Full Stack Engineer at LifeWatch ERIC.
He holds a degree in Telecommunication Technologies Engineering and a master’s degree in Telematics and Telecommunication Networks. He specialises in full stack software development, working on both frontend and backend technologies. Since 2020, he has been working in the private sector, focusing on building and optimising software solutions. Currently, he is developing the LifeWatch Search Engine, available at search.lifewatch.eu.
Senior Scientific Manager
She is a Senior Scientific Manager at ICT-Core, where she coordinates and manages LifeWatch ERIC activities across various Horizon Europe projects. With a transdisciplinary background, her work focuses on sustainable food production, agroecology, sustainable soil management, and climate change adaptation and mitigation. She is particularly involved in the SUSSOIL, StePPFoS, GreenCop, Agroecology, and Path2Dea projects within LifeWatch ERIC.
Iria holds a PhD in Bioeconomy from the University of Leuven (Belgium), a Master’s in Biology from the University of Uppsala (Sweden), a Master’s in International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid from the Complutense University of Madrid, and an MSc in Forest Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain).
From 2015 to 2021, Iria worked at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Seville, within the Sustainable Resources Unit. There, she evaluated the environmental and socio-economic impacts of various climate change adaptation and mitigation programs and practices. She also assessed the sustainability of biofuel production in Mali and Mexico while at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Leuven. Additionally, Iria has managed international projects in countries such as Mexico, Lebanon, Morocco, Mali, and India, while working at the International Affairs Directorate of the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia. In this role, she collaborated with organizations like the FAO and the World Bank. She is the author of over 20 publications and has participated in many seminars, conferences and workshop.
Main publications
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160791X24003117
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1462901118305471?via%3Dihub
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301421514007034?via%3Dihub
Project Executive Assistant
Master’s in Project Management, Master’s in Innovation, and a Bachelor’s in Labor Relations and Human Resources. Specialist in project management, innovation, and industrialization. He has led strategic R&D&I and industrialization plans in the aerospace and automotive sectors. His expertise includes securing funding, engaging with stakeholders, transferring research results, and managing intellectual and industrial property.
He has worked in the public sector, coordinating European programs such as Next Generation, URBAN, INTERREG, ESF, and ERDF, focusing on local development and employment. His achievements include leading industrialization projects in aerospace and automotive, formulating technological roadmaps, and participating in international cooperation projects in Guatemala and Guinea-Bissau.
Currently, he leads the preparation of ERDF project proposals for biodiversity impact monitoring in environmental restoration projects and the development of digital twins for protected areas. His profile blends strategic leadership, financial management, and an innovative approach to emerging technologies, with a strong results-oriented mindset.
Full Stack Developer
He counts with experience since 2021 in software consulting firms and companies in the automotive sector, contributing to innovative and scalable solutions and specializing in modern web technologies. Skilled in front-end and back-end development, he has been involved in the development of MyLifeWatch, ResInfra Plus, and the migration of workflows from Tesseract to MyLifeWatch.
e-Infrastructure Resource Integration Coordinator
Holds a degree in Computer Engineering with extensive experience in sensor networks, IoT architectures, and research infrastructure integration. Since 2018, he has led resource integration in LifeWatch ERIC’s e-Infrastructure, though his involvement dates back to 2012, with key roles at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI, Amsterdam) and the Doñana Biological Station (CSIC), where he played a pivotal role in the process that led to LifeWatch becoming an ERIC.
He previously worked at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and at the Sierra Nevada Global Change Observatory (University of Granada), focusing on IoT and sensor networks for scientific infrastructures. Earlier, he gained international experience in Austria, working on distributed component communication in a flight simulator research project at Technische Universität Graz & Joanneum Research.
With expertise in scientific computing, smart systems, and data-driven infrastructures, he bridges IT solutions with environmental and scientific research.
e-Infrastructure Operations Coordinator
ICT professional with over 30 years of experience in both the private and public sectors. He has managed large-scale distributed infrastructures with ITIL-based operations and served as CTO, advocating for open-source technologies and standards-based software development, fostering collaboration and technical excellence.
His work spans HPC, big data, and DevOps, leading the deployment of Virtual Research Environments and coordinating cloud security and operations for large-scale solutions. Additionally, as an associate lecturer, he has contributed to bridging academic knowledge and real-world innovation by sharing enterprise-scale project management insights.
Agricultural Engineering specialised in ecology and biodiversity conservation. His research first focused on Mediterranean endemic and threatened flora, exploring plant reproductive processes and their interactions within ecosystems, later expanding to ecological modelling and spatial data analysis.
