Prof. Dr. Rafael Muñoz Salinas (Phd)
Muñoz-Salinas, R. received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Granada (Spain) in 2003 and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Granada in 2006. Since then, he has been working with the Department of Computing and Numerical Analysis of Cordoba University where he is currently a full professor. His research is focused mainly on computer vision, soft computing techniques applied to robotics, and human-robot interaction. He has co-authored more than one hundred papers in conferences, books, and top-ranked journals. One of his papers was the most cited of the prestigious journal Pattern Recognition and is considered a highly-cited paper. He has advised seven Ph.D. students. And participated in more than twenty projects, both industrial and scientific. He has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of DeMontfort (U.K), Orebro (Sweden), TUM (Munich), INRIA(France), Groningen (Netherlands). As a teacher, he has been teaching for more than fifteen years, advised more than 30 final degree projects, and taught international courses in the Universities of Groningen, Luxembourg, Malta, Coimbra (Portugal), and Brno. He is also a researcher at the Biomedical Research Institute of Cordoba (IMIBIC).