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Effficiency of Mottor Imagery bassed Brain‐Comp
puter Interfacess Resumen de laa Memoria: A relevant type of Human‐Macchine Interface is the Brain CComputer Interface (BCI). It trranslates the inntent of a subjject measured from brrain signals into
o control actions to command machines or computer app
plications. To measure m
brain aactivity, many BCI systems rely on ele
ectroencephalo
ography (EEG), because it is relatively cheapp, easy to acquire, minimally intrusive and ddoes not involve risks for the user. Ho
owever, EEG haas a very poor ssignal to noise ratio and is higghly non‐station
nary. These are
e major challengges for BCI systtems that limit their ap
pplication in reaal‐life settings. It has been shown that a nonn‐negligible portion of the healthy populatioon, estimated 3
30%, cannot ach
hieve BC
CI control to an
n acceptable level. This percentage may beccome as high as 100% for patients dependinng on their pathology. BCI sysstems arre inefficient. My research has addressed the inefficiency of BCI systems in the following tthree directionss: Firrst, the use of adaptive tecchniques during online expe riments. Adapttation helps overcoming nonn‐stationaritiess during the online o
op
peration and offfers the possib
bility to study co
o‐adaptation off human and m
machine. My wo
ork demonstratted that co‐adaptation significcantly im
mproves system
m performance and is a key factor f
to reducce BCI inefficie
ency. My PhD showed s
adaptiive BCI systems working in online o
op
peration and ccompared them
m to non‐adap
ptive BCIs, findding that co‐ad
daptive systems are significa ntly better. Du
uring my postd
doc I inttegrated machine learning methods and adaptive signal p rocessing techn
niques into the
e Berlin BCI sysstem. This nove
el approach allo
owed ussers who beforee were not ablee to operate a BCI to attain coontrol after 30 minutes of BCI training and rreduced BCI ine
efficiency to thee half orr even less. Se
econd, the use of invariance learning. Noisyy signals are chhallenging for adaptive a
system
ms because of tthe risk of learrning uninform
mative siggnal variations. One way to reduce the efffect of noise iss to learn it and make the BCI B invariant too it. Another option o
is to exxtract infformative invaariant informattion and comp
pute features ttaking only this subspace in
nto account. U
Using invariant methods supports de
eveloping robu
ust (adaptive) BCIs. B
Part of my m work used invariance leaarning to discriminate betweeen effective tasks and irreleevant baackground men
ntal states that can seriously afffect BCI perforrmance. Th
hird, the use off alternative signals during th
he calibration pprocedure (sign
nal acquisition without neuroo‐feedback) on the motor imaagery tasks where bad
d or very bad performance p
is expected. Wee have shown that t
it is possib
ble to significanntly increase the efficiency of o BCI mbs for calibratiion and simultaneously reducce the time neeeded to optimze the system, thus syystems using induced movements of the lim
re
elieving the useers from performing tiring motor m
imagery ssessions. Quickk calibration is a key factor ffor the design of BCI system
ms for paatients. Th
he results of th
his new techno
ology can be ap
pplied in two ccontexts: first,, robust system
ms are necessa ry in rehabilita
ation during paatient traaining, co‐adap
ptive BCI system
ms allow very ffast user traininng and thus tarrget the recove
ery of certain bbrain areas with
h the help of neeuro‐
feedback. Second
d, neuro‐prosth
heses for restorration of lost fuunctions that arre based on BCI technology muust be robust and efficient. Currículum V
Vitae: Resumen del C
Drr. in Telecomm
munication Engineering, M Sc. in Telecommuunication Engin
neering. Curren
ntly: maternity leave. Before, from April 201
13 to Au
ugust 2014 parrt‐time (10h/weeek) for the DFFG project VitaalBCI. From 201
10 to 2013 managing the EU‐‐project MUND
DUS in the Macchine Le
earning departm
ment (maternitty break appro
ox. Jan 2012 too Jan 2013). The T project was about neuroo‐prostheses co
ontrolled with BCIs. Re
ecently, we sho
owed that it is possible to use NMES signalss to decode motor imagery and a improve claassification perrformance. This has im
mplications in th
he field of neuro‐rehabilitation
n, because it is possible to infe
er a better mod
del using NMESS signals for poo
or performing u
users. Be
efore, I was co
o‐manager of th
he EU‐IP‐projecct TOBI (2010‐22008) in the saame department. The projectt was a large consortium c
to bring fo
orward BCI. My work focused in the training of users who ccould not reach BCI control w
with the state‐oof‐the‐art syste
em. We reduced
d the pe
ercentage of peeople suffering from BCI ineffiiciency to the hhalf and showe
ed that it is possible to learn too modulate sen
nsorimotor rhyythms in less than one hour of trainingg with the use of machine leaarning and adap
ptive technique
es. In parallel, I have been working in the anaalysis off non‐stationariities in EEG datta and the robu
ustification of BBCI systems within the projeccts co‐BCI and AABCI where I w
was PI. From 200
06 to 20
008 I was Mariee‐Curie granted
d postdoc at the Intelligent Daata Analysis gro
oup in the Frau
unhofer Institutte. My research
h was about thee use off autoregressivee models to describe sensorim
motor rhythms.. I developed a the Time Domain Parameterss. From 2005 to
o 2006 I was prredoc an
nd postdoc reseearcher at the C
CIMA in Pamplona (Spain), in the field of fM
MRI processing. My work theree was about the
e influence of 4
40‐Hz au
uditory stimulattion on the cerebellum. From
m 2002 to 20055 I was guest researcher r
at th
he Graz Univerrsity of Techno
ology. PhD stud
dents: Claudia Sannelli (Summa Cum Laude, Dec. 20
012), Wojtech SSamek (Summa Cum Laude, June 2014), Javvier Pascual (June 2015). External Fu
unding: More th
han 1 Million EEuros (EU‐proje
ect MUNDUS, D
DFG project in SSPP 1527, BMB
