Full professor of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Almería, Spain. He earned an industrial engineering degree (number 2 of XXI graduation) and Ph.D. (extraordinary doctorate award) from the University of Seville, Spain. His research interests are in hierarchical, predictive and robust control, with applications to solar energy systems, agriculture, and biotechnology and in control education and archaeology. 

He has been Vice-Rector of Information and Communication Technologies at University of Almería (Spain). He is also the head of the research group “Automatic Control, Robotics and Mechatronics” (http://arm.ual.es). He has been director of 15 PhD Thesis, has leaded 35 R&D projects and grants. He is co-author of 140 papers in journals (58 Q1, 43 Q2). H-index: 41 (google scholar), 31 (Scopus), 26 (Web of Science). He has been member of the board of Governors of the Comité Español de Automática (main Spanish Association in Automatic Control) from 2003 to 2008 and 2012-2016, member of IEEE Control System Society from 2000 (Senior from 2012) and member of the IFAC Technical Committees TC 8.01 Control in Agriculture, TC 6.3.