Other achievements

·         AWARDS

- Best Paper Award within the Special Session about “Control Techniques for Renewable Energy Micro-grids” in the 39^th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON13), Vienna (Austria), 2013.

- Special Mention of the teaching innovation projects for the design of instructional materials in IT Support jury by “Learning objects for the iterative teaching of engineering”, Almería (Spain), 2012.

- Best Paper Award in Control Engineering at the XXXII Spanish Automatic Control Conference, Seville (Spain), 2011.

·         RESEARCH STAYS

01/03/2011 – 31/08/2011                             Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis (Brazil)

                                                           Department of Automation and Systems Engineering.

                                                           Supervisor: Prof. Julio Elias Normey-Rico.

01/09/2012 – 30/11/2012                             Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH, Zürich (Switzerland)

                         Automatic Control Laboratory

                         Supervisor: Prof. Manfred Morari / Prof. Roy Smith

·         ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

- Collaboration with the organisation committee of the XXVII Spanish Automatic Control Conference (September, 2006)

- European researchers’ night, http://lanochedelosinvestigadores.fundaciondescubre.es/almeria/ (September, 2014)

·         MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES OR THEMATIC NETWORKS

- Automatic Control, Robotics and Mechatronics research group of the University of Almería since December 2009.

- Spanish Automatic Control Committee since September 2009.

- Thematic network of Control Engineering (ID: DPI2011-15857-E) since January 2012.

- E-Automática: Network of education in automation with new technologies (ID: DPI2010-11055-E) since January 2011.

·         MAJOR COLLABORATIONS

- Automatic Control, Robotics and Mechatronics. University of Almería (Almería, Spain).

- Predictive Control. University of Seville (Seville, Spain).

- Department of Automatic Control and System, University Federal of Santa Catarina, (Florianópolis, Brazil).

- Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – ETH (Zürich, Switzerland).

- Department of System Engineering and Automatic, University of Valladolid (Valladolid, Spain).

·         OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

- Institutional responsibilities: Academic supervisor within the curricular practices program of the University of Almería.

- Referee of three Journals: a) Applied Energy, b) Building and Environment, c) IEEE Sensors Journal.