Academic Staff

Mehmet Şenbağcı graduated from Ankara University with a degree in Spanish language and literature and has been working at the University since September 2006.

Aimara Rodríguez De Cesero studied Modern Languages at the University of Florence. She has a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in Literary Translation. She has also successfully completed a Master degree in Foreign Language Teaching. Aimara has taught Spanish and Italian as a foreign language in Spain, Italy, Turkey and India to learners at different levels. Since February 2017 she has been working at the Spanish Department of Izmir University of Economics. Furthermore, she is also a qualified DELE examiner for the levels A1, A2, B1 and B2.

Antonio Ramirez graduated from Universidad Rafael Urdaneta in Maracaibo, Venezuela and got a degree in Computer Engineering. He got a masters degree in Computer Information Systems from Southern New Hampshire University in the United States. It was here when he started pursuing teaching as a career opportunity by teaching Spanish to coworkers. His responsibilities as an analyst/trainer in a software company helped him develop his teaching skills. In 2000 he moved to Istanbul, Turkey where he began teaching Spanish and English to university students and since then he has held several teaching positions. He enrolled in a Teacher Formation Program and received a certificate from Instituto Cervantes in Istanbul. He worked as a Spanish instructor in foreign language schools such as Dilmer and Bati Dilleri in Istanbul. He worked as an English instructor providing English consultancy services to companies such as Carrefour, FOX TV, AstraZeneca, MultiTurk Development, and Turkiye Gazetesi. In 2010 he started working at Izmir University of Economics as a Spanish Instructor.

Juan Morcote was born in Bogotá, Colombia. He graduated from Universidad Externado de Colombia in 2012 in the area of economic sciences in Business Administration. His first experience as a languages instructor started in 2012 and in 2014 he got his certificate in Spanish Teaching, ELE (Español como lengua extranjera), from Salamanca Spain. He came to Turkey 2014 and after working with other institutions, at the autumn of 2014 he started working at Izmir University of Economics as a Spanish instructor.

Elma Corujo González graduated from University of Cantabria in 2001 in Santander, (Spain) and got a degree in Management and Business Administration. She got a diploma in International Business from University of Ulster (Ireland). She has two Master´s Degrees, Master in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language and Master in Marketing Management, from University of Cantabria and University CIESE-Comillas, respectively. Later, She also obtained two Post-Graduates, one in Management and Negotiation of Tourist Destinations and other in Entrepreneurship both from University of Cantabria. She is accredited examiner of DELE Examinations from Instituto Cervantes (A1-B2). After working several years in Italy, in the field of Business Consultancy, she started to teach Spanish for Specific Purposes (Spanish for Business).Her interest in Specialized Languages has developed her reason to do research. She is currently doing her PhD in Linguistic, Literature, and Theater at University of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid). She started working at Izmir University of Economics as Spanish Instructor in 2016.