Biography

José Villar was born in 1967 in Madrid. He received the degree in Electronic Engineering in 1991 and his Ph.D in 1997 from the School of Industrial Engineering-ICAI at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain. From 1997 to 2017 he was Researcher at the Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica-IIT (Institute for Research in Technology) of ICAI, and Deputy Director of IIT from 2004 to 2016, and was Senior Associate Professor at the ICAI Electronic and Communications Department, and member of the Doctorate Academic Comission of Comillas University from 2013 to 2017.
He is currently Senior Researcher at the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) in its Center for Power and Energy Systems (CPES), where he coordinates the area of Electricity Markets.
He has participated in more than 50 research projects with industry and administrations, coordinating more than 20, and is co-author of more than 90 papers in International journals and conferences. His current areas of interest include electricity markets modelling and regulation, and the operation and strategic planning of power systems in the current context of energy transition.