He was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1966. He became an Industrial Engineer at UPM in 1990 and received his Ph.D. degree at UPM in 1994 in the area of Control Engineering. He works at the Systems and Automatic Control Engineering Division (DISAM). His main activities are Intelligent Control, Fuzzy Control, Robotics and Computer Sciences. He can be reached at matia@disam.upm.es.