I was born in La Línea (Cádiz, Spain) in 1972. I completed my studies in Computer Engineering at the University of Málaga in 1997, and then began the PhD program in the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation (Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática, ISA) of the University of Málaga (UMA) while working in the private sector. I joined the ISA department in 2001. In 2004, I obtained my PhD degree in Computer Engineering from the UMA. From 2006 to 2017, I was hired as an assistant professor, and in December 2017, I got my position as an associate professor at the University of Málaga. Currently, I teach at ETSI Informática; my teaching is related to Robotics and Industrial Information Systems. The research line I developed in my thesis (multi-robot systems) has been extended to fields such as robotic software development, networked robotic systems, and educational robotics on proprietary (LEGO NXT) and open-source platforms (Arduino); within these areas, I moved towards the application of reinforcement learning (RL) techniques on educational low-cost microbots as well as on high-level robotic platforms.