Emeritus professor of statistics and operations research at the University of Alicante. He earned his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Valencia in 1979. His research spans geometry, optimization, and convex analysis. He has published over 150 papers and several monographs and textbooks. Goberna has also written on mathematics, politics, and education, and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal TOP from 2013 to 2016.