BF project ABCI)). International collaborationss: BCI M
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esearch group iin Graz, Austriaa. Group of Dr. Motoaki Kaw
wanabe at ATR in the Brain In
nformation Com
mmunication Research R
Laboratory Grroup (BICR). Group of Prof. Birrbaumer in Tüb
bingen (Dr. And er Ramos) and the group of Prof. Villringer inn Leipzig. Caree
er breaks: Mateernity leaave from 01‐122‐11 to 14‐01‐1
13, and from 15
5‐08‐14 until 311‐08‐15. Grantss: Post‐doctoral Marie Curie G
Grant of the EU
U (2006‐2008). Post‐
do
octoral Grant �
�Juan de la Cierva� (declined 2006). Pree‐doctoral Gran
nt �Formación
n de profesoraado Universitario, FPU� from
m the fo
ormer Spanish Ministerium for f Research (2001‐2005). (
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Grant for outsstanding acade
emic results (M
Master Projectt, 2000). Grant for ou
utstanding acad
demic results (high school dip
ploma,1994). O
Other: Project reviewer r
for th
he Spanish Govvernment and the Czech Reseearch Fo
oundation. Reviewer of two PhD P dissertations and examinner of one PhD exam. I was in
nvited speaker r at several Uniiversities in Europe. Sccientific producction: H‐index 1
18, number of ccitations 1728 aaccording to Go
oogle scholar. N
Number of pappers: 30, book cchapters: 5, number off conferences and seminars: 50. Participation
n in 18 researchh projects (4 as Principal Investtigator). My cittation count sho
ows that I publiished re
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m.upv.es Títtulo: Innovative Micro
owave Photoniccs Resumen de laa Memoria: Ass a researcher in photonics, my field of exxpertise embraaces two innovvative areas: Microwave M
Phootonics (MWP) and Space‐Divvision Multiplexing (SDM). My research careeer started with my PhD in 20
005 exploring nnovel ideas in h
high‐speed multimode fiber (M
MMF) transmission, which led
d to a ew research line at the ITEAM
M Institute (Polyytechnic Univ. oof Valencia). I d
developed a novel and compreehensive mode
el for the evaluation ne
off MMF transmission that allow
wed me to ide
entify the two rrequirements that t
must be fulfilled to achieeve broadband
d transmission: low‐
lin
newidth lasers aand central‐mo
ode excitation. Thanks to this model, I identified that MMF links actually ddisplay passban
nds above baseband that can be emplloyed for the trransmission of rradio‐over‐fibe r signals in addition to traditio
onal baseband ddigital signals. T
This finding meeant a paaradigm shift in
n the current M
MMF telecommu
unications infraastructure that resulted in a series of record experiments. T
The most impo
ortant on
ne was the tran
nsmission of 1 Tb/(s.km), at the t time the w
world record in capacity sent through a MM
MF. This work had h a high poteential im
mpact since it op
pened the path
h to ultra‐high ccapacity in‐housse communicattions. Up
pon completingg my PhD in 20
008, I continue
ed my career oon the applicatiion of Slow and
d Fast Light (SFFL) techniques to MWP undeer the fraamework of th
he European Project P
GOSPELL. My principall role was linked to the proof‐of‐concept aapplication of 3 SFL technologies (photonic crystal waveguides, active semiconductor wavegguides based on o quantum dots d
and opticaal fibers nonlinearities) to MWP, M
sp
pecifically to bro
oadband phasee shifters and tu
unable complexx‐valued filters.. Among my mo
ost relevant outtcomes, it is wo
orth mentioning the firrst‐ever demon
nstration of tunable & reconfiggurable integra ted MWP filterrs based on a Photonic Crystall waveguide de
elay line and a w
world re
ecord in the ban
ndwidth of a tunable microwave phase shifteer. In 2011 I was aw
warded a Fulbrigght Fellowship in support of reesearch to be ccarried out at S
Stanford Univ. ((US) on SDM, 2
2012‐2014. With the exxploitation of the last degree of freedom fo
or multiplexingg available ‐spaace‐ my work pursued p
a soluttion to the cap
pacity bottleneck of Digital Communiications. The fu
uture optical ne
etwork can bennefit from SDM
M by establishing independentt multiple light paths via multticore fib
bers or MMFs. The line of wo
ork carried out at Stanford foccused on a speccial type of MM
MF, the few‐moode fiber (FMF), which propaggates on
nly a limited number of mod
des, allowing a much more sttable performaance and, thus, the practical realization of SDM systems.. This ap
pproach demon
nstrated that SDM in FMFs ca
an potentially iincrease per‐fib
ber capacity by
y a factor of 100 or more in access networkss and de
ense data centeer interconnects. Baack in Valencia in 2014, my current interestts are focused towards the in
nnovative application of SDM to MWP. This concept was firstly f
inttroduced by m
me in the researrch communityy in 2012, propposing the pioneering extensio
on of SDM to tthe areas of an
nalog photonicss and radio‐over‐fiber systems. The reesearch backgrround and expeerience develop
ped through the years aroundd the areas of M
MWP and SDM puts me in a privilegeed position to unify them in what is my onngoing line of research: r
the design and de monstration off SDM technologies sp
pecifically tailorred for novel MWP application
ns, exploiting unnique features brought by the inherent paralllelism of multiccore or FMFs. Resumen del C
Currículum V
Vitae: My research careeer in the field
d of Photonics started with m
my PhD in 2005 (funded by the Spanish FPI ffellowship) exp
ploring new ideeas in multimode fibre
es at the ITEAM
M Research Institute (Polytechnic University oof Valencia, UP
PVLC). The impaact of high‐speed transsmission over m
p awarded by the IEEE Photonnics Society. I am a the last Spaanish my doctoral worrk was reflected in the 2008 Graduate Stud ent Fellowship
esearcher that collected this extremely com
mpetitive internnational award. Upon comple
eting my PhD i n 2008, I continued my careeer at re
ITEAM working o
on the applicatiion of Slow and
d Fast light techhniques to Miccrowave Photon
