Josep Lluis de la Rosa quits the University of Girona in october 2022 at which he was full Professor from 2010, and Rensselaer Institute of Technology (RPI), New York, USA, from 2008-2010. He was Director of the Technology Research Center Easy and of the Official Master in Smart Cities of the UdG. He has an M.B.A. from the UdG and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). De la Rosa is an expert in intelligent agents, social networks, virtual currencies, and digital preservation and their application to the market, with +200 international publications and +20 Ph.D. theses supervised as a part of his contributions.