Awards

Awards and Recognitions

• May, 2025: I received the “Best Young Researchers Award (2024)” from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM). This award recognises and makes visible the work of young researchers at the UAM for their contribution to scientific development, as well as their national and international visibility as a leading research center.

• January, 2025: I received the “Juan Lopez de Peñalver Award (2024)” from the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering (RAING). This award recognises researchers/engineers under 40 years who have carried out outstanding development and innovation work in the field of engineering.

• August, 2024: Selected as one of the most influential researchers in the world according to “Ranking of the World Scientist: World Top 2%”, carried out by Stanford University and Elsevier. Check also additional information posted by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

• October, 2023: Our paper GANDiffFace received the “Best Paper Award” at the 11th IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures in IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023.

• October, 2023: Selected as one of the most influential researchers in the world according to “Ranking of the World Scientist: World Top 2%”, carried out by Stanford University and Elsevier.

• September, 2023: I received the “Outstanding Reviewer Award” in the IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2023).

• June, 2023: I received the “Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in 2019-2022” from the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI).

• September, 2021: I received the “Outstanding Reviewer Award” in the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2021).

• September, 2018: I received the “European Biometrics Industry Award (2018)” by the European Association for Biometrics (EAB).