Graduated as an Industrial Engineer (equivalent to a MEng degree) in 1993 and obtained his PhD in 1998 from the University of Vigo, Spain, with a thesis entitled “Development of pulsed TV-holography techniques for the analysis of transient wave propagation in mechanical parts”. He joined the Applied Physics department at University of Vigo in 1993, then the Department of Engineering Design as an Associate Lecturer. He is now a Senior Lecturer in the same Department. Prof. Fernández teaches Engineering Graphics, Computer Programming using Python, and Image Processing. His research interests include computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition, with a special focus on texture analysis.