José Carlos R. Alcantud received his M.Sc. in Mathematics in 1991 from the University of Valencia, Spain, and Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1996 from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He is a professor in the Department of Economics and Economic History, with the University of Salamanca, Spain. He has authored over 100 papers on topics, including mathematical economics, social choice, fuzzy mathematics and soft computing. He serves on the editorial board of Symmetry and Global & Local Economic Review, and the advisory board of Sci. He has been a reviewer for more than 60 SCI journals, including Fuzzy Sets and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Information Fusion, Information Sciences, and Knowledge-Based Systems. As the project leader, he has directed seven research projects at the national or provincial level. He was also a member of an EU-funded research project.