Executive Team

Eva Antonino-Daviu was born in Valencia (Spain) in 1978. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain, in 2002 and 2008, respectively. In 2005, she joined the Communications Department at Universitat Politècnica de València as Assistant Professor, and in 2021 she became Full Professor at this University. In 2005 she joined the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM), where served as Vice-Director of Research between 2016 and 2019. In 2019, she became Secretary of iTEAM. In 2005 she stayed as a guest researcher at the Department of Antennas & EM Modelling of IMST (Kamp-Lintfort, Germany), at the Laboratory of Electronics, Antennas and Telecommunications (LEAT) of the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis (France) in 2018, and at the ATHENA Group of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA, USA) in 2019, where she was working on the use of additive manufacturing techniques for antenna design. Her current research interests include characteristic modes, small antennas, wideband and multi-band antenna design, additive manufacturing techniques and antenna design for MIMO, IoT and mm-wave applications. Eva Antonino-Daviu has published more than 200 papers in renowned journals and conferences in the field of antennas and propagation, as well as 2 book chapters. Moreover, she has participated and led several national and international projects with both public and private funding. Eva Antonino-Daviu is a member of the IEEE Society and a EurAAP delegate. She is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, and IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. She is also regular reviewer for IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics and IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, and since 2005 she has participated very actively in the courses of the European School of Antennas (ESoA). Between 2018 and 2021, she lead the EurAAP working group on Small Antennas (http://small-antennas.eu/), with more than 30 European institutions involved. Eva Antonino was the recipient of 2019 IEEE AP-S Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Achievement Award, for her contribution to the systematic design of antenna systems for practical applications using characteristic modes and promoting access of women to engineering.

Pau Arce received his Telecommunications Engineering degree and the M.S. in Telematics from the Universidat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain, in 2005 and 2007 respectively. In 2014 he obtained his PhD in Telecommunications from the UPV. Currently he is assistant professor and works as a researcher at the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM). His research interests include multimedia QoS, routing on wireless ad hoc networks and performance evaluation of computer systems.

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/).

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.

José Mora was born in Torrent, Valencia, Spain, in 1976. He received the M.Sc. degree in Physical Sciences from the Universitat de València (Spain) in 1999. From 1999 to 2004, he worked in the Department on Applied Physics from the Universitat de València. He holds on a PhD. Degree in Physics from the Universitat de València in 2005 and he received the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize of the Universitat de València in 2006. Since 2004, he joined as a researcher at the Optical and Quantum Communications Group in the Institute of Telecomunications and Multimedia (ITEAM) from the Universitat Politècnica de València. He has been involved in the EU funded projects IST-LABELS, IST-GLAMOROUS, IST-OFFSOHO, IST-NEFERTITI and ICT-ALPHA. With an H-factor of 15, he has published more than 100 papers and conference contributions covering a wide range of fields related to fibre bragg gratings for sensing applications, optical signal processing, microwave photonics, reconfigurable and convergent optical for wired/wireless services and quantum cryptography using photonic technology.