GABINO
ALMONACID PUCHE

Gabino Almonacid Puche is Professor Emeritus from 2022 and was Full Professor in the Department of Electronic and Automatic Engineering and Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Energy and Environment at the University of Jaén. He graduated in Telecommunications Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) in 1978. In 1987, he completed his PhD at UPM with Professor Antonio Luque as doctoral advisor. At the University of Granada he has been Director of the Polytechnic High School (1986-1990), and at the University of Jaén he has been Head of the Technology Transfer Office (1993-1997) and Head of the Department of Electronic and Automatic Engineering (1999-2005). He is currently member of the Management Team of ELAND Private Equity, member of the Instituto de Estudios Giennenses and member of the Renewable Energy Institute of Andalusia. He established, in 1989, the Solar Energy Research Group of the University of Jaén. This research group comprises more than fifty researchers who have made relevant contributions over the past twenty-five years to engineering and to technological development of PV systems. Two of his most outstanding R&D projects are: - UniVer Project (a 200 kW PV generator integrated into the campus of the University of Jaén) - REBUILD Project (EU pilot project for renewable energies integrated into the historical city centers of Amsterdam, Coimbra, Corfú, Jaén, Perugia, Prato and Rhodes) He has published around fifty articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and almost a hundred papers in the proceedings of international conferences. In 2001, he was awarded the Distinción San Alberto Magno of the Polytechnic High School of Jaén, a special honor awarded to scholars who have made outstanding contributions to sciences.