Francisco Falcone
Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
Received his Telecommunications Engineering Degree (1999) and PhD in Communications Engineering (2005), both at the Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA) in Spain. From 1999 to 2000 he worked as Microwave Commissioning Engineer at Siemens-Italtel. From 2000 to 2008 he worked as Radio Network Engineer in Telefónica Móviles. In 2009 he co-founded Tafco Metawireless, a spin off devoted to complex EM analysis. From 2003 to 2009 he was also Assistant Lecturer at UPNA, becoming Associate Professor in 2009. His research area is artificial electromagnetic media, complex electromagnetic scenarios and wireless system analysis. He has over 400 contributions in journal and conference publications. He has been recipient of the CST Best Paper Award in 2003 and 2005, Best PhD in 2006 awarded by the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Doctorate award 2004-2006 awarded by UPNA, Juan Lopez de Peñalver Young Researcher Award 2010 awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain, Premio Talgo 2012 for Technological Innovation, ANIT Ingeniero del Año Award, ECSA-I 2014 Best Paper Award and IISA 2015 Best Paper Award.