“I don’t keep count,” says this technical engineer in Topography from the University of Oviedo and Engineer in Geodesy and Cartography from the University of Salamanca (USAL) campus in Ávila, naturally. After obtaining both degrees, he was awarded the National Final Year Awards, for obtaining the highest grade in his academic record. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at USAL and a member of the TIDOP research group (Information Technologies for 3D Digitalisation of Complex Objects), from the same academic institution. Linked to USAL as a fellow during his predoctoral stage, in 2011 he obtained his doctorate with the thesis entitled ‘Automation in the processing of data acquired by 3D laser scanner’, recognised with the extraordinary doctorate award. Since then, he has been invited by various national and international centres to carry out research stays. Among them, the postdoctoral stay at the FBK Institute (Bruno Kessler Foundation) in Trento (Italy) stands out, where he had the opportunity to participate in the European VAT project for the valorisation of heritage elements from the First World War. Co-author of thirty articles in international journals, Rodríguez González has participated in twenty conferences abroad and in fifteen competitive research projects. He is now immersed in a line of research for the development of a methodology for the “hybridisation of images from visible and thermographic cameras”. This method will allow the automatic generation of 3D thermographic models, facilitating “thermographic interpretation and the diagnosis of faults and thermal bridges”. He also participates in the European CHT2 project (Cultural Heritage Through Time), in which institutions from England, Italy and Poland participate. This young Asturian researcher came to Ávila with the intention of continuing his training to link his training to the field of teaching. He had previously completed his basic studies in Mieres, where he also obtained the title of technical engineer in Topography at the University of Oviedo Campus in his hometown. Although it would have been logical for him to have become a technical mining engineer, he finally opted for Geodesy and Cartography. “It called me,” he admits, after remembering that, given his family background, his training could have been linked to mining, since he comes from a mining family: “My brother, my father, my grandfather, my great-grandfather…” All of them are or were miners, but he was “always” drawn to “cartography” and teaching, although he later discovered the world of research to which he is ‘hooked’. In the university environment he carries out an intense technological transfer as the inventor of eight patents in the fields of Forensic, Photogrammetric and Industrial Engineering. The most prestigious institution in the field of geomatics, photogrammetry and remote sensing (ISPRS) awarded him a prize for developing educational photogrammetric software in 2012. A work that has continued with the support of ISPRS, as well as with the collaboration of the University of Bologna and the FBK, crystallizing in the GRAPHOS software, the result of which will be presented at the Prague congress. The aim is to “help users reconstruct 3D objects from photographs in a simple and intuitive way.” In the future, his intention is to continue his teaching career, if possible in Spain and more specifically in Ávila, to contribute to “strengthening” the USAL campus in the capital.
