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	Pastor Abellán, Daniel dpastor@dcom.upv.es +34 96 3877304	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Professor bio »
	My research career at photonics technologies started at 1993 when joined the Optical Communication Group as researcher and the Communication Department at Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) as lecturer and PhD student. From 1994 to 1998 I was a lecturer at the Telecommunications Engineering Faculty and I became an Associate Professor in 1999. I obtained a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications by the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain in 1996. The topic of my Thesis was “Redes de Difracción sobre Fibra Óptica para Procesado de Señales Fotónicas”. I am co-author of more than 225 papers in journals and international conferences in the fields of Optical Delay Line Filters, Fiber Bragg Gratings, Microwave Photonics, WDM and SCM lightwave systems, Optical Fiber Sensors, Silicon Nitride integrated devices for telecom and sensing, and advanced characterization techniques as Optical Frequency Domain Reflectrometry. I have been leader/co researcher (IP) of 3 national projects, related with Metro and Access optical Networks (TEL1999-0437 from 31/12/99 to 31/12/02), and Optical Code Division Multiple Access networks and devices (OCDMA), (TEC2004-04754-01/TCM from 13/12/04 to 13/12/07 and TEC2009-12169 from 01/01/2010 to 31/6/2013), and co-IP in 3 national projects related with Photonic Integrated Technology, Photonic Integrated Filters for Enhanced Signal Processing (TEC2013-42332-P), Silicon Nitride integrated Spectrometers (TEC2016-80385-P) and Plataforma Hibrida Nitruro de Silicio para Circuitos Ópticos Integrados (PID2019-110877GB-I00). I have been leader also of different work packages in european projects as IST-LABELS (Ligthwave Architectures for the processing of Broadband Electronics Signals), or IST-GLAMOROUS (Glass-based modulators, Routers and Switches). In the last two years I have participated in a research and development contract with Huawei Tech. Ltc, and an European project MSCA-ITN-2018-ETN/Nº 812818. Of special mention is the activity in the development of a technology platform at the UPV with capabilities to manufacture passive optical substrates and components based on Silicon Nitride / Silica with the following infrastructure financing: Polo tecnológico UPVfab. GVA/IDIFEDER/2020/028 (2020-2021), MICRO-FABRICACIÓN PARA FOTÓNICA, ELECTRÓNICA Y QUÍMICA” Generalitat Valenciana (2018-2020) GVA/IDIFEDER18/41

	Pérez Pascual, Mª Asunción asperez@eln.upv.es 34 96 284 93 00 ext. 49405	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Asun Pérez-Pascual received her telecommunication engineering and PhD. (telecommunication engineering) degrees from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, in 1997 and 2002, respectively. She has been an associate professor in the Department of Electronics at Universidad Politecnica de Valencia since 2002. Her current research interests include the design of FPGA-based systems, computer arithmetic, VLSI signal processing, and digital communications.

	Piñero Sipán, Gema gpinyero@www.iteam.upv.es 96 387 97 61	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Professor bio »
	Gema Piñero (Ms. Telecommunications Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ‘90; Ph.D. Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia ’97) was born in Madrid (Spain) in 1965. She is currently a Professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Since 1992 she has worked in private and public-funding projects on different research topics: array signal processing, adaptive algorithms for active noise control, mobile communications and sound quality. She is part of the Audio and Communications Signal Processing (GTAC) group of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) of Valencia. She has published more than 80 contributions in relevant journals and conferences on the area. Her current research focuses on neural networks for acoustics, personal sound zones and acoustic networks. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2011) and the Imperial College London (2016). She is a senior member of the IEEE and founding member of the Spanish Association for Research and Teaching UNIVERSITAS. See my ORCID profile

	Ramos Peinado, German gramosp@www.iteam.upv.es	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor


	Reig Pascual, Juan jreigp@dcom.upv.es	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Professor


	Rodrigo Peñarrocha, Vicent Miquel vrodrigo@dcom.upv.es +34 963879301	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Vicent Miquel Rodrigo Peñarrochawas born in Valencia, Spain, on September 29, 1966. He received the Ingeniero de Telecomunicación degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain, in 1990, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia in 2003. He joined the Departamento de Comunicaciones at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in 1991 as a Lecturer. His current interests include antenna measurement, real and virtual instrumentation, radiowave propagation, and any educational activity.

	Rubio Arjona, Lorenzo lrubio@dcom.upv.es	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Lorenzo Rubio Arjona was born in El Ballestero, Albacete, Spain, in 1971. He received the M.S. and the Ph.D degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, in 1996 and 2004, respectively. In 1996, he joined the Communications Department of the Universitat Politècnica de València, where he is now Associate Professor of wireless communications. His main research interests are related to wireless communications. Specific current research topics include radiowave propagation, measurement and mobile time-varying channels modelling in vehicular applications, ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems and equalization techniques in digital wireless systems.Dr. Rubio was awarded by the Ericsson Mobile Communications Prize from the Spanish Telecommunications Engineer Association for his study on urban statistical radiochannels characterisation applied to wireless communications.

