My research interests are in logics for Knowledge Representation and especially in ontology-based technologies and their applications to the Semantic Web.
I have been recently involved in the design of the ontology language OWL 2 (previously known as OWL 1.1), and have participated in the development of various techniques, algorithms and tools for ontology design and maintenance.
I was born in Valencia (Spain) in 1978. In 2001 I joined the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at the Universidad de Valencia. In 2002, I obtained an F.P.U doctoral fellowship (Beca para la Formacion del Profesorado Universitario) from the Spanish government, which funded my research. My doctoral fellowship also allowed me to visit the University of Maryland at College Park, where I completed my doctoral work on Knowledge Representation and Semantic Web technologies. In 2005 I defended my Ph.D. dissertation and soon after I joined the Information Management Group at the University of Manchester as a postdoctoral Research Fellow. After two years in Manchester, I joined the Computing Laboratory at the University of Oxford as a Research Officer. I have recently been awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship which will fund my research at Oxford for the next 5 years. I am a member of the Information Systems group led by Prof. Georg Gottlob and Prof. Ian Horrocks.