nics. From 20122 to 2014 I wass a Fulbright Vissiting Sccholar at Stanfo
ord University (US) working o
on Space‐divisioon multiplexingg. Back to the ITEAM in 2014,, my current in
nterests are foccused to
owards the inno
ovative applicattion of Space‐division multipleexing to Microw
wave Photonicss. I was evaluatted as category A in both steps 1 & 2 in the 2014 ERC
C Starting Grant call. I h
have participateed as a research
her and co‐man
nager in severaal projects or Ne
etworks of Exce
ellence funded by public or private bodies. During my career at UP
PVLC, I was invo
olved in 5 Euro
opean projects,, (highlighting the t FP7‐ICT pro
ojects Alpha annd GOSPEL), 4 national projeccts, 3 re
egional projectss and 1 project ffunded by UPV
VLC. I also particcipated in a privvate project fun
nded by Telefónnica Investigaciión y Desarrollo
o. My 2‐year stay at Sttanford was con
nducted under a competitive project funded by the Spanish Ministerio dde Educación and the US Fulb
bright Co
ommission, in w
which I particip
pated as the sccientific coordi nator. Simultan
neously, I colla
aborated in a pproject funded by the US Nattional Sccience Foundation (NSF) and in a project funded by Googl e Inc. Last, I accted as a contrributor to a seccond NSF‐supp
ported project tto be de
eveloped in 20014‐2016. Amo
ong my interna
ational activitiees, I carried out o productive collaborationss with Universität Duisburg‐EEssen (G
Germany), Universidad Carlos III, Ecole Polytechnique Fédéérale de Lausan
nne (Switzerland), Universidadd Pública de Na
avarra, DTU Fotonik (D
Denmark), Thalees Research & TTechnology (Fra
ance). These coollaborations resulted in 5 joint journal paperrs and 3 joint co
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Th
he results of m
my work have leed to 53 intern
national peer‐rreviewed publiccations, classifiied as 24 SCI‐JCCR journal pub
blications (13 as a 1st au
uthor) and 29 cconferences (15
5 as 1st authorr). Among them
m, 5 are invited
d papers to SCI‐JCR journals ((2 as 1st author) and 9 are invited co
onference talks (6 as 1st autho
or). I would like
e to highlight aan invited paper to the prestig
gious journal Naature Photoniccs (1st journal in the JC
CR ranking for tthe Optics cateegory, IF=29.27
7 in 2011) andd a paper in Naature Commun
nications (3rd jjournal in the JCR ranking for the Multidisciplinary Science categgory, IF=10.02 in 2012). The current numbe
er of citations for my publicaations is 352 Scopus S
/466 Go
oogle Sccholar, which leeads to an h‐ind
dex of 10 Scopu
us /11 Google SScholar. I have aalso published a
a Spanish patennt of invention on 2012 and seerved ass a reviewer forr 7 IEEE/OSA in
nternational jou
urnals. Concernning training acctivities, I acted
d as the co‐advvisor of a PhD tthesis and 2 Master Th
hesis, and I am the on‐going aadvisor of 1 PhD thesis and coo‐advisor of 2 P
PhD theses. I am
m a member oof the Technical Program and Local Orrganizing Comm
mittees of ECOC
C, the most rele
evant Europeann conference in optical commu
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orreo Electrónico: vinccenzo.mancu
[email protected] Títtulo: Op
pportunistic Wiireless Architecctures Resumen de laa Memoria: Wireless W
networrks are evolving towards fully flexible prot ocols by leveraging software
e‐defined operaations, both in
n terms of nettwork co
ontrol (via SDN mechanisms) and radio reco
onfigurability (vvia SDR techniq
ques) [1]. More
eover, desity annd traffic in wireless networkks are exxponentially inccreasing [2], which w
requires novel architecctures to efficiently use the scarce wirelesss resources with w
heterogen
neous ne
etwork protoco
ols (LTE, 802.11,, mmWave solu
utions, etc.) andd devices (small/metro cells, W
WiFi, etc.). In this frameworrk, the proposeed project focusses on "opportuunistic" solutions for the forth
hcoming 5th geeneration (5G) of highly densee and ntation and exp
perimental evalluation of enerrgy‐efficient, ro
obust, effficient wirelesss networks. Thee project targets analysis, dessign, implemen
fair and high‐thro
oughput wireleess protocols. Baased on the SDN/SDR paradiggm and on the ffeatures of moodern user's devvices and mobiile OSs, such soolutions will be
e thought to sm
martly an
nd promptly reconfigure netw
work access me
echanisms in thhe shared wire
eless spectrum. The proposedd solutions will be "opportuniistic", meaning that ussers and operattors will engine
eer radio links to access radiio channels wh
hen they offer high performance. Thereforee, the ons will allow to
o either minimize transmissionn powers or maaximize through
hput. Moreove r, the project w
will study and assess prroposed solutio
the role of users'' collaboration in two directions: (i) promotinng user‐based ccellular offloadiing mechanism
ms, and (ii) desiggning infrastruccture‐
lesss services bassed on local context information. The formeer direction fossters high spectral efficiency at cell level, whereas w
the lattter is meant to avoid that traffic passes unnecessarily through the operator's netw
work. In general, user‐aassisted offload
ding and infrasttructure‐less seervices can redu
uce delays and airtime consum
med for transmiissions in a cell.. E.g., byy using only goo
od radio chann
nels, the transfe
er time for a giiven amount off traffic is minimized, and moore traffic can b
be exchanged in the ne
etwork. Similarly, context‐awaare infrastructu
ure‐less servicees require very low power, the
ereby allowing for frequency reuse (i.e., multiple paarallel transmissions will be po
ossible over the
e same frequen cy). De
evice‐to‐Devicee (D2D) [3] is th
he key technique needed to eenable the fore
eseen solutionss, while the chaaracterization o
of radio channeels in de
ense environmeents will be keyy to understand
d how to triggerr opportunistic network mechanisms. In the short term
m, the research will target the study and desiggn of: (i) SDN‐controlled D2D architectures foor efficient and
