Full professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid since 1984. Vice-Rector of the UAM, Chairman of the Department of Theoretical Physics and of the Institute of Theoretical Physics. Chairman of the Spanish Agency for the Evaluation of the Researchers. Co-founder of the Strasbourg Madrid Shell Model collaboration. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the ECT* (Trento). Scientific Associate at CERN. Member of the Academia Europaea.