Dr. Angel Luis Garrido is a Computer Engineer and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Universitat Politècnica de València. He has more than 25 years of experience working in media companies, developing multimedia software for newsrooms, as well as manufacturing and logistics systems for printing companies. His main contribution has been the development of EMMA, a flexible and adaptive software for managing both agency news and historical collections of multimedia files. EMMA supports multiple formats and incorporates security, accessibility and information management capabilities. He is also the architect of ATENEA, a content planning and production management platform, used to organize proposals, articles, resources, workflows, schedules, and collaborative editorial processes across multiple publications and teams. In the field of industrial production, he has also designed and developed comprehensive manufacturing and logistics control systems for newspaper printing companies.

Alongside his professional activity in the media industry, he has combined his work with teaching and research. He taught at the University of Zaragoza for four years and has collaborated with the Distributed Information Systems Research Group (SID) at the University of Zaragoza on research, knowledge transfer and applied technology projects. His research interests include digital libraries, semantic technologies, natural language processing, information extraction, knowledge representation and intelligent information access. His doctoral research focused on DRESS (Data-Repository Enhancer through Semantic Sources), an architecture and methodology for enhancing private digital repositories through semantic technologies, enabling richer information access while preserving the autonomy and security of the underlying repositories.