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Fernando Alonso Fernandez is a Professor at the School of Information Technology, Halmstad University, Sweden, with a permanent position since 2017 and a full professorship since 2025. He also serves as an External Collaborator at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain since 2019.
Research Interests: Biometrics (face, iris, periocular, fingerprint analysis), Soft-Biometrics, Mobile Biometrics, Forensic Analysis, Privacy and Security, with foundational expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Signal/Image Processing, Computer Vision. His work spans EU projects like Horizon PopEye (3.2M€) and national grants totaling over 9.4MSEK from the Swedish Research Council and Innovation Agency.
- 2025: Horizon Europe PopEye (3.2M€) - Biometrics on-the-move for border control
- 2022: Swedish Innovation Agency Grant (2.6MSEK) - AI-Powered Crime Scene Analysis
- 2022: Swedish Research Council Grant (3.6MSEK) - Facial Analysis in the Era of Biometric Masks
Awards & Editorial Roles: Distinguished Lecturer (IEEE Biometrics Council 2022-2024), Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Pattern Recognition Letters, and IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter. Co-chaired ICB2016 and EAB-RPC 2024 Round Table on Generative AI.
Education: MSc/PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (2003/2008). Postdoc at Halmstad University with Marie Curie IEF and Swedish Research Council Fellowship (2010-2017).
Publications: Over 140 international papers with h-index 43 (Google Scholar 2025). Recent work explores adversarial attacks in de-identification, CNN pruning for mobile face recognition, and nano-drones for crime scene analysis.
