Daniel Gutiérrez is a Full Professor at the Electronic Engineering Department of University of Seville, Spain, and his current research interests include the application of meta-heuristic, machine learning, and deep algorithms to solve water monitoring problems using autonomous systems. With a M.S. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications, and a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Seville, Seville, Spain, Dr. Gutiérrez was previously a Visitor Researcher with Liverpool John Moores University, U.K., the Free University of Berlin, Germany, the Colorado School of Mines, USA, and Leeds Beckett University, U.K. He was also an Assistant Professor with Loyola University, Spain, from October 2018 to April 2019. He has published 60+ JCR publications in the field and contributes as editorial board of several international journals.
Pablo Millán is the Director of the School of Engineering of Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Spain, and co-lead of the Optimization and Control of Distributed Systems (ODS) Research Group. Dr. Millán is a leading expert in intelligent systems and sustainable technologies, with over 60 research publications and leadership in major national and European R&D projects, including pioneering initiatives like AQUATRONC and ECOPORT, which advanced the control of autonomous marine vehicle fleets, and IRRIGATE, funded by the 2019 Andalusian R&D Call, which deals with the application of control and AI in smart agriculture. His international collaborations with institutions like KTH (Sweden), CNRS-LAAS (France), and Marquette University (USA) have enriched his global perspective on sustainable technology solutions, and his work has not only shaped academic discourse but also empowered communities—from Andalusia to Paraguay—through intelligent, scalable technologies.
Julián Blasco is a Research Professor and he was Director of the Institute for Marine Sciences of Andalusia from the Spanish Research Council (ICMAN-CSIC) from 2015–2023, and leader of the research group “Ecotoxicology, Ecophysiology and Biodiversity of Aquatic Systems”. He was President of the Iberoamerican Society of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, and a member of the SETAC Europe Council. Prof. Blasco has been involved in 60+ research projects and 25+ research contracts at national and international levels, and has published 250+ scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is co-editor in Chief of Marine Environmental Research journal and associate editor of several journals (e.g. Science of the Total Environment and Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, among others). He has also contributed to several book chapters, and co-edited the book Sunscreens in Coastal Ecosystems: Occurrence, Behavior, Effect and Risk, and the textbook Marine Analytical Chemistry, published by Springer in 2020 and 2023, respectively.