Prof. Blas M. Vinagre earned his M.S. degree in telecommunications engineering from the Technical University of Madrid, Spain, in 1985 and his Ph.D. degree from the National University of Distant Learning, Madrid, Spain, in 2001. He worked in industry from 1985 to 1994, mainly in communications, automation, and electronic warfare. In 1994, he joined the University of Extremadura, Spain, as an assistant professor. From 2001 to 2016, he was an associate professor in the Department of Electric, Electronic, and Automation Engineering at the University of Extremadura, where he is now a full professor of automatic control. His research interests focus on the application of fractional calculus in automatic control and robotics, including microrobotics for medical applications. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.