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Hector Geffner got his Ph.D at UCLA with a dissertation that was co-winner of the 1990 ACM Dissertation Award. He then worked as Staff Research Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in NY, USA and at the Universidad Simon Bolivar, in Caracas, Venezuela. Since 2001, he is a researcher at ICREA and a professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He is a former Associate Editor of Artificial Intelligence and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. He is also a member of the EurAI board, a Fellow of AAAI and EurAI, and author of the book Default Reasoning: Causal and Conditional Theories'', MIT Press, 1992, editor of "Heuristics, Probability, and Causality: a Tribute to Judea Pearl" along with R. Dechter and Joe Halpern, College Publications, 2010, and author with Blai Bonet of "A Concise Introduction to Models and Methods for Automated Planning", Morgan and Claypool, 2013.