Fitxa persona

Sandra Roger received the degree in Telecommunications Engineering in 2007, a Master's degree in Telecommunication Technologies, Systems and Communication Networks in 2008 and a PhD in Telecommunications in 2012, all of them from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain. Her Master's thesis was awarded by the Telefonica Chair of the UPV and her Ph.D. dissertation received the second prize of the Algemesi Best Thesis Award. Between 2008 and 2012 she was a PhD grant holder of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the Young Faculty Training program FPU. In 2009 and 2010, she was a guest researcher at the Institute of Telecommunications of the Vienna University of Technology (Vienna, Austria), where she worked on several topics related to MIMO wireless communications. From 2012 to 2018, as Senior Researcher at the Mobile Communications group of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM-UPV), she was been involved in high relevance EU projects as METIS (Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for the Twenty-twenty Information Society) and METIS-II, and research contracts with the companies Nokia Bell-Labs (Stuttgart) and Huawei GRC (Munich). In 2016, her research group was awarded a Merit Medal to young researchers by the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering. Between 2019 and 2023 she was a Ramon y Cajal Postdoctoral Fellow at the Computer Science Department of the Universitat de València, where she is currently Associate Professor. Her main research interests are in the field of MIMO wireless systems, 5G/6G and vehicular communications.