Dr. Juan Manuel Moreno Arostegui,  PhD in Telecommunications Engineering, holds currently an Associate Professor position at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Technical University of Catalunya (UPC), in Barcelona, Spain. He is the coordinator of the POETIC IST project, and in the past he has participated in other projects funded by the EC in the area of programmable devices (RECONF2 and FIPSOC projects) and artificial neural networks models (ELENA project). His research interest include bio-inspired computing techniques, artificial neural networks models and architectures for programmable devices