Curriculum vitae

Alejandro Enrique Rivero Gracia · Zaragoza, Spain

Condensed from the Spanish normalised CV (CVN) generated by the Universidad de Zaragoza on 18 September 2026. The full document is available as CVN-Alejandro-Rivero.pdf (22 pages, in Spanish, with the CVN-XML embedded for import into other systems). Publications have their own page. Identifiers: ORCID 0000-0002-6689-214X, Scopus author 7005091001, ResearcherID G-9552-2011.

Current position

• Researcher, Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos (BIFI), Universidad de Zaragozafull time since November 2023
• Director of R&D, Kampal Data Solutions S.L., Zaragozathe BIFI spin-off, founded 3 March 2014; data scientist there from 2017 under a Torres Quevedo grant

Education

• PhD in Physics, Universidad de Zaragoza, 1995thesis Scattering Potential, supervised by Luis J. Boya; cum laude
• Licenciado en Ciencias Físicas (General Physics), Facultad de Ciencias, Zaragoza, 1990

Research stays and schools

• Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridgeinvited participant, programme on noncommutative geometry, September to December 2006
• Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS, MarseilleFPU fellowship, September 1994
• Summer school on noncommutative geometry and applications, Monsaraz, 1997participant and tutor
• Les Houches summer school on quantum symmetries, 1995
• XXVIII Karpacz Winter School of Theoretical Physics, 1992

Professional experience outside the university

• Information-systems consultant to Applied Advanced Analytics FZ, Dubai2015
• System test engineer, GEC-Marconi, Eurofighter programmecontracted through Indra and Olvasoft, 1999
• Systems engineer and analyst, Infovía Plus at Telefónica I+Dcontracted through Aran Software, 1997
• Sun Microsystems training on Volume Manager and SPARCstorage Array1997
• Programmer of a lexicographic search engine, Universidad de Zaragoza1989, my first paid project

Teaching

• Mathematical and computational methods in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physicsPython module, Master in Physics of the Universe, Universidad de Zaragoza, 2021–2022; materials
• Programming, and Data StructuresIngeniería Técnica de Telecomunicación, Universidad de Zaragoza, 2001–2006
• Introduction to computing, and Integral calculus for EconomicsUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2000–2001
• Associate professor of theoretical physicsLicenciatura en Físicas, Universidad de Zaragoza, 1996–1997
• Problem classes, Mathematical Methods of Physics IUniversidad de Zaragoza, 1993–1994

Supervised student projects

• Evaluation models in artificial intelligence and machine learningbachelor's thesis, 2024, with David Iñiguez
• ZHID: mouse and joystick from a Zaurus PDAfinal-year project, 2006
• USB mouse from the camera of a Zaurus PDAfinal-year project, 2005
• A Windows pointer driven by a mini-camera, in two parts: operating-system interface, and image analysisfinal-year projects, 2003 and 2004
• Web application for the Anales de Aragónfinal-year project, 2003, with Raquel Lacuesta; awarded matrícula de honor

Competitive research projects

Member of the research team unless stated otherwise. Principal investigator in brackets.

• IGNITE: HPC-based efficiency optimisation of industrial fired preheatersFFplus, European Union, 2025–2026 (David Iñiguez)
• Artificial intelligence and complex networks to detect unwanted loneliness, rejection and suicidal ideation in adolescentsGobierno de Aragón and Colegio Alemán, 2024–2026 (Tatiana Iñiguez)
• CONVIVEN-CI-IA: socio-emotional skills for online coexistence through AI and collective-intelligence tools in schoolsGobierno de Aragón and Fundación Edelvives, 2024–2026 (Santos Orejudo)
• Collective-intelligence tools to prevent adolescent vulnerability on social networks: cyberbullying, abuse and risk behaviourGobierno de Aragón and Kampal, 2021–2023 (Santos Orejudo)
• COMPHYS, supercomputing and physics of complex and biological systemsGobierno de Aragón reference group, 2017–2019 and 2020–2022 (David Iñiguez)
• Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos, consolidated group E24/3Gobierno de Aragón, yearly 2008–2016 (Alfonso Tarancón, later David Iñiguez)
• Advanced computation in complex systems and transport phenomena, FIS2012-35719-C02-02MINECO and FEDER, 2013–2015 (David Iñiguez)
• Expert system for the probability and severity of network incidentsMINECO, 2013–2015 (Alfonso Tarancón)
• PLEXMATH: mathematical framework for multiplex networksEuropean Union FP7, 2012–2015 (Yamir Moreno)
• Socientize: society as infrastructure for e-science through technology, innovation and creativityEuropean Union FP7, 2012–2014 (Alfonso Tarancón)
• SCI-BUS: scientific gateway based user supportEuropean Union FP7, 2011–2014 (Alfonso Tarancón)
• Advanced computation in materials and transport phenomena, FIS2009-12648-C03-02Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and FEDER, 2010–2012 (Alfonso Tarancón)
• Complexity in materials and in quantum and classical transport, FIS2006-08533-C03-02Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, 2006–2009 (Alfonso Tarancón)
• Geometric methods in dynamical systems: Poisson structures, integrability and quantisation, PB96-071DGES, 1997–2000 (José F. Cariñena)
• Scientific cooperation agreement with the INFN, ItalyCICYT, 1997–1998 (Manuel Asorey)

Contracts with companies and public bodies

• Exploratory data analysis for predictive maintenance of energy recuperatorsKalfrisa S.A. and Ministerio de Industria, from 2023
• Stress tests of the Shot & Shop visual search engine2014
• Relational analysis and model of the SMART TEST systemElectrónica Cerler S.A., 2014–2015
• Development and launch of Aragón Open SocialDataGobierno de Aragón, 2013–2014
• Centrality and community models in the customer networks of telecom operatorsTrustserver S.L., 2012
• A model for identifying unique customers of a mobile operatorApplied Advanced Analytics FZ, Dubai, 2011–2012

Technology transfer

• Kampal Data Solutions S.L.research spin-off of the Universidad de Zaragoza, founded 2014; I am one of its founders and its director of R&D
• Collective Intelligence platformknow-how agreement licensed to Kampal, shared between the University, Kampal and Fundación Ibercivis; live at ic.kampal.com
• Drones and scale modelsknow-how agreement, University, Kampal and Fundación Ibercivis
• Kampal research analytics and ARS social-network capture toolsknow-how agreement of the Universidad de Zaragoza, licensed

Conference talks

• Experience with distributed computing in the Ibercivis projectWONP-NURT 2011, La Habana
• Creating and managing tasks for crowds from Ibercivis4th plenary meeting of the Spanish e-Science network, Valencia, 2010
• Volunteer computinginvited lecture, summer course on applied advanced computation, Jaca, 2010
• CIVICO: citizen volunteer infrastructure for computingIBERGRID 2008, Porto
• ZIVIS: a city computing platform based on volunteer computingSpanish Conference on e-Science Grid Computing, Madrid, 2007, with Antolí, Castejón, Losilla, Reynolds, Sangiao, Serrano, Tarancón, Vallés and Velasco