Full professor in Applied Mathematics at the Mathematics Department of the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He has published more than 200 research papers with 14000 Google citations and has an H-index of 58. He is vicepresident of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, editor in chief of the journal “Physica D: “Nonlinear Phenomena” and serves in the editorial board of “npj Systems Biology and Applications”. He is the coordinator of the Mathematics panel at the Spanish National Research Agency and has been a member of the Marie Curie evaluation committee and of many international project evaluation boards in oncology and/or applied mathematics in France, UK, Poland, Austria, Romania, Cyprus, Latvia, Spain, etc.

His main field of research is the application of mathematical modeling to oncology and more specifically to brain tumors, metastasis, cellular immunotherapies, biomarkers, medical images, lymphomas, leukaemias, prostate cancer, etc. In this field he has led several projects funded by public institutions, private foundations such as the James S. Mc. Donnell Foundation and pharmaceutical companies such as NOVARTIS. More specifically he is interested in the development and validation of mechanistic mathematical models that shed light on oncological processes and may be used as platforms to personalize treatments and develop in-silico trials. Also he is interested in the development of mathematical model-based biomarkers of response to treatments.