Presenter’s name and affiliation: Professor Ignacio R. Matías
Fellow IEEE
Department of Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering. Institute of Smart Cities
Public University of Navarra, Spain
Email: natxo@unavarra.es
Biography: Ignacio R. Matias received the M.S. degree in Telecommunications Engineering and his Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. He is married with 4 children. In July 1996 Ignacio R. Matias received the UPM extraordinary prize to the best doctoral thesis of the year 1996-97. In 1998 he became Lecture in the Department of Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering (DIEEC) at the Public University of Navarra (UPNA); and from October 2006 he is Professor of DIEEC and responsible for the Sensors Research Group at UPNA.
Ignacio R. Matias has participated in more than 120 research projects with both public and private funding. As a result of these works he has obtained 16 patents and 6 copyrights. Regarding transfer to the industry, he has been a founding partner of six spin-off companies. He has published more than 285 papers in international research journals high impact. In addition, we have been accepted about 300 works at international conferences of prestige (17 of which were invited). He also is the author of 7 books and 21 international scientific chapters in different books.
As for academic positions, he has had, mentioning that he has been Deputy Director from 1999 to 2006 and Director from 2009 to September 2014 to the School of Industrial, Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Engineering at the Public University of Navarra. From 2014 to 2017, he has been the first Director of the Research Institute of the Public University of Navarra, Institute of Smart Cities (ISC). In 2017 he became the TEC (electronic and communications technology) Coordinator of the AEI (Spanish Research Agency). Presently, he is the President of the Spanish Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) Claims Committee.
More details can be available at
https://scholar.google.es/citations?hl=en&user=CuiNGkYAAAAJ
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2229-6178
https://www.unavarra.es/pdi?uid=1896
