Education
He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Computational Sciences at the University of Leeds. He did his Doctor of Philosophy studies at Manchester and Leeds where he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1990.
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He is currently also the youngest Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Royal Automobile Club), which he joined in 2008. He is Full Professor of the Statistics and Operations Research Department at Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC), and he has been Vice-dean of New Technologies and International Relationships at URJC (2002–2009). He has worked in fields such as Bayesian inference in neuronal networks, MCMC methods in decision analysis, Bayesian robustness or adversarial risk analysis.
He has also worked in applied areas such as Electronic Democracy, reservoirs management, counterterrorism model and many others
He obtained his master"s degree in Mathematics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Universal Content Management , 1987), with Extraordinary and National He has been a lecturer and researcher at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (University of Petroleum and Minerals), Duke University, Purdue University, Université Paris-Dauphine, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche (National Research Council-IMATI), Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), where he was director of the Risk Analysis, Extreme Events and Decision Theory program He was director of the Towards Electronic Democracy (TED) program de la European Science Foundation (European Social Fund).
He is current codirector of the Algorithmic Decision Theory (ALGODEC) program cofunded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (Cooperation in Science and Technology) and the European Science Foundation (European Social Fund). He has supervised 15 Doctor of Philosophy theses.
He has supervised over 40 cofunded projects.
Achievements
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Extraordinary and National master"s degree Award. University of Petroleum and Minerals Award for young researchers. Ramiro Melendreras Award of Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa (SEIO) for young researchers. Peccei Award from International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) for young researchers. Wirsbo-URJC Research Award. Everis Award from Capital Semilla. SRA Award for best Decision Analysis paper.
Awards
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Extraordinary and National master's degree Award. UPM Award for young researchers. Ramiro Melendreras Award of Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa (SEIO) for young researchers. Peccei Award from International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) for young researchers. Wirsbo-URJC Research Award. Everis Award from Capital Semilla. SRA Award for best Decision Analysis paper.Extraordinary and National master's degree Award. UPM Award for young researchers. Ramiro Melendreras Award of Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa (SEIO) for young researchers. Peccei Award from International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) for young researchers. Wirsbo-URJC Research Award. Everis Award from Capital Semilla. SRA Award for best Decision Analysis paper.