Graduate in Physical Sciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1980.

PhD in Physical Sciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1985.

From April 1985 to July 1986 he was a Postdoctoral Researcher of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC-DFG) at the Fraunhofer Institute für Solarenergie in Freiburg, Germany.

From 1987 to 1990 he worked as a Researcher at CIEMAT’s Institute of Renewable Energy.

Since October 1991 he has been a Professor in the Department of Applied Physics II at the University of Málaga and, since 2009, a Full Professor at the same university.

He has coordinated the photovoltaic systems research group at the University of Málaga from 1990 to the present.