JAVIER CALPE MARAVILLA (1966-), PhD in Physical Sciences from the University of Valencia. Extraordinary Bachelor's Degree Award. Associate Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering of the University of Valencia as part of the Digital Signal Processing Group (GPDS) in which he developed various projects with public and private funding. He has been director of the Department. Researcher in 40 projects with private companies and 30 projects with public funding, most of them as principal investigator including a European project (SmartSpectra: Smart Multispectral System for Commercial Applications). He is co-author of 27 industrial patents and 14 more under evaluation, 96 articles in scientific publications (some of them among the most cited in their field) and 196 communications to congresses (4 of them awarded as 'best paper award'). He has supervised 9 doctoral theses. One of them, 'Cloud screening algorithm for MERIS and CHRIS multispectral sensors', presented by Luis Gómez Chova, was awarded the IEEE Best European PhD Thesis in the area of Remote Sensing in 2008. His main fields of work are the development of smart sensors, hyperspectral sensors, and the application of digital signal processing in medicine.

He received recognition as 'Teleco Honoris Causa' by the Official College of Telecommunications Engineers of the Valencian Community in 2019.

He has been the promoter of a spin-off and participated in several technology-based companies. Since September 2005 he has been responsible for the Analog Devices Development Center in Valencia, where 270 people work developing R+D activities in integrated circuit design projects and their applications. Since 2025 he is an ADI Fellow.

Máximo Cobos is Full Professor in the area of Signal Theory and Communications at the University of Valencia, where he has been developing his teaching and research activity since 2011. He holds a PhD in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València (2009), where he received the highest distinction, Cum Laude with International Mention, after completing his degrees in Telecommunication Engineering (2006) and Technical Engineering in Telecommunications at the University of Alicante (2003), both awarded with Honours. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Technologies, Systems and Networks of Telecommunications and a University Specialist Diploma in Business Management, both from the Universitat Politècnica de València.

His research career has been internationally recognized in the fields of signal processing and artificial intelligence applied to acoustic engineering and multimedia technologies, with contributions that have become reference points in areas such as acoustic source localization and separation, as well as spatial audio. His PhD thesis was awarded by the Spanish Official College of Telecommunication Engineers (COIT) and highlighted by EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) as one of the most downloaded from its repository. Among his most influential contributions is the “Modified SRP-PHAT” algorithm, widely cited and adopted as a reference method in the technical literature on sound source localization. He has carried out research stays at leading institutions such as TU Berlin, TU Wien and Politecnico di Milano—where he was also a visiting professor—and has collaborated closely with top international researchers in the field of audio and signal processing. His scientific impact has led him to serve on prestigious technical committees such as those of EURASIP, IEEE and the European Acoustics Association, where he has been an elected member and currently sits on the Board of Directors.

Throughout his career, Dr. Cobos has participated in numerous competitive research projects, acting as principal investigator and coordinator in several of them, and fostering collaborations with both academic institutions and technology companies. His work has also resulted in industrial applications, particularly in the field of acoustic accessibility. On the editorial front, he has played a prominent role as associate editor and senior area editor for high-impact scientific journals in his field. In addition, he has served as reviewer and panel member for scientific evaluation committees at national and international levels, collaborating with research agencies in countries such as Spain, Italy, Ireland, Argentina, and the Czech Republic.

At the University of Valencia, Dr. Cobos has been one of the driving forces behind the creation of the Signal Theory and Communications area, leading from its inception the SPAT (Signal Processing and Acoustic Technology) research group, which is part of the HiPIS (High-Performance and Intelligent Systems) collective. He directed the Master’s Degree in Telecommunication Engineering (2014–2023), served as Coordinator of the Degree in Telematics Engineering (2018–2020), and currently serves as Head of UVOcupació at the University-Business Foundation ADEIT, where he promotes employability and engagement between the university and the professional environment. Additionally, from 2012 to 2023, he was a member of the Regional Board of the Official College of Telecommunication Engineers of the Valencian Community, actively contributing to strengthening ties between the academic, professional and institutional spheres.