d fair data relayy, and (ii) SDR‐based D22D infrastructurre‐less architectures for conteext‐aware servicces. m, the research will target a a few practicall SDN/SDR dem
mos and evaluate the possibbility to produce new patentts on In the long term
pportunistic nettworking with SSDN and SDR. op
In general, reseaarch results will be used to pursue the publiccation of new id
deas in international renowneed peer‐review
wed conferencess and journals. [1] A. Gudipati, D
D. Perry, L. E. Li,, S. Katti, "SoftR
RAN:Software D
Defined Radio A
Access Network
k", in ACM HotSSDN, 2013. Mahonen, �Riding the data tsunami in the ccloud: myths an
nd challenges in
n future wirelesss access,� IEE
EE Comm. Magazine [2] J. Zander, P. M
(2013). Wang, V. Mancuso. "A Survey on Device‐to‐D
Device Communication in Cellular Networks"", IEEE Communications Surveeys & [3] A. Asadi, Q. W
utorials (2014). Tu
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Currículum V
Vitae: Drr. Vincenzo Maancuso obtaineed his master degree d
in Electtronics from University U
of Pa
alermo, Italy, inn 2001, and a PhD in Electro
onics, Co
omputer Sciencce and Telecom
mmunications frrom the same U
University in 20
005. After the P
PhD, he has col laborated with University of R
Roma ''T
Tor Vergata'' an
nd University o
of Palermo. He has been visitting scholar at the ECE Department of Rice University, Hoouston, Texas, and postdoc in
n the MAESTRO team aat INRIA Sophiaa Antipolis, Fran
nce. Since Sept ember 2010, Vincenzo is with IMDEA Netwoorks Institute, w
working on analyytical nd experimentaal projects on cellular c
and op
pportunistic wirreless networkss (802.11, 802.16/LTE) and ennergy efficient network proto
ocols. an
Vincenzo's publiccation record includes i
more than 60 peer reviewed journal articles and
d conference ppapers, among which 6 INFO
OCOM paapers and severral IEEE transacctions, letters and magazines.
On
ngoing researcch activities: (i)) scheduling an
nd inter‐cell innterference maanagement in very v
dense celllular data networks (ICT CRO
OWD prroject), (ii) design of SDN/SD
DR‐based cellular networks (IICT CROWD prroject and TIGRE5‐CM projecct), (iii) analysis and perform
mance evvaluation of inb
band and outb
band D2D communication schhemes (ICT CROWD project), (iii) characteriization and asssessment of mobile m
brroadband systeems (H2020 MONROE project), (iv) analysiss and impleme
entation of con
ntext‐aware meechanisms for mobile devices, (v) M
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modeling, measu
urements, and eexperiments wiith 802.3az (EEEE links) in data centers. Paast projects: (i) experiments w
with modified 8
802.11 driver/ffirmware (ICT FFLAVIA and ICT CROWD proje cts), (ii) design of flexible wirreless arrchitectures (ICTT FLAVIA projecct), (iii) analysiss and performa nce evaluation of opportunisttic scheduling sschemes for LTE
E/802.11 dual‐m
mode ussers. (iv) analysis and optimizaation of power ssaving strategiees for cellular packet networkss, (v) design of ggreen base stattions, (vi) fairneess in sp
patially biased m
mesh networkss, (vii) performance analysis aand experimen
nts of 802.11‐based mesh nettworks, (viii) su
upport of streaaming ap
pplications in w
wireless systemss, (ix) wireless m
mesh networkss operated by m
means of multip
ple technologiess, namely IEEE 802.11, IEEE 80
02.16 an
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ment‐based adm
mission control in IP networks. Co
ollaborative pro
ojects: Vincenzo
o has participatted in several E uropean, Frencch, Italian and S
Spanish re
esearch projectss, and has recently contribute
ed to the successsful proposal o
of a new H2020
0 FIRE+ project.. He is currentlyy technical man
nager off two European projects: MON
NROE and CROW
WD. Vincenzo has beeen and is invo
olved in severa
al technical proogram committtees of interna
ational peer‐revviewed confere
ences. Indeed he is co
onstantly contriibuting with his peer‐reviewin
ng activity for w
works submitte
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urnals an
nd conferences. perience with teaching and tutoring stude
ents. He has taught Internett protocols and Fundamentaals of Vincenzo has also a good exp
ommunications at University o
of Palermo, and
d Switching, Wi reless Commun
nications and Performance Evvaluation of Nettworks at Univeersity co
Caarlos III of Mad
drid. He has also taught 19 short courses on 2G and 3G cellular networkss, IP networkingg, voice over IP
P, QoS and nettwork se
ecurity. He has directed 12 Master M
Theses and a 12 Bacheloor Theses at Un
niversity of Pale
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esarrollo de esttructuras semicconductoras III‐V
V para células ssolares multuniión de alta eficiencia Resumen de laa Memoria: Mi carrera investtigadora se ha eenmarcado en el desarrollo dee células solare
es fotovoltaicas de alta eficienccia, con enfoqu
ue en células so
olares multiunión de seemiconductores III‐V. Durante
e mi Tesis Docttoral en el Insttituto de Energía Solar de la U
Universidad Po
olitécnica de Madrid (IE
ES‐UPM), desarrrollé células so
olares de doble
e unión de GaInnP/GaAs ajustadas en red sobre substratos dde GaAs, abarca
ando el crecimiento ep
pitaxial de las eestructuras sem
miconductoras m
mediante epitaaxia en fase de vapor con precursores metallorgánicos (MO
OVPE), la fabricaación de
e los dispositivos de célula so
olar y su mode
elado y caracteerización. Este trabajo estuvo
o enmarcado poor la participacción en el proyyecto eu
uropeo FULLSPECTRUM, y por otros proyectos nacionales y contratos co
on empresas nacionales e intternacionales. Un resultado global g
im
mportante fue u
un record mund
dial de eficienciia a alta concenntración en este tipo de célula
as publicado enn Applied Physics Letters e inccluido en
n las listas oficiaales de eficienccias record. Esta
a tecnología fuee transferida a empresas espa
añolas y extranjjeras, y fue objeto de una patente. Mi Tesis Doctoral fue galardonaada con el Prem
mio Extraordinarrio de Doctorad
do de la UPM.
