• 2013/date: Associate Professor: Computer Science Dept. of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

• 2008/2013: "Ramón y Cajal" Fellow: Computer Science Dept. of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

• 2006/2008: "Juan de la Cierva" Fellow: Computer Vision Centre, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

• 2003/2006: Research Assistant: School of Biol. Sci, University of Bristol, UK

• 1998/2003: Research Assistant: Dept. of Exp. Psychology, University of Bristol, UK

• 1997/1998: Research Fellow: The Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK

Participation in research grants

• Title: Towards a sustainable AI: Continuous learning for energy efficient training of deep neural networks. Ecological and Digital Transition Projects 2021 (Hacia una IA sostenible: Aprendizaje continuo para el entrenamiento energéticamente eficiente de redes neuronales profundas. Proyectos de Transición Ecológica y Digital 2021). Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain. (Ref. TED2021-132513B-I00)

• Title: Neurons and Beauty: Learning the common bottom-up mechanisms of aesthetics and visual discomfort. Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain. (Ref. PID2020-118254RB-I00) (01/09/2021 - 31/12/2024)

• Title: Suport a les activitats dels Grups de Recerca (SGR 2017- modality: GRPreC - Grup de Recerca Preconsolidat). Generalitat de Catalunya (Ref. 2017 SGR 649)

• Title: Deep Networks in the Visual Brain: from measurements to algorithms. Secretary of Research and Innovation, Spain. (Ref. DPI2017-89867-C2-1-R)
  (01/01/2018 - 31/12/2021)

• Títle: Red Temática Iberoamericana sobre aplicaciones TICs para Ciudades Inteligentes (TICs4CI). Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo (CYTED), PI (CVC): Bogdan Raducanu, Coordinator (ESPOL): Angel Sappa (1/01/2018 – 31/12/2022).
  

• Title: Beauty is in the AI of the beholder: computer vision meets neuro-visual aesthetics.
  Secretary of Research and Innovation, Spain. (Ref. TIN2013-49982-EXP)
  (01/01/2015 - 28/02/2017)

• Title: Closing the loop: bio-inspired top-down feedback for computational vision systems.
  Secretary of Research and Innovation, Spain. (Ref. TIN2013-41751-P)
  (01/01/2014 - 31/12/2017)

• Title: An experiment to estimate the gamma transfer function of LCD monitors
  Truecolour LTD of Liverpool, UK
  (01/12//2011 to 28/02/2012)

• Title: Introducing colour information and attention mechanisms into bio-inspired vision models MEC (Spanish Ministry of Science) Ref. MEC TIN2010-21771-C02-01
  ( 01/01/2011 to: 31/12/2013)

• Title: Multimodal interaction in pattern recognition and artificial vision
  Consolider-Ingenio  Ref: CSD 2007-00018
  (01/01/2007 to: 01/11/2011)

• Title: CREATE – Colour Research for European Advanced Technology Employment
  Marie Curie Actions  Ref: 45963
  (01/01/2007  to: 31/12/2010)

• Title: Colour visual content management: modelling spatial perception and semantics
  MEC (Spanish Ministry of Science) Ref.   MEC TIN2007-64577
  (01/10/2007 to: 01/10/2010)

• Title: Suport a les activitats dels Grups de Recerca (SGR 2009- modality: GRC - Grup de Recerca Consolidat). Generalitat de Catalunya (Ref. 2009 SGR 669)

• Title: Automatic Textural annotation on image databases based on visual descriptors combining spatio-chromatic information
  MEC (Spanish Ministry of Science) Ref. MEC TIN2004-02970
  (13/12/2004 to: 13/12/2007)

• Title: Spatio-chromatic encoding of natural scenes in avian vision.
  BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, UK - S18903)
  (01/04/2003 to: 31/03/06)

• Title: : Is the human visual system optimised to the spatial statistics of luminance and chrominance contrast in natural scenes?
  BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, UK - S11501)
  (01/05/1999  to: 15/07/2002)

• Title: Is human vision optimised for natural scenes?
  MRC (Medical Research Council, UK - Grant No G9706380)
  (01/01/1998 to: 31/12/1998)

• Title: New techniques to the study of Amblyopia and measurements on how the deficits in the amblyopic visual system lead to problems with everyday discrimination tasks
  Fight for Sight, UK
  (05/05/1997  to: 31/12/1997)

• I3 Academic Excellence Award (2012) From the Spanish Ministry of Science.

