Lluís Jofre

Lluís Jofre received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering (telecommunication engineering) from the UPC in 1978 and 1982, respectively. From 1979 to 1980, he was a Research Assistant with the Electrophysics Group, UPC, where he was involved in the analysis and near-field measurement of antennas and scatterers. From 1981 to 1982, he was with the Ecole Superieure d’Electricite Paris, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, where he was involved in microwave antenna design and imaging techniques for medical and industrial applications. Since 1982, he has been with the Communications Department, Telecommunication Engineering School, UPC, as an Associate Professor and then has been a full Professor since 1989. From 1986 to 1987, he was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, where he was involved in antenna near-field measurements and electromagnetic imaging. From 1989 to 1994, he was the Director of the Telecommunication Engineering School, UPC, and from 1994 to 2000, he was the UPC Vice-Rector for academic planning. From 2000 to 2001, he was a Visiting Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, the University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, where he was involved in reconfigurable antennas and microwave sensing of civil engineering structures. He was the Director of the Catalan Research Foundation from 2002 to 2004 and the Director of the UPC-Telefonica Chair on Information Society Future Trends since 2003. He was a Principal Investigator of the 2008–2013 Spanish Sensing Lab Consolider Project, the General Director and then Secretary for Catalan Universities and Research from 2011 to 2016, and a Research Leader of the 2017–2020 ComSense Lab Maria de Maeztu Project. He has authored more than 200 scientific and technical papers, reports, and chapters in specialized volumes. His current research interests include antennas, electromagnetic scattering and imaging, system miniaturization for wireless, and sensing industrial and bio-applications from microwaves to terahertz frequencies.