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; the recovered 2008 CV also records earlier freelance programming
The recovered 2008 CV extracts add Applesoft BASIC programming in 1983, freelance work in 1984, Macintosh support in 1985–1987, university database work in 1987–1989 and OCCAM/Transputer work around 1990. They also place the 1999 Eurofighter assignment in Rochester.
Source discrepancies remain open: the 2008 CV dates Marseille to November–December 1994 rather than September, names Lisbon rather than Monsaraz for the 1997 school, and describes an APEX/Infomail assignment at Telefónica in 1997–1998 rather than the later Aran Software/Infovía Plus wording. These accounts have not been silently merged.
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
Slide decks that survived on old machines, for these and other talks, are collected at Talks and slides, 2003–2016.
- 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