I hold a PhD in Computer Science with European Mention from the Complutense University of Madrid (2008), where I have developed my teaching and research career since 2005, currently holding a position as Associate Professor (Profesor Titular). Additionally, I served as Director of the Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at Complutense University from 2015 to 2019.

Since 2021, I hold the BOSCH-UCM Honorary Chair on Artificial Intelligence.

My research career began in Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) Systems Engineering and Recommender Systems, evolving in recent years toward the field of Explainable and Auditable Artificial Intelligence. This career has been recognized with two research productivity awards (sexenios) (2007-2013, 2014-2019). I have supervised 4 doctoral theses in these knowledge areas and led four national projects as Principal Investigator: PERSO (TIN2014), CBRex (TIN2017), PERXAI (PID2020), and AUDITIA-X (PID2023). Previously, I also participated as a researcher in 5 competitive projects (4 national and 1 European). In recent years, I have also contributed to two European projects: iSEE (CHIST-ERA-19-XAI-008) and ALFIE (HORIZON-CL2-2024). The internationalization of my research is further enhanced through active collaboration and several research stays since 2021 with the AAAI-MX research group in Mexico.

Furthermore, I have conducted several research projects with industry partners, receiving official recognition through a knowledge transfer productivity award (sexenio de transferencia) (2012-2017). The main technological outcome of my research is the COLIBRI platform for building CBR systems, which has over 40,000 downloads, averaging 3,000 per year from both academia and industry. I hold intellectual property rights over several research outputs, including software frameworks and ontologies.

I have co-authored over 100 publications in international conferences and high-impact journals. I have organized several scientific events as Program Chair, notably the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR) in 2024 and the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health (ICAIMH) since 2024. Previously, I organized the workshop on eXplainable AI through CBR (XCBR) within ICCBR conferences since 2019, and the special session on CBR at the FLAIRS conference. Additionally, I serve as a reviewer for numerous international conferences and journals.I'm also a Board Member of the IAAA Student Chapter in Mexico for the promotion of Artificial Intelligence.