Functions: 

• Plan of Action for Research Support and other UPF research programmes
• UPF research bodies
• Research programmes and grants (autonomous regional, Spanish and European)
• Recruitment of research staff (the Ramón y Cajal, Juan de la Cierva and ICREA programmes, etc.)
• Research scholarships
• Scientific offer (Scientific Output Portal)
• Research report
• UNESCO Chairs

Curricula :

Born in Manresa in 1968. He is a full professor in the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, where he has been a lecturer since 2008. He graduated in Telecommunications Engineering from the UPC (1992) and holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (1999). Before joining UPF, he was a researcher at Bell Labs (1999-2008) and an adjunct lecturer at Columbia Unive rsity (2005-2008). His research focuses on mobile communications. He is editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and is a member of the Board of Governors of the Communications Society of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) , the world's leading association of professional engineers. He has been a member of standardization committees for mobile systems, holds fifteen patents and has received several prizes, including the ICREA Academy award (2011). He has been a visiting professor at Cambridge University, the University of Texas at Austin, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Stanford University and the University of Minnesota.