Co
on el objetivo d
de superar las limitaciones termodinámicas intrínsecas a laas estructuras ajustadas en reed, en 2012 em
mprendí mi estancia po
ostdoctoral en el National Renewable Energgy Laboratory ((NREL, Golden, CO, Estados Unidos), U
con unn contrato Fulb
bright (2012‐2013) y po
osteriormente ccon un contrato Marie Curie ‐ IOF (2013‐preesente, proyectto METACELLS) de la Unión Euuropea. El trab
bajo en estos 3 años en
n NREL se ha ceentrado en el d
desarrollo de esstructuras metaamórficas de cé
élula solar, con
n el objetivo dee conseguir ajusstar las anchuraas de baanda prohibida de las subcélu
ulas al óptimo para el especttro solar de trabajo. El logro principal se ppuede resumir en la obtenció
ón de efficiencias de conversión fotovoltaica record (>446%) median
nte el desa
arrollo de células de 4 uniones de GaaInP/GaAs/GaIn
nAs(1eV)/GaInA
As(0.7eV). Esto
o fue posible gracias al dise
eño e implementación de uuna unión túnel metamórficca de GaaAsSb/GaInAs yy de células meetamórficas de GaInAs de 1eV
V con densidad
des de dislocacciones < 5e5 cm
m‐2 y eficiencia
as de luminesceencia intterna > 90%, en
n mi proyecto M
METACELLS. Ottro trabajo imp
portante durantte este postdocc es el análisis y aprovechamiiento de la lum
minescencia en células solares III‐V, y en concreto de
el reciclaje de fo
otones y del accoplamiento de
e fotones, en ell marco de un p
proyecto F‐PACE del US Deparrtment of Energgy. Con este traabajo he
emos conseguid
do acercarnos al límite teóricco de eficienciaa en células mo
onounión de GaAs y GaInP m
mediante recicla
aje de fotones, y en cé
élulas de dos uniones, aproveechando el acop
plamiento de ffotones. Ademáás hemos demo
ostrado experim
mentalmente q
que el efecto d
de las vaariaciones espectrales en estass células es menor, gracias al aacoplamiento d
de fotones, y, por lo tanto, su pproducción de energía es mayyor. Co
on todo esto hee adquirido unaa amplia experriencia multidis ciplinar en el d
desarrollo de esstructuras semiiconductoras III‐V y células so
olares de
e alta eficienciaa de varias teccnologías. Mi plan p
es transfeerir este conoccimiento en la fase de retornno de mi proyyecto Marie Cu
urie y se
eguidamente aaplicarlo al deesarrollo de cé
élulas solares de alta eficie
encia y/o cam
mpos adyacenttes como la optoelectrónica de co
omunicaciones o la iluminación
n de estado sólido. Resumen del C
Currículum V
Vitae: Web: http://scho
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olar.google.com
m/citations?hl=e
en&user=WiH__XPIAAAAJ Pu
ublicaciones: 299 en revistas intternacionales, 4
47 en conferen cias (24 ponencias, 5 ponencias invitadas). Índice h: 11 Se
elección de pub
blicaciones en reevista. M A. Steiner, J. F. Geisz, an
nd S. R. Kurtz,, �Back reflecctors based on
n buried Al2O3 for I. García, C. F. Kearns‐McCoy,, J. S. Ward, M. nhancement off photon recycling in monolith
hic, on‐substratte III‐V solar ce
ells,� Applied Physics Letterss, vol. 105, no. 13, p. 133507,, Sep. en
20
014. García, W. E. McMahon, A. G. Norman, J. Sim
mon, J. F. Geisz, D. J. Friedman, M. J. Romero o (2014) �Lattice‐Mismatched
d 0.7‐
R. M. France, I. G
V GaInAs Solar C
Cells Grown on GaAs Using Ga
aInP Compositioonally Graded B
Buffers�, IEEE Journal of Phottovoltaics, 4 pp
p. 190‐195. eV
nce, J. Kang, S.‐‐H. Wei, M. Oc hoa, D. J. Fried
dman, (2014), �
�Metamorphicc Ga0.76In0.24
4As/GaAs0.75Sb
b0.25 I. García, J. F. Geeisz, R. M. Fran
16, p: 074508.
