Miguel A. Alonso has a degree in Computer Science (1993) and a PhD in Computer Science (2000) from the University of A Coruña (UDC, Spain). He started his research career at the Ramón Piñeiro Center for Research on Humanities (Spain). After spending a year as a predoctoral researcher at INRIA Paris (France), he returned to UDC as a predoctoral researcher in 1997. He is a tenured Associate Professor at UDC since 2003. His research interests lie in the field of natural language processing (NLP), including multilingual and crosslingual NLP with an emphasis on low-resource languages, sentiment analysis and opinion mining on social media, and information retrieval techniques applying NLP