Manuel G. Ortega is full professor at the Systems Engineering and Automation, University of Seville. He received his Industrial Engineer degree and his Doctor Engineer degree with award in 1995 and 2001 respectively from the University of Seville. His main research areas have been focused on robust control, in particular on Hinf control, and on nonlinear control; both areas applied to process control, robotics, and aircraft control. His is co-author of more than 100 technical papers, including international journals, conferences proceedings, and book chapters. His h-index is 26 according to Google Scholar. He has supervised 7 PhD theses.

He has worked on many public competitive research projects, including a FP7 European project, in areas such as the process control and robotics. Recently he has started a new research line on the control of refrigeration systems. Actually, he is the leader of four public competitive research projects in that field.

He has also worked on research projects with companies, being the leader of most of them. Some projects addressed on modelling, control and optimization of power solar plant, including thermal and high-concentration photovoltaic plants. The experience gained in those projects has contributed to the new lines of cold production and cold facilities management.

At the current time, M.G. Ortega is the main coordinator of the Control Engineering Thematic Group, under the Automatic Spanish Committee.