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Manuel Berenguel received the industrial engineering (number 2 of XXI graduation) and Ph.D. (extraordinary doctorate award) degrees from the University of Seville, Spain. He is Full Professor of automatic control and systems engineering with the University of Almería, Spain. His research interests include control education and in predictive and hierarchical control, with applications to solar energy systems, agriculture, and biotechnology. He has been Vice-Rector of ICT at University of Almería (2007-2012) and is the head of the research group “Automatic Control, Robotics and Mechatronics” (arm.ual.es) from 2000. He has participated in more than 60 R&D projects and 30 contracts with companies. He is co-author of the books Advanced Control of Solar Plants (Springer, 1997), Control of Solar Energy Systems (Springer, 2012), Comfort Control in Buildings (Springer, 2014) and Modeling and Control of Greenhouse Crop Growth (Springer, 2014). He has been director and co-director of 16 PhD Thesis in these lines. He is co-author of more than 150 international journal papers, more than 200 papers in conferences and 4 patents.
He has participated in the International Program Committee of more than 10 international conferences (in one as IPC Chair), where he has been chairman in many occasions. He is reviewer of more than 15 renowned international journals (more than 100 reviews) and from 2013 is adjoin-director of the journal Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática Industrial (indexed in SCI). He has been member of the board of Governors of the Comité Español de Automática (main Spanish Association in Automatic Control) from 2004-2008 and 2012-2016, member of IEEE Control System Society from 2000 (Senior Member from 2012) and member of the IFAC Technical Committees TC 8.01 Control in Agriculture (2005-2012), TC 6.3. Power and Energy Systems (2005-2020) and TC 8.4 Biosystems and bioprocesses (2008-) and member of the Coordination and management committee of the Mixed R&D Center CIESOL between the University of Almería and CIEMAT- Spanish Research Center in Energy, Environment and Technology (from 2005) and member of Scientific Committee of IMDEA Energy from 2015. He was the organizer of the XXVII Jornadas de Automática (the annual meeting of the Spanish Automatic Control Committee) in 2006. He collaborates with researchers of foreign universities: Ghent (BE), Politechnika Wroclawska (PL), Brescia (IT), Lund University (SW), Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina (BR), Arizona State University (USA), Chapingo (MX).
He has taught Automatic Control & Robotics related subjects both in the University of Seville and the University of Almería in different University degrees: Industrial Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Industrial Electronics Engineering. He has also participated in several Master and Doctorate degrees: University of Seville, Department of Systems Engineering and Automatic Control (Advanced Control of Industrial Processes 1996/97, Advanced Control of Industrial Processes 2006/07, Predictive Control 2006/07); Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil (Predictive Control 1998/99); University of Almería (Advanced Computing Techniques 1998/99 to 2011/12, Agroplasticulture, informatics and automation in advanced agriculture 1999/00, Industrial computing 2008/09-2011/12, 2014/15, Intensive agriculture and protected crops 1999/00, Agroplasticulture, Agronics and sustainable rural development 2003/04 to 2006/07); National University of Distance Education (Spain): Informatics and Automatic Control (2004/05). Many virtual and remote laboratories have been developed for supporting all these teaching activities. He has participated in research networks related to control education.

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Universidad de Almería: Almería, Andalucía, ES

1993-02-01 to present | Professor (Departamento de Informática)
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Manuel Berenguel

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Universidad de Almería: Almería, Andalucía, ES

1993-02-01 to present | Prof. (Departamento de Informática)
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Manuel Berenguel

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