José M. Maestre holds a PhD from the University of Seville, where he currently serves as a full professor. He has held positions at TU Delft, the University of Pavia, Kyoto University, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is the author of Service Robotics within the Digital Home (Springer, 2011), A Programar se Aprende Jugando (Paraninfo, 2017), Sistemas de Medida y Regulación (Paraninfo, 2018), and Model Predictive Control (Springer, 2025). He is also the editor of Distributed Model Predictive Control Made Easy (Springer, 2014) and Control Systems Benchmarks (Springer, 2025).

His research focuses on the control of distributed cyber-physical systems, with a special emphasis on integrating heterogeneous agents into the control loop. He has published more than 200 journal and conference papers and has led multiple research projects. His achievements have been recognized with several awards and honors, including the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering’s medal for his contributions to predictive control in large-scale systems and the distinction of becoming the youngest full professor in the Spanish university system in 2020.