Hi! my name is Santiago Felici-Castell, I was born in Algemesí (Valencia). I completed my Telecommunication Engineer degree and my PhD in Telecommunication Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de València in 1993 and 1998 respectively. I am currently a tenured professor at the Universitat de València in the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria (ETSE) in the area of telematic engineering. My work focuses on computer networks, especially wireless sensor networks (Internet of Things), fog and edge computing on 5G infraestructures and software-defined networks on synchronisation and quality of service aspects, where I have published more than 50 papers in international conferences (two of them as best paper award) and more than 40 papers in international journals (in Journal Citation Report (JCR), Q1, Q2 with more than 1000 cites). I am reviewer of several high impact journals and member of serveral internacional conferences. I have participated in 15 national, 3 European, 1 European Network of Excellence and 1 national competitive projects. I have been principal investigator (PI) in 6 research projects (ELAS, Varimos I and II, Urbauramon, Eco4Ruppa and Greenish). I collaborate with different international centres: from the pre-doctoral stage Cern (CH), USC (USA) and from the post-doctoral stage in UA (IT, DETI, Aveiro City Lab), UWS (Beyond 5G Hub, UK), UCE (Millenium P., UK), UCY(DECS, CY), UNAB (CO), UFS (BR) and UCA (DEI-LED, PY) and national centres UPCatalonia (SP), UPV, UMurcia (SP).
I have supervised 3 doctoral theses and waiting for the next one. I have also supervised more than 20 master's theses and 37 final projects and/or final degree projects. I have collaborated with private companies through  research and development contracts. I am a certified Cisco Systems instructor and coordinator of the Networking Academy of the University of Valencia. I have participated in several Teaching Innovation Projects and I have been director of the masters 'Advanced Sciences of Modern Telecommunications', ‘Telecommunication Enginyer’ and 'Routing, switching, troubleshooting and data optimisation', as well as course coordinator for the degree and course in Telematics Engineering, Erasmus, Final Degree Projects and Practicum coordinator. I have been part of the PhD commission of the Information, Communication and Computing Technologies Programme. I am an evaluator of the AQU Catalan Quality Agency, the Andalusian Agency and MINECO.

Vicente González Millán, Telecommunications Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (1993), PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Valencia (1998), Graduate in Physics (2019).

Professor of Electronic Technology in the Department of Electronic Engineering of the University of Valencia since 2016.

He is a member of the i2N research group (Electronic Instrumentation in Medical and Nuclear Physics) and responsible for the nuclear instrumentation research line, a member of IRIMED (UVEG-LaFe Joint Research Unit), a member of GFTENA (Consolidated Research Unit of the Junta de Castilla y León), a member of the TC-10 committee on Signal Integrity of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society and a member of the IEEE Consultants Network.

His doctoral thesis on the evaluation of hierarchical and parallel architectures for data acquisition systems applied to particle physics experiments was published in the books 'Handbook of Sensor Networks: compact wireless and wired sensing systems' and 'Smart Dust: sensor network applications, architecture and design' published by CRC Press.

From 1995 to 2013 he worked on the realization of the Read Out Driver system for the TileCal hadronic calorimeter of the ATLAS/LHC experiment at CERN.

Since 2012 he has been participating in the AGATA collaboration in the development of the experiment's backend electronics. He also participates in the NEDA and GRIT experiments.

He is the author of more than 50 international publications in the first third or fourth of their categories. He has supervised 10 doctoral theses related to the development of electronics for data acquisition in high-energy experiments or nuclear physics and transfer to ICT companies.

He has participated in several research projects, 14 of them funded by the CICYT (6 of them as principal investigator), 2 by the European Union (one as an external advisor) and 5 by the Generalitat Valenciana (including several PROMETEO projects).

He is co-inventor of two patents in operation by the company FERMAX, S.A.U.

The scientific objectives pursued by his line of research are the establishment of a strong participation in international experiments both in the technical and scientific areas thanks to collaboration with other groups. In this sense, the medium-term objective is to consolidate the presence and importance of the pole formed by the AGATA-IFIC group of the Institute of Corpuscular Physics and the i2N group in the AGATA experiment.

Enrique A. Navarro-Camba has a degree in Physics (1988) and a PhD in Physics from the Universitat de València (1992), his Thesis supervisor was Vicente Such Belenguer, Professor of Applied Physics. 

