My name is Jose Maria Ferrero, though everybody calls me Chema. Since 2003, I am a Full Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) in Spain, where I teach Bioelectricity and Electronics. I am also a senior researcher in the Center for Research and Innvovation in Bioengineering (CI2B). My research is focused on cardiac bioelectricity and computational cardiology.

I was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1966 and finished my graduate studies in Industrial Engineering in 1990 with the maximum grade (sobresaliente). My PhD thesis was related to the computational modelling of the electrical behaviour of the heart and was carried out in the UPV and also in the Johns Hopkins University (USA), were I served as a research trainee in 1995. I defended my PhD in Valencia in 1995 and obtained the maximum grade.

I was then co-founder of the “Cardiac Modelling Group” in the UPV in 1996. Since then, I have been supervisor of 13 PhD thesis, published more tan 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals (JSR/SCI), 4 research chapters in international books and more than 200 papers in international conferences, I have participated in 20 research projects funded by regional, national and international institutions (and have been PI in 6 of them).

My scientific international activities began with the aforementioned stay in the JHU (USA) and has broadened with more stays in european universities. I have established scientific and teaching collaborations with different foreign universities in Europe, North America and Latin America. In 2006, I was Chairman of the XXXIII Computers in Cardiology International Conference. I am a scientific reviewer in several international journals and have formed part of the Scientific Committee in different conferences.

Together with my teaching activities in the UPV, I have also been invited teacher in the Universidad de Zaragoza and the Universidad de Oviedo, in Spain; in the Politécnico di Milano, Italy; in the Universidad de Caldas, in Colombia; in the Tecnológico de Morelia, in México; and in the Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora in Argentina, where I have taught courses and seminars in master and PhD degrees.

I have been awarded with different distinctions and Prizes both in the research and teaching ambits. In 2017, I was awarded with the “Excellence in University Education Prize” among other 400 professors in the UPV.