Jesús López-Fidalgo is a Full professor at the University of Navarre in Pamplona, Spain, where he is the Director of the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and the Master in Big Data Science. An Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, he was the President of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal TEST. In addition, he was co-founder of the National Biostatistics Network, the Dean of the Industrial Engineering School at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, and he managed the National Plan for Mathematics within the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. He has published more than 100 papers in academic journals and has written several books, including "El azar no existe" (Randomness Does not Exist). His research interests include optimal experimental design, statistical modelling and data science. He also devotes his time to statistical consulting in different areas, including engineering, medicine, pharmacokinetics, biology and genomics, and to the popularization of science and statistics in particular.