Jesualdo Tomás Fernández Breis was born in Archena, Murcia on May 20, 1976. He received a Bs degree in Computer Science from the University of Murcia in 1997, and a Ms degree in Computer Engineering from the same university in 1999. He obtained a European PhD degree in Computer Engineering in 2003 from the University of Murcia, which was possible thanks to a PhD Scholarship from the Seneca Foundation.

He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics and Systems, which he joined in 2003. He has served as Vicedean of the School of Computer Science at the University of Murcia (Spain) from 2006 to 2010. Some of his responsabilities were the International Exchange Programmes and the Industrial Placements of our students. He was part of the organizing committee of the XXV Anniversary of the computing studies at the University of Murcia. In 2010 he has become Web Coordinator of the University of Murcia.

His work “Enriching the Gene Ontology via the Dissection of Labels using the Ontology Preprocessor Language” (J.T. Fernandez-Breis, L. Iannone, I. Palmisano, A. Rector, R. Stevens) has been awarded as **Best Research Paper** at EKAW 2010

He has been keynote speaker at SATBI 2011

He is guest editor(with Mikel Egaña and Michel Dumontier) of the Special Issue on Linked Data for Health Care and the Life Sciences in the Semantic Web Journal, whose deadline is April, 1st.

His PhD thesis (Chapter 8 is a summary in English) targeted the automatic integration of ontologies for building Knowledge Management systems. His research activity has been mainly done in the area of Semantic Web and Ontological Engineering from a technological perspective, and applied to Biomedical domains and E-Learning. He has taken part in and directed various research projects and has published several papers in JCR journals. He has also done research stays in prestigious research institutions.

His main current activity is focused on the research of Semantic Web technologies for Medical Informatics, Bioinformatics and E-learning. A brief description of my activity in these areas are described next:

• Medical Informatics: Our work is mainly devoted to the use of ontologies to manage clinical archetypes and electronic healthcare records. We are currently working with both ISO 13606 and OpenEHR standards. To date, we have produced a set of EHR-related OWL ontologies and a system to transform ADL archetypes into OWL ones and to transform archetypes and data extracts between such standards.

• Bioinformatics: We are developing methodologies and frameworks for quality evaluation and enhancement of bio-ontologies, and tools for the semantic integration of biological information and knowledge. We have recently developed OGO and its Linked Open Data version OGOLOD, which provides the semantic integration of biomedical resources about orthology and genetic diseases.

• E-Learning: We are addressing different issues related to Semantic Web-based student assessment. On the one hand, the OeLE project attempts to evaluate automatically open questions written in natural language and using Semantic Web technologies to rank individuals in groups work and promoting self-assessment and autonomous learning. In this area, we are currently able to generate useful semantic feedback for both students and teachers and to design personalized courses based on the skills and knowledge of the person. On the other hand, the Semantic Educative Curriculum project attempts to facilitate the management of the educative curriculum by using Semantic Web technologies and accomplishing standard quality criteria.