From August 1988 to January 1989 he worked at Grupo de Mecánica del Vuelo S.A. (GMV S.A., Madrid).  He joined the University of Valencia in 1989, where he worked in R&D projects of the University in cooperation with Radiación & Microondas S.A. (RYMSA). He received scholarships from the Valencian Government and the Ministry of Education and Science of Spain. He was assistant professor in 1991, contracted professor in 1994, associated professor in 1997, and full professor in 2010.

He worked at the Communications Research Laboratory of McMaster University (ON, Canada) in 1994 and 1995, where he improved the non-orthogonal-FDTD (Finite Difference Time Domain) technique. He worked on the analysis of passive devices for beamforming networks (Spar-Aerospace, Quebec) and planar antennas (RIM-Blackberry, Waterloo).

At the University of Valencia he has been teaching subjects related to electromagnetism, electromagnetic waves, microwaves, antennas and advanced communications. He has taught in undergraduate, doctoral, graduate and master courses of Physics, Chemistry and School of Engineering (ETSE). He has served on several committees at the University of Valencia, and his teaching has contributed mainly to the Telecommunications degrees of the University of Valencia, the Master of Telecommunications Engineering, and the Master of Advanced Sciences of Modern Telecommunications, University of Valencia- University Pompeu Fabra,

In 1993 he joined the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory & Techniques, and later on all the IEEE and IEE (now IET) journals on antennas, microwaves and propagation. Over the years he served on the Editorial Board of the world's most prestigious journals in Electromagnetism, Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Geoelectromagnetism: IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IGARS, PIERS, Electronics Letters, IEE Proceedings on Microwave Antennas and Propagation (IET-MAP), Optics Express, ETRI Journal, International Journal of Electronics, Bioelectromagnetics, Scientific Reports... Reviews projects from NASA and the United States Department of Energy (DOE).

He worked in more than 30 competitive research projects of Spanish Government, Andalucia Government, and Valencian Goverment, in cooperation with the research team of Professor Juan A. Morente of the University of Granada and the Austrian Space Agency.

At the University of Valencia, he is in charge of the antenna measurement system, Anechoic Chamber, a large installation covering 5m x 5m x 8m, with near-field measurement and near-to-far-field transformation. He also maintains the WWLLN-Valencia (World Wide Lightning Location Network) measurement station that records electrical activity of atmospheric origin at a planetary level, covering the western Mediterranean, in collaboration with Prof. Robert Holzworth of the University of Washington.

Dr. Navarro's research interests focus on all aspects of electromagnetism, computational electromagnetism, electromagnetic waves, antennas, wave propagation and their measurements.

K. L. Shlager and J. B. Schneider, "A selective survey of the finite-difference time-domain literature," in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 39-57, Aug. 1995, doi: 10.1109/74.414731.

J. Javier Samper Zapater has a bachelor's degree of Computer´s Science from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (1995) and PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Valencia (2005). Currently, he works as Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) of the University of the Computer Science Department and the School of Engineering of the University of Valencia (ETSE-UV). He is a member of the LISITT research group belonging to the Institute of Robotics and Information Technology and Communications (IRTIC) since 1996. His areas of research focus on the fields of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Information and Web Systems Semantics In these areas, he has participated in national and international research projects (SERTI, ARTS, EASYWAY ...), with different roles: lead researcher, technical coordinator, consultant and developer. He has published more than 100 publications both in journals and conferences, in which he has participated several times as reviewer, editorial or scientific  committee, keynote speaker or chair. He is currently the secretary and founding member of ESAM Technology Company Ltd., a spin off of the University of Valencia formed in 2007. In addition, having been president from 2012 to 2022, he is currently the vice-president of the international conferences organization EATIS.org (Euro American Association on Telematics and Information Systems), president of the academic coordination commission of the Master's Degree in Telecommunication Engineering, coordinator of the third course of the Engineering Degree in Telematics, and a member of the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program "Information Technology, Communications and Computing" at the University of Valencia until December 2020.

Research lines:

• Semantic Web and Linked Open Data 
• ITS systems  (Intelligent Transport Systems).