(last update of this page: May 2024)

Editorial Appointments

1. From 2021/July: Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security journal

Impact Factor: 7.178. Top (first) journal publication in Computer Security & Cryptography

2. 2020-2022: Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition Letters journal

Impact Factor: 3.756. Top-10 of publications in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

3. 2018-2021, Editorial Board Member of IET Biometrics journal

4. From 2018/April, Associate Editor of IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter

5. 2019: Guest Editorial Board Member of Special Issue on Deep Learning of IEEE Latin America Transactions journal

Scientific Boards and Expert Assignments

1. February 2023: invited as expert to co-author a report on “Biometrics Presentation Attacks” by the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol)

2. January 2023-December 2025: elected member of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS-TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, https://signalprocessingsociety.org/community-involvement/information-forensics-and-security 

3. Review of funding applications for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Open Call in Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences 2021 (https://www.snf.ch/en) 

4. 2021-2023: member of the CC-DRIVER Stakeholder Board (EU project on cybercriminality), on behalf of the European Association of Biometrics (EAB)

5. May 2021: contributed to the position paper “Facilitating Free Travel in the Schengen Area” of the European Association of Biometrics (EAB) 

6. April-June 2021: expert panel member in the Research Study on “Technology Foresight on Biometrics for the Future of Travel”, organized by Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency. Consisting in 3 online consultations (2 workshops, 1 Delphi survey, 1 final workshop)

7. National Contact Point of Sweden (Ambassador) of the European Association of Biometrics (EAB) 

8. Review of funding applications for the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) call in 2015

9. Registered as expert in the Evaluation Agency of Andalucía (AGAE/DEVA: http://deva.aac.es), Spain, having reviewed proposals submitted to the calls of research projects grants in 2008 and 2009

PhD Thesis' Awards: Jury Member

1. From 2020: Award Committee Member of the Biometrics Awards of the European Association for Biometrics (EAB), granted annually to the best PhD theses in Europe in the field of biometrics research

Ph.D. Thesis: Examination Committee

1. 2024, May 20: PhD Examination Committee Member (reserve) of Miquel Miró Nicolau, Thesis: “XAI 4 MIA - eXplainable Artificial Intelligence for Medical Image Analysis”. PhD in Information and Communications Technology, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

2. 2023, January 19: PhD Examination Committee Member (president of the board) of Lidia Talavera Martínez, Thesis: “Soft Computing and Artificial Intelligence for Interpretable Analysis of Dermoscopic Images”. PhD in Information and Communications Technology, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

3. 2021, April 14: PhD Examination Committee Member (reserve) of Laura López Fuentes, Thesis “Semantic Computer Vision Tools for Mission-Critical Visual Communications over Bandwidth Limited Networks”. PhD in Information and Communications Technology, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

4. 2019, October 11th, PhD Examination Committee Member (vocal) of Silvia Ramis Guarinos, Thesis “Detection and Expression Recognition applied to Social Robots”. PhD in Information and Communications Technology, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

5. 2016, September 26th, PhD Examination Committee Member (vocal) of Daniel Peralta Cámara, Thesis “Data Mining in High Performance Computing for Fingerprint-Based Biometric Identification”, PhD in Communication and Information Technologies, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, Spain

Ph.D. Thesis: External Evaluator/Reviewer

1. 2024, April, External Reviewer of the PhD Thesis of Ehsaneddin Jalilian, Thesis “Deep Learning for Semantic Segmentation and Seamless Visual Recognition”. PhD in Digital and Analytical Science, Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces (AIHI), University of Salzburg, Austria

2. 2020, November, External Evaluator of the PhD Thesis of Giulia ORRÙ, Thesis “Template update algorithms and their application to face recognition systems in the deep learning era”. PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy

Master Thesis: Examination Boards

1. September 2019, External Examiner of Master Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, University of Malta (1 thesis)

2. Jan 2018-present, External Examiner of Master Theses, MSc in Information Security, Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (4-6 theses per year)

3. Academic courses 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21: Co-Examiner of Master Theses in Computer Science and Engineering (Intelligent Systems Program, course codes DT7001, DT7002), School of Information Technology, Halmstad University, Sweden (10-15 theses per year): https://www.hh.se/student-web/content-a-z/thesis-information-for-students-at-school-of-information-technology.html