Antonio González Jiménez holds a PhD in Advanced Chemistry from the Complutense University of Madrid. He is a Materials Engineer and Technical Engineer in Industrial Design, and has completed a Highly Specialized Master’s Degree in Plastics and Rubber Technology.

He is currently a lecturer and Academic Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design Engineering and Product Development at the Escuela Superior de Ingeniería y Tecnología (ESIT), UNIR – Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, where he also teaches in the Master’s Degree in Industry 4.0. His teaching activity focuses on materials engineering, manufacturing processes, additive manufacturing, and digital product development.

His professional background includes extensive experience in applied research and industrial innovation. He previously worked as a polymer characterization specialist at AIMPLAS (Plastics Technology Centre, Valencia), providing technical support and consultancy to national and international companies, and participating in R&D projects related to advanced materials, recycling, and technical and automotive applications.

He developed a significant part of his research career at the Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (ICTP-CSIC, Madrid), where his work focused on smart and shape-memory elastomeric materials. He also carried out a research stay at the Institute of Physics of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany).

Subsequently, he worked for three years as a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rey Juan Carlos University, where he delivered more than 800 hours of teaching in official undergraduate and master’s degree programmes in subjects such as Materials Science, Manufacturing Processes, and Packaging Technologies.

His current research interests are centred on smart and multifunctional polymeric materials, structure–property relationships in thermoplastic and crosslinked polymer systems, and the development of advanced polymer composites reinforced with micro- and nanofillers. In recent years, his work has increasingly incorporated digital tools and Industry 4.0 approaches, including additive manufacturing, numerical simulation, data-driven methods, and the application of artificial intelligence to materials design and manufacturing processes.