Álvaro Noriega is BSc in Mechanical Engineering (1999), MSc in Industrial Engineering (2004) and PhD (2008) at the University of Oviedo (Spain). Since 2007 he has been working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Construction and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Oviedo. He reached the rank of Associate Professor in 2017.

He has participated in numerous research projects and has published more than 40 papers in the following topics:

• Tribology
• Additive manufacturing
• Materials
• Machine design and simulation of mechanisms and vehicles
• Biomechanics
• Application of artificial intelligence techniques to engineering problems
• Education in mechanical engineering

He has carried out two pre-doctoral stays with research groups of Galicia and the Basque Country (Spain) and one post-doc in Switzerland.