Oscar Tomico Plasencia is head of the Design Engineering Bachelor program at ELISAVA Design and Engineering school, Assistant Professor in the Designing Quality in Interaction Research Group, working in the Wearable Senses Lab at Eindhoven University of Technology. Current projects focus on the textile industry and involve stakeholders during the design process to create ultra-personalized smart textile services in the form of soft wearables
or soft interiors.

His PhD is from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain), awarded cum laude in 2007 on subjective experience-gathering techniques based on constructivist psychology. He briefly worked as a consultant for Telefonica R&D (Spain) and has held guest positions at AUT Creative technologies (New Zealand), TaiwanTech (Taiwan), the Swedish School of Textiles (Sweden), the Institute of Advanced Architecture (Spain), University of Tsukuba (Finland) and others. In 2015, he consulted for the functional textiles department at EURECAT (Spain).