tunnel junctions grown on GaAss substrates�, Journal of Appplied Physics, 11
2014) �Thin, hhigh quality GaInP compositio
onally graded bbuffer layers gro
own at high growth I. García, R. M. FFrance, J. F. Geeisz, J. Simon (2
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rates for metamo
orphic III‐V solaar cell applicatio
ons�, Journal oof Crystal Grow
wth, 393, pp: 64
4‐69. nhanced extern
nal radiative eff
fficiency for 20.8% efficient siingle‐
J. F. Geisz, M. A.. Steiner, I. Garrcía, S. R. Kurtzz, D. J. Friedmaan (2013), �En
junction GaInP so
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etters, 103, p. 0041118. I. Garcia, I. Rey‐‐Stolle, B. Galiaana, C. Algora ((2009), �A 32 .6% efficient laattice‐matched dual‐junction ssolar cell working at 1000 suns�, pplied Physics LLetters, 94, p. 0
053509. Ap
Paatentes os Algora, Mathieu Baudrit, Ignnacio Rey‐Stolle
e (P5817EPPC),, �Method Im plemented In A
A Computer For The Iváán García, Pilarr Espinet, Carlo
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ns�, 5‐4‐2010, UPM Prremios Prremio Extraordiinario de Docto
orado, por la Un
niversidad Polittécnica de Madrid (2011). Prremio Extraordiinario Fin de Caarrera, por la Un
niversidad de V
Valladolid (2004
4). Trrabajo en centro
os extranjeros. Co
ontrato Fulbrigght para realizaación de investigación post‐ddoctoral en el National Rene
ewable Energy Laboratory (G
Golden, CO, Esttados Un
nidos) � 2012‐‐2013. (
Europea
a): Proyecto �
�METACELLS�
� para realizació
ón de investigaación post‐docttoral en el Nattional Prrograma Marie Curie � IOF (Unión Re
enewable Energgy Laboratory (Golden, CO, Esttados Unidos) �
� 2013‐2015.
Prrograma Nacion
nal FPU: estanccia en Phillips U
Universitat (Maarburg, Alemania), Julio‐Octub
bre 2007. Objettivo: estudio de
el ordenamientto en GaaInP crecido po
or MOVPE. Se
elección de partticipación en prroyectos y conttratos con emp resas: �Full Spectrum:
�
: A new PV wavve making more
e efficient use of the solar spectrum�, Unió
ón Europea ‐ Prrograma de Energías No Nucleeares de
e la Unión Europea, VI P. Marcco, Noviembre 2
2003 a Noviem
mbre 2008 �Producción en
�
Isofotón de céélulas solares IIII‐V multiunión ccon eficiencias del 35 % a 100
00 soles�, ISOFFOTON, S.A., Fe
ebrero 2006 �
� Julio 20
007 �Simulación de �
células solares de concentración�, Abengoaa Solar New Technologies, S. A
A., Febrero 20009 ‐ Febrero 201
10 �F‐PACE: Found
�
dational Program
m to Advance C
Cell Efficiency�
�, US Departme
ent of State, Enero 2011 � Occtubre 2014. Dirección de trab
bajos de formacción UPM), 1 Trabajo
o Fin de Masterr (IES‐UPM) y 2 proyectos de in
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NREL � Estadoss Unidos) 1 Proyecto Fin dee Carrera (IES‐U
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Infformation‐theo
oretic limits of ccommunication
n systems unde r realistic assum
mptions Resumen de laa Memoria: Drr. Koch conductted his undergraduate and grraduate studiess in Electrical En
ngineering from
m 1998‐2004 annd his doctoral studies from 2
2004‐
20
009, both at ETTH Zurich (Switzerland). From
m 2010‐2012, hhe was a Marie Curie Researrch Fellow at tthe University of Cambridge (UK). Fu
urthermore, hee was a researcch intern at Bell Labs (Murrayy Hill, NJ) in 20
004 and at Univ
versitat Pompeeu Fabra (Spain
n) in 2007. Dr. Koch joined the Univeersidad Carlos III de Madrid (SSpain) in 2012 aas a Visiting Prrofessor. He is currently a Maarie Curie Invesstigator at the ssame un
niversity. Drr. Koch is an exp
pert in informaation theory and
d his work has ccovered various topics in this area, including g wireless comm
munications, on
n‐chip co
ommunications, quantization and samplingg, communicattion with disccrete signal co
onstellations, aand informatio
on theory at finite blocklength. He aims at realisttic limits, takin
ng the practica l limitations in
n communicatio
on systems intto account. For example, wirreless co
ommunication channels are typically analyyzed by assum
ming that the receiving term
minals are aw
ware of the ch
hannel propagation ch
haracteristics. H
However, in praactical commun
nication system
ms, such knowle
edge is a priori not available bbut must be obttained, for exam
mple, byy transmitting p
pilot symbols. IIn his work, Drr. Koch takes thhe overhead du
ue to channel e
estimation intoo account, thereby providing more re
ealistic fundameental limits. Hee further incorp
porates hardwaare limitations into his work, ttaking the loss due to low‐pre
ecision quantization orr limitations on the signal consstellation into a
account. Inter alia, Dr. Kocch's research cu
urrently concerrns the informa tion‐theoretic limits of short‐p
packet wirelesss communicatio
ons. Indeed, mo
ost of the current inforrmation‐theoreetic analyses prrovide asymptootic results in the t limit as the
e length of thee employed errror‐correcting codes c
tends to infinity. As we move towards next‐ge
eneration wirelless communication systems (referred to as �5G�), such
h analyses may have lim
mited significan
nce, since emeerging applicatio
ons in 5G mayy require the exchange e
of short packets. Thhus, more refin
ned analyses of o the acchievable data rates as a functtion of the codeword length aand a given tarrget probability of error are reequired. In his w
work, Dr. Koch aims at information‐th
