Juan Carlos Pérez Cortés

Juan-Carlos Pérez-Cortés, Ph.D. Researcher in Artificial Intelligence with extensive scientific production in this field. He is a full professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, founder and director of the Perception, Recognition, Learning, and Artificial Intelligence research group. He has served as scientific director of the University Research Institute on Computer Science, where his group has been based since 2004.

Outside his academic field, he has participated in events and spaces related to non-normative relationships since 2010; he was the author of one of the first translations into Spanish of the Relationship Anarchy Manifesto and actively contributes to its dissemination in different spaces of debate.

He is co-founder of the Association for Affective, Ethical, Non-normative Relationships of València (ARAEN Valencia), which organizes, among other activities, one of the most attended relational activism meetings in Europe, the OpenCon Valencia, which in 2023 will reach its third edition (after the 2020, 21 and 22 editions were canceled due to the pandemic). It has participated in the first Meeting on Relationship Anarchy in Spain, other national and international meetings, and workshops and conferences on relationships and normativity.