"I was born in Valladolid, Spain in 1963. My eclectic
academic background – an undergraduate physics degree, graduate work in
physics and computer science, and finally a doctoral programme in pure
mathematics – has allowed me to hop from one field to the next whenever
I have been tempted by an interesting challenge: intriguing problems
from the aerospace industry, speech-recognition systems, and data-mining
methodology, mainly for financial applications, an activity that I
currently juggle with logic-game design and my passion for prime
numbers."