Juan de la Casa Higueras (JAÉN-Spain, 1968) is an Electronics Engineer and an Technical Industrial Engineer (specialised in Electricity) from the University of Granada. In 2008, he obtained a PhD in Engineering from the University of Jaén. As a university professor, he belongs to the knowledge area of Electronic Technology, first at the University of Granada and then at the University of Jaén, since December 1992. He has been a public worker since February 1997, when he obtained a position at the University of Jaén. He continued Master's studies at the University of Granada and his doctorate at the University of Jaén, where he obtained his Ph.D. in May 2008. He currently holds the position of Full Professor at the Electronics and Automation Engineering Department, since September 2022. He has also taught postgraduate, master's, and doctoral courses in different Latin American universities (Argentina, Uruguay, and Peru). He is co-author of more than 60 articles in journals, books, or book chapters, most of them related to his research activity in the field of photovoltaic solar energy, and 54 of them have SCOPUS visibility and 36 are collected in the ISI Science JCR (2022 edition), of which 19 were published in journals of the first quartile. He is also co-author of three patents directly related to photovoltaic technology. He has sent more than 70 communications to international conferences in the sector, of which 8 of them have been accepted to plenary conferences.
University of Jaén
Jaén, Andalusia, Spain
Solar Energy Research and Development Group (IDEA)