The team who will work along with the director in his term of office is comprised of Inmaculada Coma, Sonia Loras, Ángel Robles, Joan Vila and Miguel García, who will replace professor Fran Grimaldo. We thank Fran Grimaldo for his dedicated work to the ETSE and the Universitat all these years. The team will reshape the structure of the offices of the vice-principals to achieve greater efficiency and an equitable distribution of tasks.

José Rafael Magdalena Benedicto graduated in Physics in 1991 and obtained his PhD in Physics Sciences in 2000 from the Universitat de València. Professor at the Universitat de València since 1994, he is currently part of the Department of Electronical Engineering, attached to the School of Engineering of the Universitat de València. He was an intern at AIDO (Technology Park, 1992), head of Medical Physics at Dextromédica (1993), web developer at the ADEIT Foundation (1996-1997) and adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Systems and Computing at the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (1998). He has been director of the Department of Electronical Engineering of the UV and member of the Senate, of the Governing Council and of the Economic Commission of the UV. He has also been a founding partner of three technological companies and mayor of the town of Segorbe in Castellón.

His research work began in biomedical engineering and telemedicine, and he has been conducting his research in the area of Machine Learning since 2003. He has published 43 articles internationally and 23 books and book chapters. He also has 97 reports to conferences. He has been principal investigator in four projects and has participated as a researcher in 30 European and national projects. He has been a member of IEEE and INNS (International Neural Network Society). His areas of interest are advanced data visualisation, optimisation problems and quantum machine learning.