Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Jaén. Member of the research group "Inteligent Systems of Information Access" (SINAI - Sistemas INteligentes de Acceso a la Información), of the national thematic network for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Processing (TIMM) and of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN). I was awarded a six-year research fellowship in 2015. He started his professional activity in the company ATOS ODS as a programmer. Since 2011, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Universidad de Jaén. He started his research in multimodal information retrieval systems, mainly focused on biomedical retrieval systems using external knowledge extracted from specialised ontologies. He is the author of more than a hundred papers in conference proceedings and workshops, as well as chapters in books and indexed journals. He has participated for several years in the CLEF (Cross-Language Evaluation Forum) competitions, coming first in 2008 in the subtask of multimodal medical information retrieval (ImageCLEFmed). He has belonged to the organising committee of the TASS (Semantic Analysis Workshop of the SEPLN) and has actively participated in the creation of several corpora within this workshop, the most recognised being the InterTASS corpus, a set of polarity-tagged tweets written in different subsets of Spanish (from Spain, Peru, ...).