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Curriculum Vitae Alejandro Alvarez Melcón CURRICULUM VITAE ALEJANDRO ALVAREZ MELCÓN Office Address: Home Address: Technical University Cartagena c/Soldado Rosique, 1-13D Telecommunications ES-30205 Cartagena, Murcia, Spain Campus Muralla del Mar s/n Tel: +34-968-08 3652 ES-30202, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain Mobile: +34-630 473 808 Tel: +34-968-32 5315 Fax: +34-968-32 5973 Personal BIRTH DATE: January 4th 1965; NATIONALITY: Spanish Citizen. MARITAL STATUS: Married. Professional PUBLIC URL: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tu3FxiUAAAAJ PUBLIC URL: https://publons.com/researcher/1282455/alejandro-alvarez-melcon PUBLIC URL: http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=6603078652 PUBLIC URL: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6423-8873 PUBLIC URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/38270691900 PUBLIC URL: http://www.tic.upct.es/index.php/alejandro-alvarez-melcon PUBLIC URL: https://personas.upct.es/en/profile/alejandro.alvarez Education LABORATOIRE D’ELECTROMAGNÉTISME ET D’ACOUSTIQUE (LEMA), ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE. Lausanne, Switzerland. PhD. Thesis, EPFL, No. 1901, 4th December 1998. Thesis subject: "Applications of the integral equation technique to the analysis and synthesis of multilayered printed shielded microwave circuits and cavity backed antennas". DOI: 10.5075/epfl-thesis-1901. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MADRID Madrid, Spain. Master of Science in Telecommunication/Electronic Engineering, January 1991. Diploma subject: "Spiral Antenna for a warfare equipment". Work Experience Alejandro Alvarez Melcón 2 October 1999–present ELECTROMAGNETICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA Cartagena, Murcia, Spain Professor at the Telecommunications School. Project manager in National and European projects with the European Space Agency ESA/ESTEC. Head of Elec- tromagnetics and Telecommunications Research Group at the University. Analy- sis and design of satellite communication antennas. Printed microstrip antennas. Printed microwave circuits. Waveguide circuits. Analysis and design of active antennas and radiofrequency circuits. Analysis and design of wire antennas for military applications. Teaching activities: I have participated in the teaching activities of the depart- ment, in the following courses: • Systems and Circuits: Academic years 1999 to 2010. • Electromagnetic Fields: Academic years 2000 to present. • Radar: Academic years 2002 to present. • Communications Laboratory: Academic years 2002 to 2004. • Microwave Circuits: Academic years 2011 to present. October 2017–September 2018 UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA,DAVIS APPLIED MICRO/NANO ELECTROMAGNETICS RESEARCH LABORATORY Davis, United States of America Invited professor at the Applied Micro/Nano Electromagnetics Research Labora- tory. Research on New Non-Reciprocal Devices Using Spatio-Temporal Modula- tions. July 2010–September 2010 ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE MONTREAL POLY-GRAMES RESEARCH CENTER Montreal, Canada Invited professor at the Poly-grames research center. Metamaterial Structures with Application to Microwave Circuits and Leaky Wave Antennas. January 1995–September 1999 LABORATOIRE D’ELECTROMAGNÉTISME ET D’ACOUSTIQUE (LEMA), ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE. Lausanne, Switzerland. Project responsible, Electrical department, Electromagnetics laboratory. Analysis and design of satellite communication antennas. Printed microstrip circuits and Alejandro Alvarez Melcón 3 antennas. Collaboration in several ESA/ESTEC projects. Responsible for the fol- lowing international industrial projects: 1-Conformal array antenna, 2-Integrated CAD tool for waveguide components, 3-Modeling of wide band dual polarization antenna arrays. Teaching activities: I have participated in the teaching activities of the depart- ment, in the following courses: • Electromagnetism: Academic years 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99. • Antennas: Academic year 1996-1997. • Microwave engineering: Academic years 1997-98, 1998-99. June 1993–December 1994 EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY/ESTEC Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Subcontractor for Alcatel Espacio, Madrid, Spain. Microwave Engineer, Space Division. Analysis and design of microwave filters for satellite communications. Software development under UNIX. Collaboration in ESA/ESTEC projects. Par- ticipation in the following international industrial projects: 1-Advanced filter de- sign for space applications, 2-Advanced dual mode filter design for space appli- cations. April 1991–March 1993 EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY/ESTEC Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering. Develop- ment of numerical models for the analysis and design of microwave circuits and antennas. Software development under UNIX. Participation in the following in- ternational research project: Analysis and design of planar transmission lines and microwave filters. Computer Operating systems: VMS, MS-DOS, VM/OS1, UNIX. Knowledge Programming Languages: Pascal, Fortran, Basic, C, C++. Hardware: PC, VAX, HP-VUE, IBM 3090. Knowledge of general purpose software and CAD packages. Languages Spanish: Mother tongue. English: Fluent. French: Fluent. Dutch: Basics Additional Programming in C++. