José Luis is a Professor of Economics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and former Chair of the Department of Economics.
He currently is a Visiting Professor at the Erasmus University, and a Visiting Fellow to the Erasmus Research Institute of Management ERIM. His research interests lay on the general field of theoretical and applied Microeconomics, concretely: Benchmarking performance, Innovation, and Computational Methods. He has published over 40 papers in journals and book chapters and led relevant national projects bringing together different universities, institutions, and stakeholders. He is also an active consultant to the European Commission (Joint Research Center), World Property Intellectual Organization (UN), and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.