Before, he has hold other research positions: from 2016 to 2018 he hold a Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación postdoctoral contract also at the SOM Research Lab; from 2015 to 2016 he worked at the DisCo research team (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain) and the DICE H2020 EU project; and from 2013 to 2015 he was part of Inria as postdoctoral researcher in the AtlanMod team (École des Mines de Nantes, France), participating in the ITM Factory project and MODO EU project. Previously, Abel got his PhD in June 2012 in the ISSI research team, in Valencia, Spain, where he started his career as a researcher in 2004. His advisor was Isidro Ramos, and in his PhD thesis, he addressed variability aspects using software product lines in model-driven software development processes.