the IAMCR.
His work at the OII will focus on the impact and transformation of digital infrastructures on the distribution of and access to music, podcasts and other audio content.