Enric Trillas

Enric Trillas, born in Barcelona in 1940, earned a PhD in Sciences from the University of Barcelona and became a professor at the Technical University of Catalonia in 1974. In 1989 he moved to the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where he was a professor in the Artificial Intelligence Department until September 2006. Previously, among other posts, he was Vice-Rector of the Technical University of Catalonia, President of CSIC (the Spanish Council for Scientific Research), Director General of the National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA), Secretary General of the National Plan for Scientific and Technological Research, and President of Ingeniería y Servicios Aeroespaciales (INSA).

He has received numerous awards and appointments: he is a Fellow of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA), and has received the Fuzzy Pioneers Award of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technologies, the Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and the Kampé de Fériet Award.

He has published over 200 papers in journals, conference proceedings and books. His current research interests are fuzzy logic and reasoning methods: conjectures, hypotheses and consequences.