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	Cardona Marcet, Narcis Director ncardona@www.iteam.upv.es 96 387 95 81 ext. 79581	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Professor bio »
	Prof. Narcís Cardona nació en Barcelona. Obtuvo el título de M.S. en Ingenieria de las Comunicaciones en la ETSI Telecomunicaciones de la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña en 1990 y el Ph.D. en Telecomunicaciones en la Universitat Politècnica de València en 1995. Desde Octubre de 1990 pertenece al Departamento de Comunicaciones de la Universitat Politècnica de València. El profesor Cardona dirige el Grupo de Comunicaciones Móviles del iTeAM con alrededor de 30 investigadores incluyendo profesores e investigadores. Además, es director del Master en Comunicaciones Móviles desde 2006 y Director del instituto de investigación iTeAM desde 2016. Narcis Cardona ha participado y liderado proyectos de investigación, tanto nacionales como europeos, Redes de Excelencia y otros foros de investigación, siempre en temas relacionados con las comunicaciones móviles. A escala europea, ha sido Vice-chairman del COST273 Action, Chair del WG3 del COST2100 en el area de las redes de acceso radio, Chairman del EU Action COST IC1004 y Vice-Chairman de COST IC15104 IRACON desde Marzo de 2016. El profesor Cardona es también miembro del Consejo Directivo del METIS (FP7), y METIS-II (H2020), proyecto de 5GPP sobre las tecnologias de las futuras comunicaciones móviles y de la Red Europea WIBEC en tecnologías médicas inalámbricas. En referencia a su trabajo investigador, Narcis Cardona es autor de 10 patentes, varios libros y más de 200 publicaciones. Sus actuales áreas de interés se centran en la caracterización del canal móvil, herramientas de planificación y optimización de sistemas celulares, técnicas RRM aplicadas a las comunicaciones personales y sistemas inalámbricos en entorno médico.

	Cogollos Borrás, Santiago sancobo@dcom.upv.es 34963879197	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Santiago Cogollos was born in Valencia, Spain, on January 15, 1972. He received the degree in telecommunication engineering and the Ph. D. degree from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, in 1996 and 2002, respectively. In 2000 he joined the Communications Department of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where he was an Assistant Lecturer from 2000 to 2001, a Lecturer from 2001 to 2002, and became an Associate Professor in 2002. He has collaborated with the European Space Research and Technology Centre of the European Space Agency in the development of modal analysis tools for payload systems in satellites. In 2003, Dr. Santiago Cogollos received from the Spanish Association of Telecommunication Engineers the prize to the best doctoral thesis on the topic “Fundamentals and Basic Technologies of Information and Communications and their Applications”. In the same year he was awarded from the Polytechnic University of Valencia with the special prize for his doctoral thesis “Modal Characterisation of Arbitrary Waveguides and Application to Microwave Devices”. In 2005, Dr. Santiago Cogollos held a post doctoral research position working in the area of advanced synthesis techniques in microwave filter design and collaborated in teaching activities related with satellite communication systems at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada). His current research interests include applied electromagnetics, mathematical methods for electromagnetic theory, analytical and numerical methods for the analysis of waveguide structures, and design of passive components for space applications.

	de Diego Antón, María mdediego@www.iteam.upv.es +34 96 3879763	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Maria de Diego received the M.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering and the Ph.D degree from the Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain, in 1994 and 2003, respectively. She is currently working as an Associate Professor in digital signal processing and communications and a Researcher with the GTAC Group, Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications, Universitat Politècnica de València. She has been involved in over 25 research projects financed by public funds, and she has led several of them. Her Ph.D research was mainly on adaptive equalization algorithms with applications to multifrequency noise control in enclosed spaces. Her postdoctoral research involved the development of signal processing algorithms for sound applications. She has also published some works on the topic of signal processing for communications. She is author of more than 28 journal papers listed in the Journal Citation Reports, and around 48 conference papers. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV), having been elected to the board of directors during the period 2015 to 2019. Moreover, Dr. de Diego currently serves as Associate editor in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language. Her research interests have involved the following areas: active noise control and equalization systems, distributed sound processing, non-linear adaptive filtering, audio applications over wireless acoustic networks and finally sound quality and psychoacoustics. Her scientific objectives in a short term are focused on the development of intelligent sound applications in real-life scenes for in-door and out-door environments.

	Esteban González, Héctor hesteban@dcom.upv.es 34963877758	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Professor bio »
	Héctor Esteban González se graduó como Ingeniero de Telecomunicación en 1996 y como Doctor Ingeniero de Telecomunicación en 2002 por la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. En 1996 realizó una estancia en el Joint Research Centre de la Comisión Europea, en Ispra, Italia, donde trabajó en la caracterización electromagnética de cubiertas vegetales. En 1997 inció sus estudios de doctorado en el European Topic Center on Soil de la Agencia Europea de Medio Ambiente en el desarrollo de una base de datos georeferenciada de riesgos de desertificación. En 1998 volvió a la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia como profesor Asociado, y actualmente es profesor Titular de Universidad, y está acreditado al cuerpo de Catedráticos de Universidad. Director del Departamento de Comunicaciones y Director del Máster Universitario en Tecnologías, Sistemas y Redes de Comunicaciones. Su principal línea de investigación es el desarrollo de métodos de análisis y diseño de antenas y dispositivos pasivos de comunicaciones de alta frecuencia, aunque también ha trabajado en la caracterización electromagnética de materiales dieléctricos y magnéticos, y la aceleración de métodos de análisis electromagnéticos mediante wavelets y el método rápido de los multipolos (FMM).

