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Alfonso Carlosena obtained a degree in Physical Sciences with honors and a PhD from the University of Zaragoza in 1985 and 1989, respectively. From 1986 to 1992 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Zaragoza in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In October 1992 he joined the Public University of Navarre, first as an interim (tenure track) professor and then as a civil servant (profesor) in 1993. In March 2000 he was promoted to Full Professor in the Area of ​​Signal Theory and Communications. His has taught in both universities, in the first case with students of Physics and Industrial Engineering, and in the second with Telecommunications Engineering.

He has also been a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich) for two semesters (1999-90 and 1991-1992), visiting professor at the New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, NM) from June to August 1999, also enjoying a sabbatical stay (2004-2005) at the Connection One Center of the Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)

He has been a principal researcher or participated in a large number of competitive projects funded by the Government of Navarre, the Spanish Research Agency and European Programs. As an outcome, he is the author or co-author of over 150 scientific papers in indexed international journals and has attended and presented communications in a similar number of conferences in the areas of Microelectronics, Instrumentation and Signal Processing. He has supervised 12 doctoral theses already presented. He has been awarded five research “sexenios” and one in technology transfer by the Spanish Quality Agency (this is the maximum possible). He is included in the group of the 2% most referenced researchers in the world (Harvard Classification)

He has dedicated efforts to the transfer activity with companies, participating in or supervising Research and Development contracts for various companies, as well as collaborative projects. He has been principal researcher in projects with the companies Azkoyen (5 years), Nacesa-Piher (3 years), Seiko Epson (2 years), Acciona Windpower (2 years), GM Vending (2 years), Aldakin (2 years) . As a result of this activity, he is the author of 5 patents, 3 of them in exploitation.

Regarding university management, he has been Rector at the Public University of Navarre from June 2015 to June 2019, having also held the position of Vice-Rector for Research in the two previous terms from 2007 to 2015. He was also director of the UPNa Research Transfer Office (OTRI) (1995-1999) and President of the Doctoral Commission (2000-2001). He has participated in two statutory commissions, 2003 and 2010, as member and president respectively. By virtue of his positions, he has also been a member of the Steering Committee of the RIS3 in Navarra, and of its predecessor the "Modern Plan" (Regional Development Model of Navarra) in the period 2009 to 2019.

He has been a member of different teaching and research evaluation boards in ANECA, Andalusian Agency and UNIBASQ, also carrying out evaluations for many other national and foreign entities.

Dr. Jesús Villadangos Alonso, Graduated with a Degree in Physical Sciences from the University of the Basque Country (1991), obtained a Doctorate in Telecommunications Engineering in 1998 from the Public University of Navarra. COMETT fellow at CIM-Fabrik Hannover (Germany) and researcher at the IFW (Institut für Fertigungstechnik und Werkzeugmaschinen) of the Universität Hannover from 1992 to 1994. Researcher at the Electronics Department of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of the Basque Country from 1994 to 1996. Researcher within the Distributed Systems Research Group of the Public University of Navarra from 1996 to the present.

He began his teaching activities in 1995 as Associate Professor at the ETSIT of the University of the Basque Country and in the Telematics Engineering Area of ​​the Automation Department of the Public University of Navarra. He obtained the position of Full Professor at the University in the Telematics Engineering Area in 2001. He is currently Full Professor in the Area of ​​Computer Languages ​​and Systems at the Public University of Navarra.

As a teacher he has taught subjects in the field of Telematics Engineering, Software Engineering and Business Management: Networks, systems and services; Computer architecture, operating systems, computer systems management, project management, information systems and risk analysis of information systems, among others.

The current lines of research address embedded and embedded systems, distributed algorithms, software quality models and semantic web/ontologies, all of these topics with a strong interest in product development.

In the field of University Management, he participated in the management of the Department as Deputy Director and Secretary, as well as Director of the Information Systems Area attached to the Vice-Rectorate for Economy, Planning and Quality.

Rafael Rodríguez Trías, PhD in Physical Sciences from the University of Zaragoza (1991), joined UPNA in October 1993, having held the positions of Associate Professor (1993 - 2000), University Professor (2001 - 2019) and , since 2019, University Professor. Until 2013 he has combined this dedication with the direction of a research group in Surface Engineering and Nanostructured Materials at the AIN technology center.

Both his teaching and his research have focused on materials technologies and, especially, on the processes of surface modification, ion implantation, plasma treatments, thin film deposition, nanostructuring and functionalization of materials for tribological, biomedical, electronic applications. and optics.

He belongs to the Materials and Manufacturing Engineering Research Group and the INAMAT2-Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics of UPNA.

He teaches in the Degree in Biomedical Engineering, in the Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering and in the Master's Degree in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering. He has directed 6 Doctoral Theses, 20 Master's Thesis and 5 Final Projects.

He has been Academic Director of the Master's Degree in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering (2007-2010) and Director of the Higher Technical School of Industrial, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering (2014-2020).

He is the author of more than 100 publications in international scientific journals and more than 60 communications at congresses and conferences.

He has participated in more than 15 National R&D Plan projects, including CONSOLIDER FUNCOAT, and more than 20 European Projects, as well as in more than 50 projects with industrial companies, including two CENIT projects.

He is listed as an inventor on 5 patents, one of them European.

Angela was born in Milan (Italy). She completed her bachelor's degree in mathematics at Sapienza University of Rome, before earning her PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Navarra (Spain) in 2005, working on the simulation of Hele-Shaw cells. She continued her scientific studies with two postdoctoral stays at the INRIA and the CNRS (France), developing a new discontinuous Galerkin method for wave phenomena. In 2008 she returned in Navarra and started working at CITEAN, solving complex engineering problems through soft computing techniques. At the same time, she was visiting professor at the UPNA in Department of mathematics and Computer Engineering. In 2012 she joins CEMITEC, the multidisciplinary centre of technologies for Industry, as research specialist in computational methods and data modelling. From 2018 she coordinates the Artificial intelligence and Data Analytics Area at NAITEC, where she develops computer vision and data-driven based solution for the industrial sector. She is assistant professor at the UPNA in the Department of Statistics, Informatics and Mathematics and member of the Artificial Intelligence and Approximate reasoning group (GIARA).

Aerospace engineering professional with research and industry experience in spacecraft, unmanned aircraft, software engineering, and robotics. R&D background is in fields of astrodynamics and relative navigation of autonomous aircraft.

Founder and CEO of Alerion, a company that offers fully automated proprietary drone solutions through intelligent autonomous robotic platforms. Previously cofounded Black Swift Technologies, a custom avionics design and integration company that specializes in small unmanned aircraft systems.

Doctoral and post-doctoral research at the University of Michigan and the University of Colorado. Developed and implemented novel analytical perturbation methods for low-energy spacecraft mission analysis and design. This research unveiled a method for designing space missions that require minimal fuel by taking advantage of inherent perturbations of dynamical systems.