Management Team

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.

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.

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/).

Ivana Gasulla is an Associate Professor, (previously, Distinguished Researcher and Ramon y Cajal Fellow) at the ITEAM Research Institute of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). In 2016, she was awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant to develop new Space-Division Multiplexing technologies for emergent fiber-wireless communications through the project InnoSpace. Ivana Gasulla received the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees from UPV, respectively, in 2005 and 2008. Her PhD thesis, focused on broadband radio over multimode fiber transmission, was recognized with the IEEE/LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship Award. In 2012 she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to carry out research on spatial division multiplexing at Stanford University. Back to ITEAM in 2014, her current research interests encompass the application of multimode and multicore fibers to Microwave Photonics systems. The results of her work have led to more than 145 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). Complete list of publications in: Google Scholar.

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.