Department: Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica, de Comunicaciones y de Sistemas (DIEECS)

Universidad: University of Oviedo

Area: Signal Theory and Communications

Research group: TSC-UNIOVI Teoría de la Señal y Comunicaciones

Email: fernandezvalvaro@uniovi.es

Doctor by the Universidad de Oviedo with the thesis Desarrollo de técnicas de análisis de síntesis de arrays alimentados espacialmente para aplicaciones emergentes de campo cercano"/ "development of techniques for the analysis and synthesis of spatially-fed arrays for emerging applications in near-field 2021. Supervised by Dr. Manuel Arrebola Baena, Dr. Marcos Rodríguez Pino.

Álvaro F. Vaquero received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication engineering from the Universidad de Oviedo (UO), Gijón, Spain, in 2015, 2017, and 2021, respectively. From 2016 to 2021, he was a Research Assistant with the Signal Theory and Communications Area, UO. He was a Visiting Researcher with the Antennas and Propagation Group, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal, in 2017, 2021, and 2023. In December 2021, he joined the Department of Signals, Systems, and Radiocommunications, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, as a Postdoctoral Researcher, before returning to UO in 2022. Since September 2025, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Signal Theory and Communications Area, UO. He has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. His research interests include efficient techniques for the analysis and optimization of spatially fed arrays, the design of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), and additive manufacturing antennas at mm-Wave frequencies. He was a recipient of a Postdoctoral Fellowship financed by the Spanish Government in 2023. He has also received the 2022 Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award from UO and the 2021 National Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis on Telecommunication Engineering for 5G Innovation for Sustainable Connectivity. He was a recipient of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Fellowship (APSF) in 2023.

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