About me
Resume
Francisco Javier Muros completed his studies in Telecommunications Engineering in 2004, received the Diploma of Advanced Studies in Automation and Robotics in 2008, and received his PhD Laude and with an International Mention under the Doctoral Program in Automation, Robotics and Telematics in 2017, all from the University of Seville. He has been accredited as a Contracted Professor by the ACCUA and by ANECA since 2023, and has two Six-Year Research Periods recognized by ANECA in the 2012-2017 and 2018-2023 periods.
Since 2005, he has been working at Endesa's South Control Centre as a Remote Operation Technician for the Electricity Grid, in Medium Voltage from 2005 to 2022, and in High Voltage from 2023, acquiring extensive experience in real-time operation and maintenance of the electricity grid. In 2014 he completed a Master's Degree in Design, Construction and Maintenance of High Voltage Electrical Infrastructures, from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas-ICAI, being Content Coordinator of this Master's Degree between 2015 and 2016. In addition, since 2019 he has been working at Loyola University Andalusia, as an Associate Professor until 2024, and since then as an Adjunct Professor, having taught more than 20 teaching credits and directed numerous bachelor's and master's degree final projects.
Francisco Javier pertenece al Grupo de Investigación TEP-116 de la Universidad de Sevilla desde 2010, donde participa activamente como investigador, dirigiendo una tesis en la actualidad, y también al Grupo ODS de la Universidad Loyola Andalucía desde 2024. Ha realizado dos estancias internacionales de 3 meses: en el Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) de la Maastricht University, Países Bajos, en 2016, y en el Departamento de Electrónica de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, Colombia, en 2025. Ha participado en los proyectos de la Unión Europea DYMASOS and OCONTSOLAR, and in various projects at national and regional level. He is a member of the journal's Editorial Team Archives of Control Sciences (Q2 in JCR) since 2021. He is the author or co-author of more than 30 scientific publications, highlighting 11 articles indexed in JCR (7 Q1, 3 Q2, 1 Q4), 19 contributions to international conferences, and the books "Cooperative Game Theory Tools in Coalitional Control Networks" (Springer, 2019) and "Random Binary Signals to Identify Nonlinear Systems. Re-edition of Javier Aracil's Thesis" (Aula Magna McGraw Hill, 2024). His main lines of research include coalitional control, cooperative game theory, and distributed predictive control.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER
The following diagram summarizes, year by year, my career in both the workplace and university. Below, my most relevant academic achievements are developed in biographical mode: the Telecommunications Engineering degree, culminated with the Final Degree Project, the Diploma of Advanced Studies that gave me the opportunity to start the Thesis, the Master's Degree in High Voltage Electrical Infrastructures, which allowed me to acquire a global vision of the operation of my company, Endesa, and finally, the achievement of the Thesis itself, which opened the key to teaching and directing doctoral theses, culminating in obtaining my first two six-year Research Periods in 2023 and 2024.
- 2004
- 2006 - 2008
Tras entrar a trabajar en el Centro de Control de Media Tensión de Endesa en 2005, la inquietud por el mundo de la investigación hizo que Francisco Javier se matriculase poco después en el Programa de Doctorado «Automática y Robótica» (RD 778/1998) del Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática de la Universidad de Sevilla. El periodo de docencia, realizado en dos cursos académicos para poderlo compaginar su trabajo en Endesa, constó de asignaturas de alta especialización en control automático, complementada con seminarios de las figuras más relevantes del mundo del control a nivel mundial. Obtuvo una calificación media de Sobresaliente. En el primer curso coincidió e hizo amistad con otro alumno de doctorado, Pepe Maestre, quien más adelante sería clave para la realización de la tesis.
En su tercer curso académico, Francisco Javier se matricula en el periodo de investigación, ya bajo el nuevo Programa de Doctorado «Automática, Robótica y Telemática» (RD 1393/2007) del mismo departamento. Este periodo consistía en realizar un trabajo de investigación, conocido antiguamente como «tesina», cuya superación conducía a la obtención del Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (DEA), que otorgaba la suficiencia investigadora para poder comenzar una tesis. Dicha tesina titulada «Análisis de la Influencia y Compensación de Retardos en un Sistema de Control con Saturación y en una Estrategia de MPC Distribuido», was defended on 26/06/2008, together with the students Brahim Ayyat and Ramón Cano, in the Seminar of the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation of the University of Seville, obtaining the qualification of Outstanding. Part of the material presented serves Francisco Javier to publish in his first two congresses, the CONTROLO 2008 of Vila-Real and the JJAA 2008 of Tarragona.
- 2009 - 2015
After obtaining the DEA and for personal reasons, Francisco Javier decides to embark on the path of the thesis in the future and remains in the research landscape with minor contributions. This does not mean that he remains connected to the academic world, obtaining the title of Senior Technician in Occupational Risk Prevention (2009). That same year, Endesa had the opportunity to study a prestigious degree from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, the Master's Degree in Design, Construction and Maintenance of High Voltage Electrical Infrastructures. After several years combining the study of the Master with the work in the control center, and with the beginning of the doctorate itself, Francisco Javier receives his master's degree on 22/12/2015, obtaining an average grade of 8.5 and finishing in the 6% percentile of the historical results of said master's degree.