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. 14–18 October Courses 1996, 40 Hours. Alejandro Alvarez Melcón 4 Recent Advances in Numerical Techniques for Electromagnetics. Ecole Polytech- nique Federale de Lausanne-University of Granada. 12–14 September 1995, 24 Hours. Effective technical writing. European Space Agency, ESA/ESTEC. October 1991, 40 Hours. Protección de Resultados de Investigación y su Transferencia al Sistema Produc- tivo. Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena. December 2003, 32 Hours. Participation in innovative educational program. Universidad Politécnica de Carta- gena. Telecommunications School. October 2005 - September 2006 (12 months). Participation in innovative educational program. Universidad Politécnica de Carta- gena. Telecommunications School. October 2006 - September 2007 (12 months). Nuevo Paradigma de la Educación Superior. Universidad Politécnica de Carta- gena. July 2008, 20 Hours. Participation in innovative educational program. Universidad Politécnica de Carta- gena. Telecommunications School. Academic courses 2009-2014. Awards Special JINA award to the best scientific contribution to the JINA’98 international symposium on antennas, November 1998: A. Alvarez-Melcón and Juan R. Mosig. "An Efficient Technique for the Rigorous Analysis of Shielded Circuits and Antennas of Arbitrary Shapes". JINA’98 Inter- national Symposium on Antennas. 17-19 November 1998, pp. 57-60, Nice, France. 2) URSI Young Scientist award for the following contribution to the XXVI General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science, August 1999: A. Alvarez-Melcón and Juan R. Mosig. "The Summation by Parts Technique: A Novel Procedure for the Convergence Acceleration of Series Arising in Electro- magnetic Problems". XXVI General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science. 13-21 August 1999, pp. 104, No. B4.P.24, Toronto, Canada. 3) COIT/AEIT award to the best Doctoral Thesis of the year 1998/1999, in Basic In- formation and Communication Technologies (May 2000): A. Alvarez Melcón. "Applications of the Integral Equation Technique to the Analysis and Synthesis of Multilayered Printed Shielded Microwave Circuits and Cavity Backed Antennas". Thesis No. 1901. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lau- sanne, Switzerland, December 1998. DOI: 10.5075/epfl-thesis-1901. https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/32378. 4) Second Rosina Ribalta/Fundacion EPSON award to the best Doctoral Thesis Project of the year 2003/2004: Student: Jose Luis Gómez Tornero Advisor: A. Alvarez Melcón. "Análisis de modos de fuga en estructuras planares apantalladas lateralmente y Alejandro Alvarez Melcón 5 diseño de nuevas antenas Leaky-Wave en tecnología híbrida impresa-apantallada". Technical University Cartagena, June 7th, 2004. 5) CAM-Telecoforum Award to the Most Innovative Technological Development of 2005: A. Alvarez Melcon. "New Transversal Filter Concept with Increased Se- lectivity for Application in Communication Systems" Technical University Carta- gena, March 17th, 2005. 6) COIT-VODAFONE award to the best Doctoral Thesis of the year 2006 in Ad- vanced Mobile Communications (May 2006): Student: Jose Luis Gómez Tornero Advisor: A. Alvarez Melcón. "Análisis de modos de fuga en estructuras planares apantalladas lateralmente y diseño de nuevas antenas Leaky-Wave en tecnología híbrida impresa-apantallada". Technical University Cartagena, May 20th, 2005. 7) A. Alvarez Melcon. Elevated to the grade of Senior Member of the IEEE, March 20th, 2007. 8) A. Alvarez Melcon. Accreditation to the grade of Full Professorship by the Span- ish Mininstry of Education, December 10th, 2008. 9) UPCT award to the best Doctoral Thesis in Engineering and Architecture for the year 2008 (January 2009): Student: Fernando Quesada Pereira Advisor: A. Alvarez Melcón. "Avances en Técnicas Numéricas de Resolución de Ecuaciones Integrales en Elec- tromagnetismo". Technical University Cartagena, September 12th, 2007. 10) APMC 2010 Prize to the best scientific contribution to the Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, December 2010: A. Shahvarpour, A. Alvarez Melcon, C. Caloz. "Anisotropic Meta-substrate Conical- Beam Leaky-Wave Antenna". APMC’2010 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference. 7-10 December 2010, Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan. 11) UPCT award to the best Doctoral Thesis in Engineering and Architecture for the year 2009 (December 2010): Student: Fco. Javier Pérez Soler. Advisor: A. Alvarez Melcón and F. Quesada Pereira. "Investigación
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