Pilar Martínez Ortigosa is a Full Professor of Architecture and Computer Technology since July 2018 at the University of Almería, Associate Professor at the University of Almería between 2001 and 2018 and Assistant Professor at the University of Almería between 1998 and 2001, always full time. At the end of her B.Sc. degree (July-1994) in Physical Sciences speciality in Electronics from the University of Granada, she moved to the University of Almeria where she obtained a contract of assistant professor in the Department. of Computer Architecture and Electronics as a consequence of a replacement. Simultaneously she began her studies in Electronic Engineering at the University of Granada and her PhD studies at the University of Almeria. In 1995 she obtained an FPDI scholarship from the Junta de Andalucía, which was extended for another three years. In 1996 she finished her studies in Electronic Engineering and Doctorate studies. In 1999 se defend her doctoral. Her research has been focused from the beginning on High Performance Computing (HPC), Metaheuristic Global Optimization and the application to several real problems such as the alignment of images, problems of reconstruction of images and detection of deformable objects among others. One important research line is related to competitive localization by participating in both the design of mathematical models that simulate real problems and metaheuristic optimization.