José I. Zapata is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Research School of Engineering at the Australian National University (ANU). He obtained the Engineer degree in electronic engineering from Universidad de Concepción, Chile, in 2004, and worked as a controls and automation engineer in industry from 2004 to 2009. He obtained his PhD from the Australian National University, where he researched the modelling and control of direct steam generation in point focusing concentrators. José's interests include modelling, simulation and control of industrial processes with an emphasis in thermal and thermochemical processes driven by solar energy.