Dr. Mr. Leandro Juan Llácer

Head of SiCoMo

Leandro Juan-Llácer was born in Albatera, Alicante, Spain, in 1967. He received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1993, and the Ph.D. in Communications Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain, in 1998. In 1994, he joined the UPV’s Department of Signal Theory and Communications, where he was an Associate Professor (AP) of Electromagnetics from 1995 to 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT)’s Department of Information Technologies and Communications. He has also been participating in COST actions 259 and 273. His research activities have focused on the characterisation and modelling of radio wave propagation in mobile communication systems. Dr. Juan-Llácer was awarded the Doctoral Prize by the Telecommunications Engineering Association of Spain for his Ph.D. dissertation on urban wave propagation and channel characteristics, especially for mobile communications.