Director of ESS Bilbao, a public consortium bringing knowledge and added value in particle accelerators and neutron scattering science and technologies by leveraging Spanish in-kind contribution to the European Spallation Neutron Source. An advocate as well of the so called HiCANs and currently the Chair of the ELENA Association. Before he was involved in Fusion Energy R&D programmes. He held the role of Project Coordinator at EUROfusion and Director of the PMO at IFMIF/EVEDA (Japan).