Germán Bordel was born in Bilbao in 1961. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 1985 and 1996, respectively. In 1988, after two years working on microprocessor systems for control, he joined the Department of Electricity and Electronics, UPV/EHU, as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, where since 2008 he has been an Associate Professor. His interests include software architectures, web-based applications, spoken document retrieval and speaker recognition.