Albert Guillén i Fàbregas is an ICREA Research Professor at our Department and an Adjunct Researcher at the University of Cambridge. He received the Telecommunication Engineering Degree and the Electronics Engineering Degree from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Politecnico di Torino, respectively in 1999, and the Ph.D. in Communication Systems from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2004. He has held appointments at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Telecom Italia, European Space Agency, Institut Eurécom, University of South Australia and the University of Cambridge. He is a recipient of a Starting Grant of the European Research Council. He is a member of the Young Academy of Europe, Senior Member of the IEEE, Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory and previously of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He is a General co-Chair of the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Barcelona, July 2016. He has published more than 120 articles, including 1 patent, 1 book, 2 book chapters, 37 journal articles, 9 invited and 74 refereed conference articles.