Abraham Duarte was born in Hervás (Cáceres, Spain) on October 24, 1975. He received his M.S. degree in Physics Sciences (Electronic Speciality) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2004 from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC). He was Previously working at the Electronic Instrumentation and Sensors Group in the Faculty of Physics Sciences at UCM and at the Actuators and Microsistems Group in the IAI-CSIC, in both as research grant holder.

He is Associate Professor (Prof. Titular de Universidad) at the Computer Science Department (Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación) where is a member of the GAVAB research group. He is reviewer of several journals and belongs to the program committee of several conferences. He is member of HEUR and EU/ME metaheuristic networks. He has published more than 20 papers in international journals and conferences and has participated in several research projects.

His main research interests focus on the interface among Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research. Most of his publications deal with the development of metaheuristics procedures for optimization problems.