Roberto Barra-Chicote received the M.S.E.E. degree (with highest distinction) from the Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 2005. In 2006, he was a Visitor Researcher with the Center for Spoken Language Research (CSLR), Colorado University. In 2008, he was a Visitor Researcher with the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), Edinburgh University. He has research interests in emotional speech synthesis, speaker diarization and emotional speech recognition, with around 30 refereed publications in these areas. He is a reviewer of several journals. He is an Assistant Professor at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.