A few months before, on 12/06/2015, he gives a speech at the graduation ceremony of his promotion, in which he is offered to collaborate with the Structuralia training platform as Training Content Coordinator of the master's degree, a position he holds throughout the 2015-16 academic year.
- 2012 - 2017
In mid-2011, Francisco Javier resumed thesis studies, mainly motivated by a doctoral ordinance that limits to 2016 (finally extended to 2017) the maximum date to defend the theses of old plan. After several meetings with professors of the department, he receives some proposals, but he is neither dazzled by the ideas nor knows where to start working. Luckily, on 10/01/2012 he held a crucial meeting with Pepe Maestre, who after finishing his thesis in 2010 had focused his professional development at the university. In this meeting, Pepe proposes to be his thesis director, and focus on continuing some open questions left by his own thesis entitled «Distributed Model Predictive Control Based on Game Theory». En concreto le habla de aplicar herramientas de teoría de juegos y control distribuido a las redes inteligentes o «Smart Grids». Durante todo 2012, Francisco Javier se dedica a adquirir una base teórica de teoría de juegos cooperativos y control distribuido, e inscribe la memoria de proyecto de tesis «Aplicaciones de Teoría de Juegos y Técnicas de Control Distribuido a las Redes Inteligentes» in early 2013. His thesis directors would finally be Pepe Maestre himself, Encarnación Algaba, expert professor in cooperative game theory of the Department of Applied Mathematics II of the University of Seville, and Eduardo F. Camacho, eminence of predictive control, and professor of the Department of Automation Systems Engineering.
After a hard period of learning and some disappointments, the first fruits of the doctorate in 2014 arrive, in the form of congresses: ECC Strasbourg and IFAC of Cape Town, where the foundations of the first line of research are laid, based on applying restrictions on the Shapley value of the communication links of a coalition control system. In 2015, in the ACC de Chicago, the wickers of a second line are laid where the Shapley value is used to partition Barcelona's water network. In addition, throughout 2015 work was done on two other new lines of research, based on applying the value of Banzhaf and Harsanyi's power solutions to coalition control. In the first half of 2016, a three-month predoctoral stay was carried out at the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) of Maastricht University, the Netherlands, under the supervision of Professor Katerina Stankova, and from whose collaboration an article for the conference emerged CDC de Melbourne, outside the thesis line, but relevant as it is the most prestigious world congress of control. Finally, in 2017 the great fruits of the thesis arrive in the form of three publications in Q1 journals in JCR, associated with three lines of research. Although the last line would not be reflected in the fourth article in Q1 journal of the thesis until 2018, there was already enough material to read the thesis.
After modifying the thesis project in February and making the thesis deposit on 29/05/2017, Francisco Javier defends his thesis on 19/09/2017 at 12:00 in the Board Room of the Higher Technical School of Engineers of the University of Seville. The panel was composed of professors: Carlos Bordons, Carlos Ocampo-Martinez, Jean Derks, Stefano Moretti, and Teodoro Álamo. After about 2 hours of presentation and questions, the jury awards the thesis «Cooperative Game Theory Tools in Coalitional Control Networks» the rating of Outstanding Laude unanimously and the International Mention to the title of doctor. The quality of the thesis would be awarded in later years with a 2nd prize in AISTI, a 3rd prize in CEA-Springer, and with the publication of a homonymous book in the prestigious Springer Theses Series. Likewise, the achievement of the doctorate allows Francisco Javier the possibility of directing doctoral students, as well as being able to teach at the university.
COLLABORATORS
Jose Maria Maestre
Eduardo F. Camacho
Encarnación Algaba
Paula Chanfreut
Carlos Ocampo-Martinez
Theodore Alamo
Javier G. Martin
Antonio Ferramosca
Francisco Lopez-Rodriguez
Daniel Saracho
Kateřina Staňková
Li You
Paul Velarde
Kazem Shahverdi
Eva Masero
Filiberto Fele
ACADEMIC FAMILY TREE
Just as biologically one descends from ancestors, academically a similar scheme can be constructed by iteratively considering thesis supervisors as parents. The following graph includes my academic ancestors until reaching the first non-Spanish doctors. Certainly, the concept of thesis was born in Spain in 1847, being the previous doctorates associated with festive events reserved for wealthy people, without the requirement of the elaboration of a thesis as such. In any case, if the ascending line is continued, figures as relevant as Laplace, Fourier, Euler, Bernoulli, or Copernicus, among many others, appear. Needless to say, for me it is a real honor to share photo with each and every one of the members of this tree, to whom I am deeply grateful for their contribution in one way or another to the achievement of my doctoral thesis. I have included as data the title and year of their theses, as well as the university and the field in which they received their doctorate. If any doctor listed wishes to modify your information, I will be happy to assist you personally at info@franmuros.net.
