José Miguel Mora received BSc. 6-year degree in Telecommunications Engineering (specialization microelectronic) at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, in 1990 and a Ph.D. degree in Engineer from the University of Seville, Spain, in 2017. Since April 1992, he has been a member of the Technical Staff at the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla (IMSE-CNM, CSIC/University of Seville), where he is currently an Assistant Manager in the Research and Development section. His main areas of interest include the design and testing of digital and mixed integrated circuits and field-programmable gate arrays, and the design and testing of IC for cryptography. He has been on the design teams of several integrated circuit and system research projects.