Francisco Javier de Cos Juez obtained his B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Leon, Spain, in 1995. He graduated from the University of Oviedo, Spain, with M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of La Rioja, as a Lecturer in 2000. Since 2001, he has been with the Department of Mining Exploitation and Prospecting, University of Oviedo, where he was an Assistant Professor. He became an Associate Professor in 2011 and a full Professor in 2015. He was elected Head of the Asturian Institute for Space Science and Technology in 2019. His research areas include Mathematical Modelling and Photometry.