Juan Manuel Martínez-Tarifa was born in Lorca, Spain, in 1975. He received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the M.Sc. degree in physics from the Universidad de Granada, Spain, in 1999 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain, in 2005. From 2000 to 2012, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, UC3M, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research has been conducted in the High-Voltage Research and Tests Laboratory (LINEALT), UC3M, where he is working on the diagnosis of insulation systems through ionization phenomena measurements and the characterization of dielectric materials. He has published over 70 papers in international journals and conferences and is co-author of 3 patents. He has joined several research teams to work in over 20 research projects financed by public and private funds.
