In April 2016, Dr. Enrique Hortal joined the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, as member of the RAI (Robotics, Agents and Interactions) group as post-doctoral researcher. Since August 2019 He works as assistant professor in the same department. His teaching activities are mainly related to Computer Science and Machine Learning. From the academic year 2019/2020 Enrique is also the Bachelor thesis coordinator of the DKE department.

Enrique Hortal has a background in brain signal processing and classification as member of the Brain Machine Interface Systems Lab at Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Spain. In this group, he developed his first experience as researcher, obtaining the PhD on Industrial and Telecommunications Technologies in February 2016.