	Ferrando Bataller, Miguel mferrand@dcom.upv.es 963 877 764	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Professor bio »
	Miguel Ferrando Bataller nació en Alcoy (Alicante) en 1954. Es Ingeniero de Telecomunicación (Barcelona 1977) y Doctor Ingeniero de Telecomunicaciones por la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, (Barcelona 1982). Desde 1977 a 1982 fue profesor Ayudante, Encargado de curso y Titular en el grupo de Antenas, Microondas y Radar, en la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña. En 1990 empezó su etapa en la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia donde fué director de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Vicerrector de Ordenación Académica y Profesorado y Director del Centro de Formación Permanente. Imparte docencia en Antenas, Comunicaciones por Satélite y Electromagnetismo Avanzado. Ha dirigido 15 Tesis doctorales. Su investigación actual gira entorno a métodos numéricos, diseño de antenas y actividades de tele-educación y e-learning.

	Ferrando-Rocher, Miguel Vice-Director for Communication and Transfer miguel.ferrando@upv.es	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Miguel Ferrando-Rocher (Senior Member, IEEE) es Profesor Titular en la Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) y Vice-Director de Comunicación y Transferencia del iTEAM Research Institute. Lidera su investigación en el Antennas and Propagation Lab (APL), donde desarrolla soluciones avanzadas en tecnologías de antena y propagación para entornos críticos y de alto impacto social. Es Doctor en Ingeniería de Telecomunicaciones por la UPV, donde también cursó su licenciatura, con una estancia en la Universidad de Gante (Bégica). En 2012 se incorporó al Institut d’Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique (IETR) en INSA Rennes (Francia), colaborando con Thales Alenia Space en el desarrollo de antenas reflectarray para satélites de comunicaciones. En 2016 fue investigador invitado en Chalmers University of Technology (Suecia), especializándose en sistemas de propagación a frecuencias milimétricas. Entre 2019 y 2022 fue Profesor Ayudante Doctor en la Universidad de Alicante, donde continúa colaborando con el grupo GMECA. Sus líneas de investigación incluyen SATCOM on-the-move, phased arrays, antenas para sistemas ADS-B y plataformas HAPS, así como tecnología Gap Waveguide. Es autor de más de 100 publicaciones en revistas de alto impacto y congresos internacionales, y coautor de varias patentes en el campo de los sistemas de propagación milimétrica. Sus diseños han sido implementados en entornos reales, incluyendo sistemas aeroespaciales y plataformas de vigilancia. Ha recibido distinciones como el Premio AIRBUS Defence and Space (2019), el Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado de la UPV (2018) y el Premio al Mejor Joven Investigador en la Conferencia URSI España (2017). Desde 2022 es Embajador del programa Young Professionals de la Sociedad de Antenas y Propagación (IEEE AP-S) y, desde 2024, preside la Red de Consultores de IEEE España. Comprometido con la proyección pública de la ciencia y su vínculo con el pensamiento crítico y la cultura, Ferrando-Rocher también está formado en Dirección Escénica y Dramaturgia por la Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Valencia, y es fundador de la compañía Groc Teatre. Sus obras, basadas en hechos reales, abordan temas como la violencia institucional, la memoria histórica y la fragilidad de los relatos oficiales. Su pieza Genovese fue galardonada con el Premio Max del Público en 2019.

	Ferrer Contreras, Miguel mferrer@dcom.upv.es +34 96 3877000(Ext.:88272)	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Miguel Ferrer Contreras graduated in Telecommunications Engineering in the year 2000 at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain. He was collaborating with the Audio and Communications Signal Processing Group (GTAC) since a year before, performing a six months research stay in the Instituto de Investigación Aplicada al Automóvil, Tarragona, Spain (Automobile Applied Research Institute). Subsequently, he was awarded several grants offered both by the Communications Department of the UPV and by the Research, Development and Innovation Vice-Chancellery of the same university, enabling him to start his Doctorate studies and to collaborate in different research projects within the GTAC. During this period he has authored or co-authored over twenty papers related with signal processing in renowned journals and conferences. Since 2005 he works as an assistant lecturer in the Communications Department of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). His research activity is focused on the study of adaptive algorithms and its application to audio digital processing and noise active control, a subject about which he is developing his doctoral thesis.

