2026.05.25.
Jon González-Ramos undertook a research stay at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (United Kingdom).
The stay covered the period 25 May-31 July 2026.
During the secondment Jon was supervised by Dr Yljon Seferi.
2026.05.19.
Starting date: 19 May 2026
End date: 27 May 2026
2025.09.08.
Javier Vildósola undertook a three-month research stay at the Brno University of Technology (Czechia).
The research stay covered the period 8th September-13th December 2025.
He was supervised by Professor Petr Mlýnek.
2025.06.01.
Alexander Gallarreta undertook a two-month research stay at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) within the GCEM (Grup de Compatibilitat Electromagnètica, Electromagnetic Compatibility Group) research team. It took place from 2 June to 1 August 2025.
2024.08.30.
Amaia Arrinda visited the Performance Engineering Lab in the School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University (DCU), directed by Prof. Gabriel-Miro Muntean.
During her stay, Amaia learnt from researchers from different cultural backgrounds, including: Ireland, Romania, Brazil, France, India, Pakistan and Iran, techniques and the fundamentals for simulating and developing performance-based solutions in the area of Smart Grid communications.
The research stay covered the period 30 August 2024-29 November 2024.
2024.06.26.
Jon Montalbán stayed on a research stay at the Western University, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
He was supervised by Professor Xianbin Wang.
The research stay covered the period 26th June 2024-26th August 2024.
2024.04.29.
Igor Fernández stayed as an invited professor at the Universitá degli Studi di Genova (University of Genoa), in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering and Naval Architecture.
He was supervised by Professor Andrea Mariscotti.
The research stay covered the period 29th April 2024-31st July 2024.
2023.09.15.
Guillermo Díaz stayed as a predoctoral researcher at the Tampere University, from 5th September to 20th December 2023, under the supervision of Professor Bo Tan.
During the research secondment at the University of Tampere, Guillermo Díaz worked on a Deep Learning model for human activity detection and Federated Learning.
Starting date: 5th September 2023
Number of weeks: 13
2023.05.15.
Iñigo Bilbao stayed as a predoctoral researcher at the University of Oulu, from 15th May to 15th August 2023, under the supervision of Professor Markku Juntti.
During the research secondment at the University of Oulu, Iñigo Bilbao worked on Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Physical Layer Security (PLS) systems.
Starting date: 15th May 2023
Number of weeks: 13
2023.03.01.
Alexander Gallarreta stayed as a predoctoral researcher at National Physics Laboratory (NPL), the National Metrology Institute (NMI) of the United Kingdom from 1st March to 30th June 2023, under the supervision of Ph.D. Stefano Lodetti.
During the research secondment at NPL, Alexander Gallarreta worked on defining measurement methods for the characterization of impulsive disturbances, extending existing techniques up to 500 kHz, and evaluating alternative methods to CISPR 16 for the distribution grid.
Starting date: 1st March 2023
Number of weeks: 18
2023.02.13.
Jon González stayed a predoctoral researcher at University of Applied Sciences (FH Technikum Wien) in Vienna (Austria) from 13th February to 12th June 2023.
During this period of time his research activities focused on the characterisation of the impedance variations and emissions generated by the charging processes of electric vehicles (EVs) in a controlled low-voltage network at the FH Technikum Wien. Furthermore, the influence of these two aspects on Narrowband Power Line Communications (NB PLC) was analysed.
Starting date: 13th February 2023
Number of weeks: 17
2023.01.08.
Iñigo Bilbao stayed as PhD student at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) in Madrid (Spain) from 8th January to 16th February 2023.
During this period of time his research activities focused on the study of the applicability of Machine Learning techniques to massive non-coherent MIMO.
Starting date: 8th January 2023
Number of weeks: 6
2019.10.02.
Iratxe Landa stayed as an invited professor at Dublin City University (DCU) in Dublin (Ireland) from 2nd October to 29th November 2019.
During this period of time her research activities focused on the study of location and tracking of indoor radio users based on their radio-wave signals. The particular technology investigated was an Ultra Wide Band real-time positioning system, in conjunction with Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) position estimation. The work involved developing theoretical models and comparing the outcome to observed results using a deployed system.
Starting date: 2nd October 2019
Number of weeks: 9
2019.08.01.
Marta Fernández stayed as a postdoctoral researcher at ECIT (The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology) at Queens University Belfast (United Kingdom) from 1st August 2019 to 31st October 2019.
During this period of time her research activities focused on analyzing the effect that the human body can have on millimeter wave communications.
Starting date: 1st August 2019
Number of weeks: 13
2019.07.10.
Jon Montalbán stayed as an invited professor at Dublin City University (DCU) in Dublin (Ireland) from 10 July 2019 to 21 December 2019.
During the stay, work was carried out on access and link layer models for network simulations in multicast environments.
2019.07.08.
Eneko Iradier stayed as a predoctoral researcher at Communications Research Center (CRC) in Ottawa (Canada) from 8th July 2019 to 10th August 2019.
During this period of time he worked on the study of Next Generation Digital TV in-band backhaul systems by using full duplex transmissions with LDM. Besides that, he also took part in field tests, where DTV field strength and loopback signal were measured.
