Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Terrassa, Spain
Topics
Smart Antennas Microwave Engineering
Biography
Ignacio Gil was born in 1978 in Barcelona, Spain. He received degrees in physics and electronics engineering in 2000 and 2003, and then his PhD in 2007 from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. From 2003 to 2008 he was assistant professor in electronics and a researcher with the RF-Microwave Group in the Electronic Engineering Department, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, Spain. From 2006 to 2008 he worked for EPSON Europe Electronics GmbH where he developed high-performance integrated RF CMOS circuits, transceivers and system design. In 2008 he joined the Electronic Engineering Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain, as lecturer and researcher. Since 2011 he is associate professor at UPC. Since 2012 he is also a collaborator at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain. He has been involved in 12 research projects (3 as principal researcher) in different research activities including passive and active RF and microwave devices and circuits, metamaterials, EMC and smart textile electronics. He is co-author of more than 150 scientific publications and 17 patents. He has been awarded the Duran Farell de Investigación Tecnológica (2006) and the patent award from SEIKO EPSON Corporation (2010). From 2012-2014 he served as Chairman of the Spanish IEEE EMC Chapter. In 2017 he was academic visitor at Loughborough University (UK) in the Wireless Communications Research Group. Since 2019 he is Deputy Director for International Relations at ESEIAAT(UPC)
