Currently, I am a Ramon-y-Cajal professor/researcher at Universitat Jaume I, Spain.

My research expertise lies in Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Reasoning (QSTR) applied to robotics and to ambient intelligent systems. Recently I lead a new research line on defining qualitative models for solving spatial reasoning challenges to help people to improve their spatial cognition skills. Through all my research experience, I developed a multidisciplinary background which, apart from Qualitative Reasoning, Knowledge Representation techniques and Human-Machine Interaction, also includes Machine Learning, Colour Cognition, Bioinformatics, Geographic Information Systems and Creative and Spatial Problem Solving.

I am a member of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) and secretary at the main board of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (ACIA). I am also a member of the Cognitive Science Society and the Spatial Learning Network at the Spatial Intelligence Learning Center (SILC) by the National Science Foundation (NCS) in USA.

From 2012 until 2019, I carried out research at Bremen Spatial Cognition Center, at the University of Bremen.

In 2012 I started as a postdoc researcher at the University of Bremen after receiving a 03 Brückenstelle in die Post-Doc-Phase by the Exzellent Initiative.

In 2013 I was awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development, European Commission under the FP7 call reference FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF to carry on a project on Cognitive Scene Descriptions (Cognitive-AmI) as the principal investigator (PI).

For 2015-2019, I directed a project on Cognitive Qualitative Descriptions and Applications (CogQDA) funded by the Exzellent Initiative at Universität Bremen.

I was also a member of the association Científicos Españoles en la República Federal de Alemania (CERFA) and the director of my area delegation for 2 years.

About my PhD and industrial transference

In 2004, I graduated in Computer Science Engineering at Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain. In 2006, I was awarded a scholarship by Generalitat Valenciana (Spain) to carry out my PhD thesis in Qualitative Representations applied to Robotics.

From 2010 to 2011, I was a research engineer in Cognitive Robots SL where I applied some methods of my thesis to the automation of scrubber machines.

In 2011, I got my joint Dr./Dr-Ing. title by Universitat Jaume I and Universität Bremen (Germany).