| Prof. Ramón Galán was born in Avila, Spain, in 1956. He became Computer Scientist at the Facultad de Informática of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and got the PhD degree by the UPM in 1982. Presently he is Full Professor in the area of Systems Engineering at the Department of Automatic Control, Electronic Engineering and Industrial Computing of the UPM. His main activities have been in the area of process control, artificial intelligence, expert systems and computer science. He has experience in several EU funded projects (ESPRIT 623, PLATO, HINT, DIXIT, CIMIS-NET, INCO-PROQUS and IST-10258 DOTS). |