Javier García Martín is industrial engineer (BSc.+MSc.). His master thesis  consisted of the adaptation of an open source submersible Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) for monitoring environmental parameters and he performed an Erasmus internship at Azorean Aquatic Technologies (Lisbon), where the idea was to develop a product with these same characteristics from scratch. After this experience, he worked in two different firms for several years: Ernst and Young and ZonoSistem.

He did his PhD. with the research group of Automation and Industrial Robotics under the supervision of J. M. Maestre and E. F. Camacho. His thesis developed new algorithms for the distributed estimation of irradiance in a solar thermal plant using a fleet of robots.