Starting date: 8th July 2019
Number of weeks: 5
2017.10.04.
Iratxe Landa stayed as an invited professor at Griffith Engineering School, Griffith University in Brisbane (Australia) from 4th October 2017 to 30th December 2017.
During this period of time her research activities focused on the simulations using the commercial three-dimensional electromagnetic simulation software (CST Microwave Studio) and measurements in order to study the radio interference effects in weareble receivers for gastrointestinal pill tracking.
Starting date: 4th October 2017
Number of weeks: 13
2016.09.01.
Marta Fernández made an international predoctoral stay from 1st September 2016 to 1st May 2017at Griffith Engineering School, Griffith University (Brisbane,Australia).
During her research stay she worked on electromagnetic projects related to the radiation from wearable antennas.
Starting date: 1st September 2016
Number of weeks: 34
2016.08.28.
Jon Barrueco made an international predoctoral stay starting on 28th August 2016 in Brest (France).
He developed a low complexity demapper based on condensation and adaptive sub-region (SCASR) selection for two-dimensional non-uniform constellation (2D-NUC). Besides, a new set of NUCs based on demapping restrictions have been designed providing low demapping complexity with negligible system performance losses.
Starting date: 28th August 2016
Number of weeks: 13
2016.05.05.
Cristina Regueiro made an international predoctoral stay from 5th May to 3rd September 2016 at the ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) in Daejeon (South Korea).
During this period of time she performed several ATSC 3.0 laboratory measurements and the first field trials were carried out.
Starting date: 5th May 2016
Number of weeks: 17
2013.09.10.
Iratxe Landa made an international postdoctoral stay from 10th September 2013 to 9th January at Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli - Université de Corse Pascal Paoli (University of Corsica) in Corsica (France).
During this period of time she was involved in the improvement of the real time fire image capture system. Her contributions were in three projects: the evaluation of the accuracy of a new GPS system used to calibrate the vision systems in fire spreading experiments; the remote control of an infrared camera and the development of a new system to control the real-time acquisition of images.
Starting date: 10th September 2013
Number of weeks: 18
2013.01.01.
Iker Sobrón stayed as postdoctoral researcher in the SMT Lab from 1st January 2013 to 31st December 2014 at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
During this period of time he was involved in the development of new adaptive algorithms for the cooperative detection of the spectrum in cognitive radio networks.
Starting date: 1st January 2013
Number of weeks: 96
2012.06.15.
Jon Montalbán stayed as a predoctoral researcher at the Communications Research Center (CRC) in Ottawa (Canada) from 15th June 2012 to December 2012.
During this period of time he was involved in the development of new techniques to optimize the spectrum usage in dynamic environments. This technique was called LDM (Layered Division Multiplexing).
Starting date: 15th June 2012
Number of weeks: 24
2012.04.02.
Javier Morgade stayed as a predoctoral researcher at the IRT (Institut für Rundfunktechnik, Institute for Radio Technology ) in Munich (Germany).
During the research secondment he worked on the design a field and laboratory testing plan for DVB-T2 networks in the distributed MISO area.
Starting date: 2 April 2012
Number of weeks: 8
This stay was extended during the first three weeks of July 2012 in order to carry out field tests.
2011.09.01.
Pablo Angueira stayed as an invited professor at the Universita' Degli Studi di Cagliari (University of Cagliari) in Cagliari (Italy) from 1st September 2011 to 20th January 2012. During this period of time his research activities focused on different techniques to identify White Spaces in UHF Frequency band. In particular, on the detection of White Spaces in harsh environments for reception, such as noisy environments and indoor and deep indoor locations.
Starting date: 1st September 2011
Number of weeks: 20
2009.05.01.
Iván Peña stayed as a predoctoral researcher at Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm (Georg Simon Ohm University Nuremberg) in Nuremberg (Germany) starting in May 2009 during 14 weeks. During this period of time his research activities focused on (he was involved in the) research of propagation and noise in the 26 MHz frequency band for DRM local services.
Starting date: May 2009
Number of weeks: 14
2008.09.15.
Manuel Vélez stayed as a predoctoral researcher at the Turun yliopisto, University of Turku in the Department of Information Technology, in Turku (Finland) starting on 15th September 2008 during 21 weeks.
Starting date: 15th September 2008
Number of weeks: 21
2008.07.01.
Amaia Arrinda stayed as an invited researcher from 1st July 2008 until 30th October 2008 at Brunel University London in Uxbridge, Middlesex (United Kingdom).
During this period of time she was involved in several field tests for DVB carried out.
Starting date: 1st July 2008
Number of weeks: 18
2006.04.01.
Iván Peña stayed as a predoctoral researcher at Universidade de Brasília in Brasilia (Brazil) starting in April 2006 for 12 weeks.
During this period of time he took part in field trials in Brazil for the study of DRM broadcasting using the 26 MHz frequency band.
Starting date: April 2006
Number of weeks: 12
2002.09.01.
Juan Luis Ordiales stayed as a postdoctoral researcher at Communications Research Center (CRC) in Ottawa (Canada) from 1st September 2002 to 31st March 2003.
During this period of time his research activities focused on radio waves propagation for multimedia applications.
Starting date: 1st September 2002
Number of weeks: 34