• Ramón y Cajal Fellowship, from the Spanish Ministry of Science

• Juan de la Cierva Fellowship, from the Spanish Ministry of Science

• 2003: PhD. @ Bristol University, UK (Dept. of Exp. Psychology) Title: "Is the Human visual system optimised for encoding the statistical information of natural scenes?". See Abstract (locally). Download document (pdf).

• 1995: MSc. @ Bristol University, UK (Dept. of Exp. Psychology) Title: "Spatiochromatic information content of natural scenes". See Abstract (locally). Download document (pdf).

• 1993: Bachiller Universitario en Física (Physics degree), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT) Argentina.

• 1985: Técnico Mecánico Electricista (Electricity and Mechanics Technician), Instituto Técnico de la UNT, Argentina.

Graduate level

• PhD Co-Supervisor to Domicele Jonauskaite (with Prof. Christine Mohr). Dissertation name: "Universality of Colour-Emotion Associations". Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Géopolis 4129, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. PhD viva date: April, 2021.
  
• PhD Supervisor to Arash Akbarinia. Dissertation name: "Computational Modelling of visual Perception: From Colour to Form”. PhD in Computer Science degree program, School of Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. PhD viva date: October 2017.
• PhD Co-Supervisor to Jordi Roca-Vila (with Dr M. Vanrell). Dissertation name: "Introducing Higher Level Constraints to the Computational Colour Constancy Problem”. PhD in Computer Science degree program, School of Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. PhD viva date: November 2012.
• MSC supervisor to Daniel Hernandez Juarez, Marta Exposito Ventura and Olivier Penacchio.
• CVC internship supervisor to Daniel Arco Alonso (31/03/2020 - 22/06/2020) and Marc Graells Ricardo (1/06/2021 - 30/09/2021)
• Unit Instructor for the Master in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence, School of Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Undergraduate level

• Undergraduate teaching of “Artificial Intelligence I", "Databases” and "Multimedia Systems" at the Computer Science Dept., Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona.
• Guest Lecturer for the “Perception” course Undergraduate Program in Psychology, Dept. of Exp. Psychology, University of Bristol, UK.
• Teaching Assistant for the “Experimental Physics Laboratory I and II”, 1st and 2nd year Undergraduate Program in Physics, Department of Physics, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina.

• Reviewer to a number of
  - Journals: PLoS One, PLoS Comp. Biol., Journal of the Optical Society of America, Color Research and Applications, Network-Computation in Neural systems, Journal of Vision, Perception, i-Perception, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Displays, Biomedical Optics express, Frontiers in Psychology, Evolution and Human Behaviour)
  - Computer Vision Conferences: CVPR, ICCV and BMVC.
  - Science funding bodies: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC-UK) , National Science Foundation (NSF-US), European Research Council (ERC)
• Organizer of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP2016) in Barcelona
• Organizer and Chair of the Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC2016) in Barcelona
• Article in National Geographic España No.433 - Sep 2018 issue
• Interview for the local Catalan TV (TV3 - Els Matins 11/06/2018) (download 120Mb video)
• Interviewed for the Spanish National radio (RNE 03/06/2018) (download audio clip)
• Interviewed for the Spanish National TV (RTVE 13/03/2011) (download 350Mb video)
• Articles in the Spanish-Language Media: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)
• Participarion in the Colour Exhibition (Telefonica Foundation, Madrid)
• Curator of The Barcelona Calibrated Natural Images Dataset
• Curator of The Bristol Hyperspectral Images Database
• Mentor of The McGill Calibrated Colour Image Database
• Founder of the CVC Visual Psychophysics Laboratory