José Joaquín Ortega is an Assistant Professor at the School of Mines and Energy of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. B.Sc. in Civil Engineering (2010); M.Sc. in Territory, Infrastructures, and Environment (2012); and Ph.D. (2019) from the University of Castilla-La Mancha. National Prize ANCI for Doctoral Theses 2019, awarded by the National Association of Independent Constructors (Spain). Research stays at the University of Zhejiang (Hangzhou, China, 2 months), University of Minho (Guimarães, Portugal, 3 months), and University of Brescia (Brescia, Italy, 3 months). Author of 11 articles published in international journals, most indexed in the JCR as Q1, and in 17 contributions to national and international conferences. Research interests include fracture and fatigue failure of construction materials like concrete; modeling and numerical methods; and infrastructure.