Vicente López received the Ph.D degree in quantum chemistry from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain, in 1981. From 1981 to 1983, he was a Research Fellow with the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and from 1984 to 1988, he was a Professor at the Department of Chemical Physics, UAM. His research during those years was in theoretical chemical physics and computational physics. In 1989, he joined the Institute of Knowledge Engineering (IIC), UAM, which is a research institute owned by UAM, IBM, and two other major Spanish companies. At the IIC, he lead the neural network group and became IIC technical director in 1993. At IIC, he was involved in basic and applied research projects in real-time control, expert systems, pattern recognition, and data mining. Later, he became Full Professor of computer science at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Informática, UAM. From 1996 to 2001, he developed an applied research project for Grupo PRISA to create R&D teams in the areas of electronic publishing, internet communication, and interactive digital TV. Since 2001, he has been Full Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, where he is the Director of the Chair Cátedra Telefónica de Social Media and Vicepresident of the Barcelona Media Centre d'Innovació (an Innovation Center for the Media Industry). Since 1989, he has been an active researcher in the field of artificial intelligence, neural networks, optical computing, and information processing in natural systems. He is author of more than 50 research articles.