Antonio Gómez Expósito, elected as a full member of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Antonio Gómez Expósito, elected as a full member of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Antonio Gómez Expósito Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville (ETSi), has been elected a Full Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAI) at the plenary session held on November 18. The Academy plans to hold the official induction ceremony and the reading of his inaugural address next spring, following the usual schedule for the induction of new members.
The election of Antonio Gómez Expósito as a full member of the Royal Academy of Engineering constitutes a recognition of his scientific, teaching and technology transfer career, as well as his contribution to the advancement of electrical systems in Spain.
The RAI includes among its members prominent professors from the ETSi, including its current president, Jaime Domínguez Abascal, which demonstrates the School's strong presence in this leading consultative body in Spain.
Scientific, academic and professional career
Gómez Expósito has been a professor at the University of Seville since 1992, where he headed the Department of Electrical Engineering for twelve years and where he currently serves as one of the leading experts in electrical power systems. Since 2024, he has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing), one of the most prestigious technological universities in the world.
He has been an IEEE Fellow since 2005 and has directed the Endesa Chair since its creation in 2007, promoting strategic projects in the planning, operation, and digitalization of electrical networks. His scientific output includes more than 350 technical publications and a dozen internationally recognized textbooks, several of which are considered reference works in the analysis of electrical systems.
He has been a member of the editorial board of high-impact international journals, including Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (Q1 in JCR), where he is currently Deputy Editor-in-Chief. His training and outreach activities extend to more than one hundred courses and lectures given in 19 countries, consolidating a sustained international presence.
In the field of technology transfer, in 2012 he led the creation of Ingelectus, a Technology-Based Company of the University of Seville, dedicated to the development of advanced solutions for the management of electrical networks, which currently employs more than 30 engineers.
Distinctions and institutional activity
His career has been recognized with awards at various levels. Internationally, he received the Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award from the IEEE Power & Energy Society (2019). Nationally, he received the Gold Medal from the Spanish Association for the Development of Electrical Engineering (2013). At the regional level, he was awarded the III Juan López Peñalver Research Prize (2011), and locally, the City of Seville Prize (2005) and the Javier Benjumea and Fama Prizes from the University of Seville (2011).
Since 2013 he has been a Full Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Seville (RASC), where he maintains an active participation in scientific and outreach activities, and between 2018 and 2020 he was an advisor to Red Eléctrica de España, contributing to the strategic analysis of the national electricity transport network.
