Francisco J. Aragón Artacho received his degree in Mathematics from the University of Alicante (Spain) in 2002, and a Ph.D. in optimization in 2007 at the University of Murcia (Spain). After working as a Portfolio Valuation Analyst for a business company in Madrid for 9 months, he took a postdoctoral position of 3 years at the University of Alicante, supported by the "Juan de la Cierva" program. In 2011 he became a Research Associate at the Priority Research Centre for Computer-Assisted Research Mathematics and its Applications (CARMA) at the University of Newcastle (Australia) under the direction of Prof. Jonathan Borwein. Two years later, in September 2013, he moved to Luxembourg for a postdoctoral position (AFR Postdoc-Marie Curie Fellow) at the Systems Biochemistry Group at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine. In November 2014 he left the group and joined the University of Alicante as senior researcher under the competitive "Ramón y Cajal" program. In September 2021 he became an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Alicante. His research focuses on variational analysis and optimization algorithms.