heoretic limits that help bette
er understand the fundamental tradeoff between spatial ddiversity, spatia
al multiplexing, and co
ost of channel eestimation. Resumen del C
Currículum V
Vitae: To
obias Koch receeived his M.Sc. degree in elecctrical engineerring (with distin
nction) in 2004 and his Ph.D. degree in electtrical engineeriing in 20
009, both from ETH Zurich, Sw
witzerland. From
m June 2010 unntil May 2012, he was a Marie Curie Intra‐Euuropean Resea
arch Fellow with the Un
niversity of Cam
mbridge, UK. H
He was also a research intern at Bell Labs, M
Murray Hill, NJ in 2004 and att Universitat Po
ompeu Fabra (UPF), Sp
pain, in 2007. H
He joined the U
Universidad Carlos III de Madr id (UC3M), Spaain, in June 201
12 as Profesor VVisitante. Since
e June 2013 he is an Investigador Marrie Curie with U
UC3M. pert in informaation theory and
d his work has ccovered various topics in this area, including g wireless comm
munications, on
n‐chip Drr. Koch is an exp
co
ommunications, quantization and sampling,, communicatioon with discrete signal consttellations, the development of message‐paassing alggorithms for co
ontinous‐time ssynchronization
n, and informattion theory at ffinite blockleng
gth. He has co‐aauthored 10 jo
ournal articles in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and
d 24 conferenc e articles in re
efereed confere
ence publicatioons. In addition
n, he was inviteed to prresent his workk at 7 conferencces. Drr. Koch was aw
warded a Fellow
wship for Prosp
pective Researcchers from the Swiss National Science Foun dation (which he turned dow
wn), a Marie Curie Intraa‐European Felllowship for Career Developm
ment, and a Maarie Curie Caree
er Integration G
Grant. He is co
o‐author of a poster that won the Best Poster Awarrd at the IEEE C
Communicationn Theory Worksshop in 2013 and co‐author oof a paper that won the 2013
3 IEEE Sw
weden VT‐COM
M‐IT Joint Chapter Best Studentt Conference Paaper Award. Drr. Koch is particcipating or has participated in
n 10 research pprojects: 1 fund
ded by the Com
munidad de Maadrid, 1 by the Spanish Ministtry of Ecconomy and Co
ompetitiveness, 2 by the Spanish Ministry of SScience and Inn
novation, 4 by tthe European CCommission, 1 b
by the Isaac Newton Trrust, and 1 by tthe Swedish Reesearch Council. He is or wass principal inve
estigator in 3 of these projectts. He is curren
ntly directing or o co‐
directing 3 Ph.D. theses and hass directed or co
o‐directed 1 Ph..D. thesis, 2 Maaster's theses, a
and 3 undergradduate projects or internships.
Drr. Koch was an invited speakerr at the second and fourth Inteernational Sym
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Te
echnologies (ISA
ABEL) in 2009 and 2011, resspectively, at tthe 9th Annuall Information Theory T
and Appplications Worrkshop (ITA), at the International Wo
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mmunication Syystems. He orgganized the speecial session �Wireless �
communications att finite blockle
ength� at the 11th on
International Sym
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Wireless Commu
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High‐Frequency A
Acoustic Lasers for Sensing and Time‐Keepingg Applications
Resumen de laa Memoria: Du
uring the first 88 of my 11 yeaars of experiencce in research I was focused in exploring an
nd optimizing aalternatives for improving the light em
mission efficien
ncy of Silicon (SSi) based materrials and photoonic structures fabricated usin
ng CMOS comppatible fabrication techniquess. The main goals were to obtain opticcal stimulated e
emission and la sing integrated
d in a Si photonics platform. Foollowing a time
eline, three werre my ubjects: main research su
Si nano
ostructures in different dielecttric matrices annd Si‐nanostructtures coupled to Erbium ions iin various diele
ectric matrices. 1. Si based light emittingg photonic wave
eguides for opttical amplification purposes. 2. Optical microcavities ((like light‐emittting Si based rinngs and disks and rare‐earth d
doped glass miccrosphere laserrs) integratables in a 3. m and sensing a
applications. Si chip for short‐range telecomm
nce 2011 my m
main research lin
ne has become
e cavity optomeechanics, which
h concerns the u
understanding and exploitatio
on of the interaction Sin
be
etween light an
nd mechanical objects on low
w‐energy scaless. In 2014, my ccoworkers and I demonstrateed the first optomechanical crrystal with localized aco
oustic modes aappearing in a full acoustic gapp, a work that h
has been published in Nature CCommunication
ns. In the samee year e demonstrated a self‐stabilizzed acoustic lasser driven by ooptical forces in
ntegrated in a Si chip, which ooperates at am
mbient conditions of we
temperature and
d pressure. Thee combined cha
aracteristics of this latter syste
em are expecte
ed to impact inntra‐chip time‐kkeeping and sensing ap
pplications, sincce high intensitty sound wavess can be conveerted to electricc signals when impinging piezzoelectric mate
erials. The results of this work are un
nder review in Nature Photon
nics since Octoober 2014 and I have been in
nvited to preseent them in an
n invited talk at the prrestigious confeerence Phononss 2015, to be he
eld in Nottingh am (UK) from 1
