José E. Chacón has been a Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Extremadura since 2022. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of Valladolid from 2003 to 2005, and then held various other positions at the University of Extremadura.
His research focuses on nonparametric statistics, particularly on kernel smoothing methods for density and density derivative estimation, and their applications to nonparametric density-based clustering.