Miquel Oliver

Miquel Oliver is Full Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He received his Ph.D. from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 1999, a Degree in Business Administration (UOC, 2009) and GloColl Executive Education (Harvard, 2011-12). Before joining UPF, he was Associate Professor at the UPC and Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University (US, 1999). He is leading the multidisciplinary Networking and Strategies Research Group (NeTS) since its foundation. He has been Visiting Scientist at the MIT (2013-14) and in Columbia University (2011). His research is on wireless communications, with a multidisciplinary view including regulation, telecom policies and economic impact. Prof. Oliver has authored over 120 technical papers (Google-schoolar), over 40 counted in ISI WoK Journals, 37,9% in Top 10% Journals Percentiles according to SCOPUS, as well as edited three books, holds three patents, supervised thirteen Ph.D. thesis and confounded and advised one spinoff company. Four of his papers have received the best paper award in international conferences. He is active member of the panEuropean EUNICE network, created to foster the mobility in the field of ICT to promote research cooperation between its member institutions.

Dr. Oliver has lead the design and deployment of the Telecommunication Engineering Degree at the UPF, as well as the Master in ICT Strategic Management. He received two Jaume Vicens Vives distinctions (2004 and 2005) from the Generalitat de Catalunya to the Quality at Teaching. Miquel Oliver is currently the director of the Telefonica's Chair devoted to study the impact of MOOCs. In this area he has been pushing the UCATx MOOCs initiative from the Catalan Government to orchestrate a joint offer from 12 Catalan universities.

He has been involved in the government of the UPF since its arrival in 2001. First as Vice-Director of the Telecommunication Engineering School until 2004 when he became Director. Then, after a period serving the DTIC as Vice-Director, he was engaged with the UPF government as Vice-Rector for Institutional Strategy and Quality (2008-13 and 2015-16). Thus, the commitment with both the DTIC and the UPF has been intense and combined always with continuous research and teaching activities.

M. Oliver has three six-year research evaluation tracks, plus one six-year tech transfer track, and five five-year teaching evaluation track and all possible management tracks according to the Spanish system for university services assessment.