Bio

Mariano Baquero-Escudero (S’87-M’90) was born in Murcia, Spain, on January 11, 1962. He received the degree in telecommunications engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1986 and the Ph.D. degree from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain, in 1994. He became a Member (M) of IEEE in 1987. He was with the Antennas, Microwave and Radar Group, UPC, from 1986 to 1988, where he worked on the development of a cylindrical near-field facility to measure a 3-D radar antenna in CESELSA. Since 1989, he has been with the UPV where he became a Full Professor in 2003. During 1995, he held a postdoctoral grant at the Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy, where he developed high-resolution algorithms for radar applications. From April 1996 to February 1998, he was a Vice-Dean of the Telecommunications Engineering School of Valencia. He is currently with the Communications Department and into the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Application of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. His main research interests include microwave circuit and antenna analysis, design and measurement.