Gorka Garate is an Industrial Engineer in Mechanics (Universidad de Navarra, 1990) with a PhD in Applied Mechanics (UPV/EHU, 2004). From 1990 to 1991, he worked at Andersen Consulting in the development of software. Since 1991, he has been a lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Engineering, Gipuzkoa. His research interests are Mathematical Modelling, Artificial Intelligence in Robotic Systems, Image Processing and Numerical Methods.