Moya Fernández, José Manuel

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Office: B-305
Email: jm.moya@upm.es
Phone: 91 067 22 20
Group: LSI

About me

My research focuses on the transformation of Europe’s digital infrastructure (data centres, edge, and distributed capabilities) through a systemic, data-driven efficiency approach, moving beyond local metrics and partial perspectives.

I work on the design of operational models that integrate:

Operations based on real operational data and granular observability
Energy and thermal analysis beyond PUE
Predictive control and early anomaly detection
Federation of underutilised capacity and distributed resources
Energy system integration, waste-heat reuse, and hardware circularity
Application-specific architectures and advanced cooling solutions (including two-phase immersion)

The current European context (shaped by the expansion of AI, increasing regulatory demands, and climate targets) highlights the limitations of the dominant operational model. To effectively comply with the EED, CSRD, the Data Act, and the objectives of the Digital Decade, digital infrastructures must operate as interconnected systems rather than isolated assets.

For more than 15 years, I have collaborated with data centre operators, public administrations, standardisation bodies, and R&D teams, combining applied research and technology transfer to address real-world challenges in energy efficiency, operations, and sustainability.

My goal is to contribute to a European digital infrastructure that is more efficient, flexible, sustainable, and sovereign, through applied engineering and validation in real operational environments.

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Subjects taught

Subject	Degree	Role
Electronic Systems Engineering (ISEL)	Degree in Telecommunication Technologies and Services Engineering (GITST)	Teaching Staff
Sensor Networks (RESE)	Degree in Engineering and Data Systems (GISD)	Coordinador
Advanced Embedded Systems (SEMA)	University Master's Degree in Electronic Systems Engineering (MUISE)	Coordinador
Big Data Engineering (BDEN)	University Master's Degree in Computational Biology (MUBC)	Coordinador

Biography

José M. Moya received the Telecommunication Engineering degree (equivalent to an M.Sc.) and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 1996 and 2003, respectively.

Since 2010, he has been an Associate Professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor) in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM).

His research focuses on energy efficiency in data centres, data-driven operation of digital infrastructures, edge computing, and distributed cyber-physical systems. His work addresses the design and validation of architectures, models, and tools to improve the efficiency, reliability, and sustainability of computing infrastructures.

He has participated in and led competitive research projects and industry collaborations, with results applied and validated in real data-centre and edge-computing environments. He is the author of numerous international scientific publications and has supervised several Ph.D. theses in these areas.

He has also held scientific management roles, including Director of CeSViMa, UPM’s high-performance computing centre, and Secretary of the Center for Computational Simulation.

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