He received the B.E., M.Sc. and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Murcia, Spain, in 2012, 2014, and 2018, respectively. He is a full-time Assistant Professor at the University of Oviedo with the department of Telematics, University of Oviedo. He did a pre-doctoral internship with PHILIPS Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, between 2013 and 2014 and another in NEC Europe, Heidelberg, Germany in 2015. Since 2014 he has been collaborating actively in standardization. In particular, he has participated in the IETF in diverse working groups (WGs) and is currently active in LP-WAN WG and LAKE WG. He was a research fellow in the Department of Information and Communications Engineering at the University of Murcia, before joining ODIN Solutions, S.L., as part of his Industrial Doctorate grant. He has participated in different European research projects, such as SMARTIE, ANASTACIA and PlugNHarvest. His research interests are mainly related to authentication, authorization, security and privacy mechanisms for the Internet of Things.