Dr.-Ing. Jose F. Monserrat (H-index 21) received his MSc. degree with High Honors and Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He was the recipient of the First Regional Prize of Engineering Studies in 2003 for his outstanding student record receiving also the Best Thesis Prize from the UPV in 2008. In 2009 he was awarded with the best young researcher prize of Valencia. In 2016 he received the merit medal from the Spanish royal academy of engineering, in the young researcher category. He is currently an associate professor in the Communications Department of the UPV. His current research focuses on the design of future 5G wireless systems and their performance assessment. He has been involved in several European Projects, being especially significant his participation in NEWCOM, PROSIMOS, WINNER+, METIS/METIS-II where he led the simulation activities, and currently 5G-XCAST. He also participated in 2010 in one external evaluation group within ITU-R on the performance assessment of the candidates for the future family of standards IMT-Advanced. He co-edited two special issues in IEEE Communications Magazine on IMT-Advanced and 5G technologies and is co-editor of the Wiley book “Mobile and wireless communications for IMT-Advanced and beyond” and the Cambridge book “5G Mobile and Wireless Communications Technology”. Jose Monserrat is senior member of the IEEE, manages around 0.5 M€ yearly budget, holds 6 patents and has published more than 50 journal papers. Currently the group headed by Prof. Jose F. Monserrat consists of 5 Postdoctoral fellows, 8 PhD students and 2 Master students.
