Daniel Palacios-Alonso was born in Madrid, Spain. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), in 2009 and the Ph.D. degree in Advanced Computation from the same University, in 2017. He worked as a Team Leader in a technological consulting firm for 5 years. Since 2013, he is a member of the Neuromorphic Speech Processing Laboratory at the Center for Biomedical Technology. Nowadays, he works as an associate professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC). Moreover, he is currently the Coordinator of the Bioinspired Systems and Applications Research Group (SA-BIO). His research interests include teaching innovation, stress and emotional states, neurodegenerative diseases, artificial vision, pattern recognition, and biomedical signal processing. He is a reviewer of national and international journals. Dr. Palacios-Alonso was a recipient of several awards such as the Doctoral Consortium Award of Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence (2013), two Best Paper Awards (2016 and 2019) and Innovative Teachers Award (2020).