Vice-rector of Business, Territory and Digital Transformation of the University of Malaga. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and a Degree in Computer Science at the same University, and Professor of the Telematics Engineering area since 2009. Before joining to the university, he worked at the Acerinox Company as a Systems Analyst at the Industrial Informatics Department. His research has been developed in the Cybersecurity field. As director of the NICS Lab research group, he has directed more than fifty research projects and contracts in this area. He has published almost a hundred articles in international journals of impact (JCR), and has (co-) directed 16 doctoral theses. In his career, we can stand out several research stays, in the United States (Yale University, University Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Japan (University of Tsukuba) and Australia (Queensland University of Technology). He is currently president of the National Network of Excellence for Research in Cybersecurity (RENIC) and also chairs the AENOR / UNE Standardization Subcommittee on Data Protection, Privacy and Identity Management. He has been a director of the International Security Committee of HUAWEI (2015-2019), and he has also been the representative of Spain in the Technical Committee of Security and Privacy of IFIP (2003-2018).