Alejandro Maté is a Full Professor at the University of Alicante, where he has worked as a researcher and lecturer since obtaining his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Alicante in 2013. He works full-time in the Department of Software and Computing Systems, teaching in both English and Spanish thanks to his C2-level certification from the CAE of Cambridge. The rest of the summary provided below follows the guidelines of the DORA principles.

First, regarding scientific contributions and knowledge generation, throughout his career, Alejandro Maté has made significant contributions in multiple fields, with over 80 papers published. We can start by highlighting the first trace model for tracing the evolution of Data Warehouses, published in the 2012 edition of Information Systems (Q1), which ranked in the top 1% of citations in the field for several years (currently within the top 10%). Since then, his research scope has expanded to include Semantics, Requirements Engineering for AI (the first requirements model based on objectives for ML), IoT and Healthcare, among others. All these results have been communicated through high-impact JCR journals and international conferences, serving as the basis for many other researchers and scientific papers. The impact of his publications has enabled him to serve as a reviewer for several international conferences and JCR journals, as well as to collaborate with multiple international researchers. Around 33% of his research articles involve international collaborations.

Regarding funding, Alejandro Maté has been working with the Lucentia group on projects from the national program Retos y Generación de Conocimiento continuously since 2010 (5 projects). He has also participated in the international ERC Lucretius project (ERC Advanced Investigator Grant n.267856) at the University of Trento and has secured funding in multiple calls, including the APOSTD (APOSTD/2014/64) and Torres Quevedo (PTQ-15-07945) postdoctral calls, Eureka/CDTI (DQIoT Project E!11737/INNO-20171060) project, and the Generación de Conocimiento 2020 (AETHER, PID2020-112540RB-C43, coordinated project), where he has served as Principal Investigator and project director.

In addition to his role as project director, Alejandro Maté has been responsible for numerous contracts and transfer activities throughout his career. Since joining as permanent staff and Full Professor in 2019, he has also been in charge of the Requirements Engineering and Data Analytics research line at the Lucentia group. Among the technology transfer activities, we can highlight: 4 intellectual property registrations, two of which were transferred for the creation of the spin-off Lucentia Lab S.L., founded in 2015; multiple contracts for improving business operations through the application of Business Intelligence and AI techniques; and the award for best technological demonstration at the 2015 CASCON conference organized by IBM.

Finally, Alejandro Maté has supervised 5 completed doctoral theses so far, two of which have been integrated into the Lucentia research group, while one serves as an external collaborator and director at StrateBI. Throughout the thesis development, he has been responsible for their training in research introduction, academic writing skills, critical evaluation of scientific proposals, methodology, and the functioning of the university and scientific system, among other areas. He has also overseen the search for funding opportunities to support and advance their scientific careers.