He has worked in several research centres and protected areas in Spain and Italy, gaining hands-on experience in conservation projects and biodiversity monitoring. From 2015 to 2021, he was a data analyst, GIS developer and consultant at the Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC), contributing to projects on greenhouse gas emissions, land productivity, and environmental indicators. In 2021, he became a Project Officer at the EC-JRC, focusing on analysing extensive data sets to develop indicators related to biodiversity and agriculture. During this time, he also gained experience at the intersection of science and policy.
In 2024, he joined LifeWatch ERIC as a Data Management Specialist, where he is involved in the entire data life cycle for agroecology and soil science projects, including Agroecology, SUS-SOIL, PATH2DEA and AgroServ.
Xavier has co-authored several scientific publications, on ecology, biodiversity conservation, plant biology and ecological modelling, with a strong focus on integrating data-driven approaches. Additionally, he has developed and maintains several R packages for ecological analysis and biodiversity research.
Main publications:
Holds a degree in Statistical Sciences and Techniques and a PhD in Social and Legal Sciences. She has over 15 years of experience in a multinational technology company, where she has coordinated and managed R&D&I projects at regional, national, and European levels, both individually and in consortia. Her expertise lies in data science, expert systems, digital twins, and innovation management. She has led industrialisation projects and contributed to the execution of R&D&I initiatives related to data science. Her current work focuses on managing innovation projects, ensuring their successful development and implementation. She is passionate about leveraging data science and innovation to drive technological progress and efficiency in various sectors.
Principal Software Engineer
Holds a PhD in Robotics Engineering at the University of Seville, where his research focused on the development of perception techniques for aerial robots in complex industrial environments. He has worked in several international projects, including Horizon Europe, ERC Grants, and projects for private companies or inter-continental cooperation. His research has been published in several international peer-reviewed journals and top-notch engineering conferences. In his current role as Principal Software Engineer at LifeWatch ERIC, he guides the development of software, and collaborates in architecture and infrastructure decisions, ensuring that the software systems and workflows are fully integrated, optimised, and aligned with the organisation’s long-term roadmap.
Main publications
J. L. Paneque, J.R. Martínez-de Dios, A. Ollero, D. Hanover, S. Sun, A. Romero and D. Scaramuzza, “Perception-Aware Perching on Powerlines With Multirotors,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 3077-3084, April 2022, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3145514.
F. J. Perez-Grau, J. R. Martinez-de Dios, J. L. Paneque., J. Acevedo, A. Torres-González, A. Viguria, and A. Ollero, “Introducing autonomous aerial robots in industrial manufacturing,” in Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 60, 312-324. doi: 10.1016/j.jmsy.2021.06.008
J. L. Paneque, J. R. Martínez-de Dios and A. Ollero, “Multi-Sensor 6-DoF Localization For Aerial Robots In Complex GNSS-Denied Environments,” 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Macau, China, 2019, pp. 1978-1984, doi: 10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8967686.
The Greek National Distributed Centre is funded by the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology and is coordinated by the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, in conjunction with 47 associated partner institutions.
To know more about how Greece contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Italian National Distributed Centre is led and managed by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and is coordinated by a Joint Research Unit, currently comprising 35 members. Moreover, Italy hosts one of the LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities, the Service Centre.
To know more about how Italy contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Dutch National Distributed Centre is hosted by the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam. Moreover, The Netherlands hosts one of the LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities, the Virtual Laboratory and Innovation Centre.
To know more about how The Netherlands contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Portuguese National Distributed Centre is managed by PORBIOTA, the Portuguese e-Infrastructure for Information and Research on Biodiversity. Led by BIOPOLIS/CIBIO-InBIO – Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, PORBIOTA connects the principal Portuguese research institutions working in biodiversity.
To know more about how Portugal contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Slovenian National Distributed Centre is led by the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU). It focuses on the development of technological solutions in the field of biodiversity and socio-ecosystem research.
To know more about how Slovenia contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Spanish National Distributed Centre is supported by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Regional Government of Andalusia and the Guadalquivir River Basin Authority (Ministry for Ecological Transition-MITECO). Moreover, Spain is the hosting Member State of LifeWatch ERIC, the location of its Statutory Seat & ICT e-Infrastructure Technical Office (LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities).
To know more about how Spain contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Bulgarian National Distributed Centre is represented by the Agricultural University-Plovdiv.
To know more about how Bulgaria contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Belgian National Distributed Centre makes varied and complementary in-kind contributions to LifeWatch ERIC. These are implemented in the form of long-lasting projects by various research centres and universities distributed throughout the country and supported by each respective political authority.
To know more about how Belgium contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.