Prof. Rafael Capilla, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain

Biography. Prof. Rafael Capilla received his PhD in Computer Science from the Technical University of Madrid. He is currently a full professor of software engineering at two Spanish universities and an adjunct professor at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland, since November 2022.

Over the past 20 years, Prof. Capilla has taught and conducted research in the fields of software architecture, architectural knowledge, software product line engineering, dynamic variability, technical debt, software sustainability, Industry 4.0, and the application of large language models (LLMs) to software engineering challenges.

He has completed more than 12 Erasmus teaching visits and numerous research stays across Europe and Latin America, including the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. In 2019, he was a visiting professor at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), where he taught a master's-level course on Advanced Software Architectures.