	Sales Maicas, Salvador ssales@dcom.upv.es 34963879735	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Professor bio »
	I have been working in the area of photonics, fiber sensors and optical communications for more than 25 years, since 1993. I am a researcher at the Photonics Research Labs of the iTEAM Research Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and I am in charge of the fibre devices and fibre sensor research line. I have been: the Vice-Dean of the Escuela Politécnica Superior de Gandía, Campus Gandía, Universitat Politécnica de València, (1997-98), Deputy Director of the Departamento de Comunicaciones, Universitat Politècnica de València, (2004-08), and the Coordinator of the Postgrado studies in Telecommunications (2004-2011) which is one the programs with the higher indexes of quality and number of students in the Universitat Politècnica de València. My main research lines have been: Microwave Photonics, Photonic Components, Slow Light Devices, Fibre Sensors and Optical networks. I have over 140 publications listed in the SCI-JCR (Nature Group, IEEE, OSA, IEE, APS), and over 180 International Conference publications (ECOC, OFC, OFS, EWOFS, CLEO, etc.), 3 Chapters in international research books as well as 11 Patents. I have taken part in 62 research projects of which in 21 I have been the principal researcher (PR) including 6 funded by the European Union, 2 by the European Space Agency, 4 by the Spanish government, 3 by the Valencian regional government and 6 by private companies. Overall, I have been responsible for the rising of an overall turnover of more than 3 million € in photonic instrumentation and infrastructure for ITEAM-UPV Laboratories in Optical Communications. I would like to highlight that I have published in the most prestigious journals of my research field Nature Photonics (1), Nature Communications (1), Scientific Reports (2). I have realized three research stays at very high-quality research centres: Optoelectronics Research Center (Southampton, UK), Imec-Ghent University (Belgium) and DTU Fotonik (Denmark). The current number of citations for my publications is 5826, which leads to an h-index of 36, (Source: Google Scholar). Since 2015 the number of citations for my publications is 3256, which leads to an h-index of 25 (only taking into account since 2015). The index i10 of my publications is 97 and this index i10, referred only to the last five years is 59. I was co-founder of the spin-off CalSens S.L. It has now three employees who have studied their degrees at the Universitat Politècnica de València. CalSens has signed contracts with ESA (European Space Agency), FGV (Ferrocarriles de la Generalitat Valenciana) y Tecnalia, amongst others. I have been co-author of two patents that have been transferred to CalSens which is paying the royalties to the university every year. I have been attending thesis committees around Europe, member of the technical committees of the most relevant international conferences in my field of expertise and I have collaborating in Commissions of Trust for European, National and Regional scientific programs. . Complete list of publications: Google Scholar

	Sansaloni, Trinidad tmsansal@eln.upv.es 34 96 284 93 00 ext. 43571	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Trini Sansaloni received the Telecommunication Engineer degree from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in 2001. Her dissertation was on FPGA implementation of FFT algorithms. She is an associate professor in the Department of Electronics at Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). Her current research interests include the design of FPGA-based systems and VLSI signal processing.

	Sastre Martínez, Jorge jorsasma@www.iteam.upv.es 0034 96387 9719	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering at the UPV with First class Honors (1997), the Regional Government Award and 2nd National Award. Lecturer at the UPV School of Telecommunication since 1998. Music Diploma by Conservatory Joaquin Rodrigo of Valencia (2000). PhD in Mathematics Cum Laude at UPV (2003). Advanced Studies in Music Composition by the Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) studying Computer Music with Roger Dannenberg and composition. He received prior training in electronic and electroacoustic music and computer music with A. Núñez, G. Jiménez and L. Amigo, in composition with D. Baixauli, M. Sotelo, J.M. Sánchez Verdú and A. Posadas, and music for audiovisuals and jazz. In 2013 he received a scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science for research in music technology at the computer music group led by Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie Mellon University. His main research interests are music technology, video processing and matrix functions and their applications. He has directed 13 research projects and is the author of more than 50 publications in international journals and conferences (http://scholar.google.es/citations?hl=es&user=Gls8MJwAAAAJ). He is the founder and coordinator of the UPV International Post-Graduate Courses in Composition, he is part of the academic committee of the Master of Music from the UPV, where he is responsible for the subject Electronic Technology and Contemporary Music, and he is the founding director of the UPV Graduate Program in Electronic and Electroacoustic Music, Interactivity and Video Creation.

	Soto Pacheco, Pablo pabsopac@dcom.upv.es 34963879195	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Pablo Soto (S'01-M'06) was born in 1975 in Cartagena, Spain. He received the M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree (cum Laude) in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia in 1999 and 2012, respectively. In 2000, he joined the Departamento de Comunicaciones, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, where he is Associate Professor since 2012. He was an EU research fellow with the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC-ESA), Noordwijk, the Netherlands in 2000. His research interests comprise numerical methods for the analysis, synthesis, and fully automated design of passive components in waveguide and planar technologies, the development and design of novel hardware for satellite applications, and high-power RF effects. Dr. Soto received the 2000 and 2012 COIT/AEIT national awards to the best Master Thesis and best Ph.D Thesis, respectively. He is also the co-recipient of the 2013 Gheorghe Cartianu Award of the Acadamia Romana.

	Torres Carot, Vicente vtorres@eln.upv.es +34 96 3877007	FACULTY & VISITING PROFESSOR Associate Professor bio »
	Vicente Torres Carot works as an Associate Professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain. He graduated as a Telecommunications Engineer at the UPV in 1994 and in 2001 he was awarded with the Doctor of Engineering (phD) degree, from the same University. He is currently a member of the Institute for Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM), an investigation corporation integrated in the UPV. His research work is focused on digital signal processing in electronic devices. This Associate Professor has contributed to more than 50 papers in renowned technical journals and conferences. He has been an active member of more than ten financially-aided research projects.