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Rafael (Cartagena, 1978) received his degree in Industrial Automation and Electronics Engineering from the Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT) in 2002 and his European PhD with honors from the University of Murcia (UMU), Faculty of Computer Science, in 2006. He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics and Computer Technology of the UPCT. Between 2008 and 2010 he worked for 1 year at the Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées, Nantes and for 3 months at the University of Paris Sud XI. Rafael is Vice Rector of Internationalization and European University at UPCT, Director of the AED Embedded Engineering Chair and deputy secretary general of the European University of Technology. In his professional career, he has participated in more than 50 research projects and research contracts and has published more than 80 scientific papers, for which he has received 2 international awards. His main area of research is space engineering. Among the different projects and contracts, it is worth mentioning that Rafael is responsible for the Spanish contribution to the payload of the Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency. He is the Principal Investigator of the infrared instrument control unit of the Euclid mission, an m-class cosmological mission of the European Space Agency.