Modeling and Control

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2791-8105 · Scopus Author ID: 16303147700. José Domingo Álvarez is an Associate Professor at the University of Almería, Spain. He earned a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Almería in 2003 and a PhD in Computer Engineering from the same university in 2008. During his postdoctoral period, he spent three years working on the PSE-ARFRISOL strategic project on bioclimatic architecture and solar cooling. He then spent two years at the University of Seville on a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship (2011 call), followed by a Ramón y Cajal postdoctoral fellowship (2013 call) at the University of Almería. His main research interests are predictive, repetitive and classical PID control, with practical applications to solar-powered plants and energy efficiency in buildings. He co-authored the book Comfort Control in Buildings (Springer, 2014). He has co-authored 47 scientific papers in indexed journals and more than 50 conference papers. His h-index is 21 in Google Scholar, 17 in Scopus and 15 in Web of Science. He has co-supervised three doctoral theses and taken part in publicly and privately funded national and international R&D projects. He is a member of the Automatic Control, Robotics and Mechatronics research group at the University of Almería (TEP-197, Andalusian Research Plan) and of the Spanish Committee of Automatic Control (CEA). He has served on the organising committees of the 27th Jornadas de Automática (2006), the 2nd National Symposium on Horticultural Engineering (2016) and the 16th CEA Symposium on Control Engineering (2018). He reviews for more than 20 international journals, as well as for ANEP and ANECA. He coordinates the UAL Master’s Degree in Solar Energy. He is also a member of the editorial board of Mathematical Problems in Engineering and the subject committee of Energies, and a reviewer for panel RP2 of the COST Actions (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8724-5136 · Scopus Author ID: 23467603800. Lidia Roca has been a researcher at CIEMAT since 2012. She earned a degree in Electronic Engineering from the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Granada (2004), a Master’s Degree in Solar Energy from the University of Almería (2007), and a PhD from the University of Almería (2009), receiving the university’s extraordinary research award in engineering. She is currently based in the Solar Thermal Applications Unit at the Plataforma Solar de Almería. She has authored 42 papers in indexed scientific journals, contributed to 42 international conferences and published two books. Her research focuses on the modelling, control and optimisation of solar thermal energy systems. She has more than 10 years of experience in this field and has worked on 20 national and international R&D projects.