Marc Miquel
Senior User Researcher at UPF Barcelona School of Management
Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolMarc Miquel is a Senior User Researcher with 11 years of experience blending qualitative and quantitative methods to shape product and business strategy, currently researching player experiences at King on Candy Crush Saga. He brings a rare hybrid background as a former Data Scientist fluent in Python and big-data techniques, enabling pragmatic collaboration between User Research and Data Science to surface what users do as well as what they say. His PhD in Human-Computer Interaction and academic track record (5+ journal and 10+ conference papers) underpin rigorous, hypothesis-driven research practices he also teaches at university level. Marc has led community-focused research initiatives at the Wikimedia Foundation, designing novel metrics like the Knowledge Gaps Index and coordinating movement-wide strategy work. He has entrepreneurial and game-design roots from co-founding Catalan Games and introducing UX practices in game companies, giving him hands-on product empathy. Based in Greater Barcelona, he combines scholarly rigor, technical fluency, and classroom experience to make research both actionable and strategically influential.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Research Doctorate, Human-Computer Interaction, Cum Laude, Research Doctorate, Human-Computer Interaction, Cum Laude at Universitat Pompeu FabraUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
English, Catalan, Spanish, Italian, Romanian
Github Skills (4)
inequalities9
wikipedia9
fuse4
macos3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
marcmiquel/WDO
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
WDO studies and gives solutions to knowledge inequalities in Wikipedia.
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 89 pushes in 3 years 5 months
knowledgeinequalitieswikipediacontent-diversityknowledge-inequalities
WikiCommunityHealth/community-vital-signs
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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