His main interest consists of enhancing monitoring and diagnostics in space operations. His research includes the enhancement of remote observability, availability of space data, reduction of information overload, and data mining and machine learning applied to space opeara-tions. In recent years he was the main coauthor of four patents related to data compression, diagnostics, and monitoring. Martínez-Heras holds a master of computer science engineering degree from the Univerity of Málaga, Spain.