Dr. Joaquín was born in Sevilla in 1986, where he studied mathematics and computer engineering at the university. He lived in Belgium and Germany before moving to Santiago de Compostela in 2014, where he has worked as a research and development scientist since then. Joaquín joined Mestrelab Research in November 2018, becoming part of the RICA Team. In 2019 he earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Sevilla, with his dissertation involving quantum computing and numerical semigroups.