Roberto Gil Pita (RGP), is Full Professor in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at the University of Alcalá since 2020. He received the M.Eng. degree in telecommunication engineering and the Ph.D. degree (with hons.) in electrical engineering from the University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. From 2001, he has worked at the Signal Theory and Communications Department in the University of Alcalá, in the Applied Signal Processing research group. His research interests include pattern recognition and audio signal processing, focusing on sound source separation, hearing aids, and emotional speech. In these fields, he is author of 43 journal papers included in the Journal Citation Report, and around 100 conference papers. He has received more than 567 citations according to ResearcherID, 1458 citations according to Google Scholar, and his h-index is 13 according to ResearcherID, 22 according to Google Scholar. He has also supervised 6 Ph.D, thesis, three of them awarded by the University of Alcala, and one of them awarded by the Spanish COITT. In 2021 he received the award Premio a la Excelencia en la Dirección de Tesis Doctorales, granted by the University of Alcala in competition with all branches of science and engineering.