	García Miquel, Angel Héctor hgmiquel@upvnet.upv.es	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor


	Gasulla Mestre, Ivana ivgames@www.iteam.upv.es -	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Ivana Gasulla is an Associate Professor, (previously, Distinguished Researcher and Ramon y Cajal Fellow) at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). Winner in 2025 of the 5th Young Female Scientific Talent Award from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain and Mastercard, in the category of Science Applications to Technology. Her current research interests in the area of Photonics encompass the development of new specialty optical fibers, such us multicore optical fibers. In 2017, she was awarded a prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council. Ivana Gasulla received the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees from UPV, respectively, in 2005 and 2008. Her PhD thesis was recognized with the IEEE/LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship Award. In 2012 she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to carry out postdoctoral research at Stanford University. The results of her work have led to more than 155 international publications, highlighting contributions to Nature Communications and Nature Photonics. She is/has been a member of the Technical Program Committee of the most prestigious conferences in the field, such as European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) and Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC). Currently, she is the Director of the Internationalization Area at UPV. Previously, she served as the Deputy Director of Dissemination and Promotion, as well as the Deputy Director of Economics at the iTEAM Research Institute. Complete list of publications in: Google Scholar.

	Gomez-Barquero, David Vice-Director for Research and Innovation dagobar@www.iteam.upv.es	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	David Gomez-Barquero is an Associate Professor at the Communications Department of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain, where he leads a research group at the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) working on next generation wireless communication technologies, including broadcasting. He received with First Class Honors distinction a double M.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering from the UPV and the University of Gävle, Sweden, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the UPV 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, Germany. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded by the Spanish College of Telecommunications Engineering, and in 2010 he was awarded with the best young researcher prize of Valencia. He carried out a 2-year post-doc at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Germany. He also held visiting research appointments at the Sergio Arboleda University, Colombia, as Visiting Professor, the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA, as a Research Scholar, and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea, as a Guest Researcher. Prof. Gomez-Barquero has been actively participating during the last decade in the standardization of wireless broadcasting technologies. He participated in the validation of the second generation digital terrestrial TV technology DVB-T2, and in the standardization processes of its mobile profile T2-Lite and its handheld evolution DVB-NGH. He also contributed to the DVB-T2 implementation guidelines, and co-edited the DVB implementation guidelines on upper layer forward error correction. He participated in the standardization process of the next-generation broadcast TV standard ATSC 3.0, acting as Vice-Chairman of the Modulation and Coding ad-hoc group. Currently, his research is focused on 5G, and is the project coordinator of three European H2020 projects: 5G-RECORDS on 5G content production (www.5g-records.eu), FUDGE-5G on cloud-native private 5G networks (www.fudge-5g.eu) and iNGENIOUS on next-generation 5G-based IoT (www.ingenious-iot.eu). Previously he coordinated the H2020 5G-Xcast project that developed broadcast and multicast technology components for 5G (www.5g-xcast.eu). He led the first live television content production using exclusively 5G (standalone network) with Orange, ZTE and the Spanish Public Broadcaster RTVE during the EUCNC 2019 conference. Dr. Gomez-Barquero has published over 200 scientific papers (H-index 30, over 3.000 citations), holds 4 international patents, and has participated in many technical program committees of international conferences. He is the editor of the book “Next Generation Mobile Broadcasting” from CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group), an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. He was the General Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB) 2018, and has participated in the organization of the international conferences IEEE ISWCS 2006, IEEE PIMRC 2016 and EUCNC 2019. He is also a Distinguished Lecturer and member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS), and a a member of the 5G-PPP steering board (https://5g-ppp.eu/).

	González Salvador, Alberto agonzal@dcom.upv.es +34 96 3877304	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Professor bio »
	Alberto González Salvador works as Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. He attended the Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain, where he graduated in 1991 in Telecommunications Engineering with highest honours. In 1997 he was awarded a Doctorate (PhD), magna cum laude, from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. During 1995 he worked as a visiting researcher in the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Currently, he is the head of the research group in Audio and Multimedia Digital Signal Processing. Alberto González has published over 100 papers in international technical journals and renowned conferences in the fields of signal processing and applied acoustics. As well as this, he has leaded twelve research projects and has collaborated in twenty more. He is a member of the senate of the Universitat Politècnica de València and serves as Dean of the Telecommunications Engineering School since June 2012, having previously been head of the Communications Department and assistant director of research since 1997. His current research interests include multichannel signal processing for communications and three-dimensional sound reproduction.

	Gosalbez Castillo, Jorge jorgocas@dcom.upv.es +34 96 3879196	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Dr. J. Gosálbez was born in Valencia (Spain) in 1975. He received Telecomunications Engineering and PhD degrees from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) in 2000 and 2004 respectively. He is Associate Professor at Departamento de Comunicaciones (UPV) and member of the Signal Processing Group of the Institute of Telecommunication and Multimedia Applications (I-TEAM) of UPV. His research concentrates in the statistical signal processing area, where he has worked in different theoretical an applied problems. His theoretical aspects of interest are time-frequency analysis, signal detection and array processing. Currently he is involved in ultrasound signal processing for non-destructive evaluation of materials, in surveillance systems based on acoustic information and in acoustic source location and tracking based on sensor and array signal processing. He has published more than 50 papers including journals and conference contributions.