Bio

Dr. David Gomez-Barquero received a double M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, and the University of Gavle, Sweden, in 2004; and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from UPVLC in 2009. During his doctoral studies, he was a guest researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, the University of Turku, Finland, and the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. He also did an internship at Ericsson Eurolab, Aachen, Germany. During 2010 and 2011, he was a postdoc guest researcher at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) in Berlin, Germany. Dr. Gómez-Barquero is a senior researcher at iTEAM-UPVLC, where he leads a research group working on multimedia broadcasting in general, and in particular in the optimization of DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) and 3GPP MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services) systems. He co-edited the DVB bluebook on upper layer forward error correction as an invited expert, participated in the standardization process of the next generation mobile broadcasting standard DVB-NGH, and the mobile profile of the second generation digital terrestrial TV system DVB-T2, known as T2-Lite, and also and contributed to the DVB-T2 implementation guidelines.