12th � 17th July 2015. nce I joined thee CNR Nanoscieence Insitute Piisa NEST in Ma rch 2014 I am aalso investigating optomechannical interactions in lasing devvices, Sin
su
uch as quantum
m‐cascade‐laserrs operating in tthe THz region and rare earth
h doped glass m
microsphere lassers. The idea iss to exploit thee very high electromagn
netic field inten
nsities achieved above threshhold and to obttain extremely high quality faactors by exploiting laser linew
width naarrowing. oncerning the simulation, fa brication and characterizatio
on of I have acquired wide experience in several experimental techniques co
ph
hotonic materiaals and structurres: ‐ Continu
uous wave and time resolved standard and m
micro‐ luminisce
ence spectrosco
opy. Optical gain and lossees measuremen
nts with Variabble Stripe Length, Shifting Exccitation Spot annd Pump and P
Probe techniqu
ues in ‐ mensional light‐eemitting wavegguides. planar and bidim
Optical characterizatiion of active and a passive phhotonic structu
ures (waveguid
des, microdisk and ring reso
onators, 1D and 2D ‐ hotonic crystal cavities, etc). ph
‐ Simulattion of photon
nic structures with FDTD annd BPM metho
ods (MEEP, BEAMPROP and FULLWAVE) and optomechaanical structures with FFEM methods (C
COMSOL). Litho
ographic mask ddesign (Tanner L‐Edit tools). Fabricaation of porous silicon sampless in electrochem
mical laboratory and subseque
ent thermal andd chemical trea
atments. ‐ ‐ Use of clean
n room facilitiess such as: e‐bea
am lithography,, UV photolitography, thermal evaporators, SScanning Electro
on Microscopy,, etc Currículum V
Vitae: Resumen del C
I ggraduated in Ph
hysics in the Un
niversity of La LLaguna in 20022 (mark 2.08/4 of Spanish stan
ndard scale). M
My Ph.D thesis w
was done undeer the su
upervision of Drr. Néstor E. Cap
puj (University o
of La Laguna) a nd prof. Lorenzzo Pavesi (University of Trentoo, Italy). An uno
official collaboration be
etween the gro
oups of both su
upervisors allow
wed me to perfform several extended stagess at the group of prof. Pavesi during my Ph..D. In de
ecember of 20006, I received tthe European P
Ph.D. degree frrom the Univerrsity of La Laguna with Sobressaliente Cum Laude, obtainingg the Ph
h.D Extraordinaary Award from the Experimen
ntal and Techniccal Sciences Divvision. Frrom December 2006 to May 20
008 I continued
d my research aat the Universitty of Trento with a post‐doctorral contract. In June 2008 I joiined the MIND group in the Electronics Depaartment of the University of Ba
arcelona (UB) aafter being awa
arded with a Juaan de la Cierva fellowsh
hip associated tto the FP6‐EU p
project LANCERR. M
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In September of f 2011 I joined the Catalan Institute of Nanooscience and N
Nanotechnology
y (ICN2). Soon afterwards, I w
was awarded w
with a Be
eatriu de Pinòs ‐ Mod. B post‐doctoral fellow
wship. This gran t is co‐financed
d by the Marie Curie‐COFUND D actions of the FP7‐EU programme an
nd by the Gen
neralitat de Cattalunya. I was appointed as the scientific coordinator of the ICN2 acttivities within the FP7‐EU prroject TA
AILPHOX. Sin
nce March of 2014 I am working as a Type III Researcheer at the CNR Nanoscience In
nstitute Pisa (N
NEST) (Italy) fin
nanced by the ERC‐
Ad
dvanced Grant SOULMAN. peer‐reviewed regular scientiffic articles, inde
exed and with relative qualityy index. 37 of them are in the 1st ‐ I have published 61 p
uartil of their rrespective areaa (n.a. the confference proceddings are not included here). In addition, I have published
d 5 indexed articles Qu
without relative quality index, 1
1 book chapter and 1 book. M
My works have rreceived 1234 ccitations accordding to GOOGLE SCHOLAR and
d 881 cittations according to ISI WEB O
OF SCIENCE. My h‐factor is 200 according to G
GOOGLE SCHOLAR and h=18 aaccording to ISI WEB OF SCIEN
NCE . Th
he average num
mber of citations/year during tthe last 5 years is 182 cit/year.. ‐ I have 556 participation
ns in congresse
es and 1 invitedd seminar. With
hin them there are 10 invited ttalks, 36 oral communicationss and 10
0 posters. Thesee have led to th
he publication o
of 28 papers in conference pro
oceedings. ‐ I have d
directed 1 Ph.D
D thesis in the U
UB and 1 Masteer Thesis in the BCN Photonicss Master. ‐ I have participated in 14 R&D&I projects fundeed in competitive calls, 6 of o them Europpean under different frameework prrogrammes. I w
was the main in
nvestigator of two t
GICSERV pprojects (Proyecctos de acceso a la instalacióón científico téccnica singular (ICTS) (
de
enominada �SSala Blanca integrada de micro
o y nanofabrica ción�) in collaaboration with the Microelecttronics Institute
e of Barcelona ((IMB‐
CN
NM). ‐ ed bu EU‐LLP) and �Maleta Pedagógica EC
CBI� I have also participatted in two teacching innovatioon projects � SceTGo (funde
(fu
unded by La Fundación la Caixxa), in which I co
ollaborated witth the Pedagogy Faculty of the
e UB as a physiccs expert. I am accredited as �Profesor �Profesor Lecctor� by the AQU‐
‐ �
Titullar� by the A
ANECA and as �Profesor �
Agrregado� and �
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Caatalunya. ‐ nal of I am reviewer in severral journals such as: Applied PPhysics Letters, Optics Express,, Journal of Lighhtwave and Tecchnology, Journ
Ap
pplied Physics, JJournal of Physsics D, Optical M
Materials, etc.