Julian Molina’s main lines of research focus on process optimization, economic business, the design of optimization algorithms based on artificial intelligence (metaheuristics), its computational implementation, and its application to real problems, corresponding to areas ranging from management and forest planning, the location of facilities, the distribution of spaces, the analysis of tourism sustainability, the selection of project portfolios, public investment planning, school transportation, garbage collection, the planning of tourist routes, problems concerning the clustering and segmentation of markets, the design of commercial territories, the design of transport networks, logistics, selective garbage collection, etc. He has wide experience in modelling and solving very different complex systems related to very different real problems. He has published more than 80 research papers, of which 30 stand out, including publications in journals indexed in Journal Citation Report (JCR), 19 of them in Q1, accumulating more than 1300 citations, 29 book chapters, review works for more than 15 international journals in JCR, and he is a member of the scientific committee of numerous international congresses. He has participated in more than 140 communications to congresses, presents four intellectual property patents, and has received the Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson Research Prize at The University General Foundation of Malaga.