Enric Trillas (Barcelona, 1940) is full professor in the Technical University of Madrid, Department of Artifial Intelligence. Formerly, he was full professor at the Technical University of Barcelona. He was president of the Spanish High Council for Scientific Research, director general of the National Institute for Aerospace Technologies, and Secretary General of the Goverment's Committee for Science and Technology.

He graduated and obtained a Ph. D. from the University of Barcelona. He serves on the editorial board of a number of journals. He introduced fuzzy logic into Spain, and can be considered the "scientific father" of many fuzzy logic Spanish researchers. He has published over 200 articles and 5 books.

In addition to his pioneering work in Generalizad Metric Spaces, from 1979 he has made contributions in Fuzzy Logic, with the study of fuzzy connectives, introducing t-norms, t-conorms, negations, etc.. and he has made contributions in approximate reasoning, with the study of implications and inference. In the last time he is doing researches on conjectural reasoning in the framework of ortholattices and standard theories of fuzzy sets, as well as in the revision of the grounds of fuzzy logic. Fellow of IFSA, in 1999 was awarded with the "European Pioneer Award" by the European Society of Fuzzy Logic and Technologies, and in 2005 awared with the "Fuzzy Systems Pioneer" by IEEE-CIS.