Department: INGENIERÍA ELECTRÓNICA Y AUTOMÁTICA

Centre/Institute: CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA, ENERGIA Y MEDIO AMBIENTE

Area: Electronics Technology

Research group: Laboratorio de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica aplicadas a la Energía Solar

Email: hontoria@ujaen.es

Personal web: http://www4.ujaen.es/~hontoria/

Doctor by the Universidad de Jaén with the thesis Generación de series sintéticas de radiación solar combinado herramientas estadísticas y redes neuronales 2002. Supervised by Dr. Jorge Aguilera Tejero, Dr. Pedro José Zufiria Zatarain.

Full Professor. Department of Electronic and Automatic Engineering. Higher Polytechnic School of Jaén. University of Jaén I hold a PhD in Physical Sciences (2002) and I have been a Full Professor at the University since 2003. All my research work has been focused on a well-defined line that could be called: "Applications of artificial neural networks in the field of solar energy". My thesis focused on an application of artificial intelligence techniques for the calculation of solar radiation, a necessary data in any system design based on the use of solar energy. The result of all this research has been around 50 publications in international journals, books and book chapters, more than 40 communications to congresses and around 50 research projects and contracts funded by different entities. In summary my lines of research are: photovoltaic solar energy, solar radiation and new methods for the study of solar radiation using artificial neural networks. Other research data: Total article citations 889 (WoS); 1102 (Scopus); h-index: 14 (WoS) 15 (Scopus);