Javier Martinez Alcantara
Software Engineer in Tübingen, Germany
Javier Martinez Alcantara
Software Engineer in Tübingen, Germany
I live for wondering and for trying to give answer to the questions I meet. The knowledge and enlightment is not a luxury or accesory topic, I consider it as the only possible way to make one really free.
I was born in the plains of Spain, a region called Extremadura. These plains where full of trees and grass, full of pigs, storks, sheeps, mushrooms, fresh air and ruined castles and palaces. My first home defined my first steps in wondering, from the relationship with my grandparents, the games with my brothers and the love and worries of my parents I grew up.
At my time at the high school was when I started to appreciate the interesting ways of science. Maths, physics and biology were really hard but were my beloved ones. The way how one can describe the world and the natural processes together with the new technologies was my dream at that time.
But I wanted to focus on more applied topics. That is how I decided to go to Valladolid to start my master in electronic (telecomunications) engineering. The beginin was hard and I was too eager to experiment with my recent adquiered freedom. During that time I faced the problem of learning from a wrong perspective...and It took me some years to realize of that error. I knew a lot of different people and I learnt to deal with them. With time I was aware of the importance of getting a strong academic background and that is how I change and focused again in learnig and my research career. I am really proud specially of my last years, getting really involved in the studied topics and getting the oportunity of writting my thesis in Germany.
4 years in Germany brought me a lot of opportunities. I started working for Daimler (Telemotive AG) and I also quit my job to start a new master coming back to the research field. Tübingen is the town where I am currently studing a Master in Neural Information Processing. It is really awesome!! So much to do!! So many unknown concepts and fields....I feel again like in the high school, same energy!!
This energy is specially strong in me and I try to drive it to keep a balance between body and mind. I need, I enjoy so much, sports and the feeling of how the body learns. I like to feel the small changes in my body and to teach it to perform more accurate movements. I have found an great balance in Aikido, but also climbing, surfing and with archery.