Fernando López Peña received the Master degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 1981, the Research Master from the von Karman Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Belgium, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Louvain, Louvain-le-Neuve, Belgium, in 1992. He is professor at University of A Coruña, Spain. From February 2005 until February 2012 he was the Head of the Maritime and Oceanic Department of this university. He was Assistant Professor at the Politecnic University of Madrid from January 1993 to September 1994 and at this last date he incorporated to its current university. His current research activities are related to intelligent hydrodynamics and aerodynamics design and optimization, flow measurement and diagnosis, and autonomous vehicles development.