I am a Distinguished Researcher in the School of Computer Science at UNED, Spain, and formerly a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE) at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK, where I started as Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in 2017. At CSEE I provided technical leadership in multiple simultaneous interdisciplinary projects. Before joining the University of Essex, I held a postdoctoral fellow at the National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health (NLM/NIH), USA. From 2011 to 2015, I worked on my PhD degree as a research assistant at the University of Applied Science Western Switzerland Valais-Wallis (HES-SO Valais-Wallis) with a research stay at the School of Information Sciences and Technology in Fudan University, Shangai, China, and a research stay at Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Stockholm, Sweeden. Between 2009 and 2011, I was a research assistant at the CIEN Foundation, Rey Juan Carlos University and General Electric Healthcare, in Madrid, Spain, where I worked in several projects on Resonance Magnetic Imaging (MRI).


I received my doctorate degree in Computer Science from University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 2015. I received a Master's in Science in Telemedicine and Bioengineering from the Technical University of Madrid (Spain) in 2009 and a Mathematics degree (5 years program) at the Complutense University in Madrid (Spain) in 2008.


As a mathematician, I enjoy applying mathematics and computational techniques to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools that model the complex realities found in the vast datasets available today.. My research interests lie broadly in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for computer vision, with a special focus on biomedical imaging, neuroimaging, information access, and evaluation. I am also interested in the challenges of Multimodal AI, where various data types—such as images, text, speech, and numerical data—are combined with multiple intelligence-processing algorithms to achieve enhanced performance. In many real-world problems, Multimodal AI often outperforms single-modal AI by leveraging diverse sources of information.


I have published widely in the field and I have large experience organising international benchmarking activities. I have led and formed part of editorial, organising and technical committees for of a variety of Artificial Intelligence related international conferences and I am a member of the Editorial Board of Scientific Data, a data-focused journal from the publishers of Nature. I am consistently successful in obtaining external research funding.


I have achieved several notable recognitions like Early Career Researcher Award for the University of Essex (UK), National Library of Medicine Honour Awards (USA), best paper awards at ICCVIP (Czechia), SPIE Medical Imaging (USA) and CoNy conferences (Czechia).


As a teacher, I have made significant and sustained contributions to departmental teaching developing and delivering education units in both undergraduate and master levels and I have supervised undergraduate, master and PhD students on a variety of projects. In addition to my teaching and supervision duties, I served as Deputy Director of Education at CSEE in the University of Essex and I have made a significant contribution to the administration and general life and work of the department by participating in supervisory and interview panels, committees, and organising outreach activities.