Pablo Cortés Achedad is Full Professor in Industrial Engineering, PhD in Industrial Engineering from US Special Doctoral Award in Industrial Engineering US. Research interests focus on the fields: Soft Computing Computational Intelligence Operations Research transport and logistics energy efficiency and vertical transportation. Author/referee of academic articles in JCR journals such as: Applied Soft Computing Computers & Operations Research Interfaces International Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing Journal of the Operational Research Society International Journal of Production Research Simulation Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory Information Sciences y European Journal of Operational Research amongst others. He is member of the Editorial Board of Intelligent Control and Automation the International Journal of Computational Complexity and Intelligent Algorithms and Recent Patents in Computer Science. He has been also appointed as Guest Editor for several journals such as the International Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing or the Journal of Computational Science. Member of the research group “Ingeniería de Organización” TEP-‐127 of US. He has been Project Leader in 7 projects of the Spanish Research and Development Programme as well as project leader in numerous technology transfer projects funded by PROFIT AVANZA or CENIT programmes. He is Leader Project in more than twenty research contracts with private companies and inventor of 4 patents with international extension. He is evaluator for the ANEP RTD Spanish Programme the 7th Framework Programme and Horizon 2020. He has been Academic Director of the IAT “Engineering and Knowledge Management” Chair and General Manager of the Office for Research and Technology Transfer in the University of Seville. Currently he is General Manager of Association for Industrial Cooperation in Andalusia (AICIA).