Toni Penya-Alba is a PhD student at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) where he works in the Department of Multi-Agent Systems.

In 2009 he obtains his degree in Computer Science by the Autonomous University of Barcelona. During his university years he keeps a job as software developer at Festina (an international watchmaking company). After finishing his university studies, he accepts the position of IT Manager for the Asian branch of Festina with central offices in Hong Kong.

After an enriching experience in Asia, in 2011, he goes back to Spain to start his scientific career. In 2011 he obtains a M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). In his master thesis, he studies decentralized supply chain formation. His work has been published in the main conferences of artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems.