Oscar Altuzarra received his MSc Mechanical Engineering degree from the Faculty of Engineering of Bilbao, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Spain, in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the same University in 1999. He also attended a course in Mechanical Engineering at Coventry University, Coventry, UK in 1992.

Since 1996, he has been a lecturer and then Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of Bilbao, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU). His research interests are kinematics and singularities in parallel kinematic machines, robotics, and computational applications to complex mechanical problems.