Israel Arnedo

Israel Arnedo (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Tudela, Spain, in 1980. He received the Telecommunication Engineering, M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the Public University of Navarre (UPNA), Pamplona, Spain, in 2004, 2007, and 2010, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Department, UPNA, where he has managed and participated in research projects supported by the Spanish Government, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the European Commission, and private companies. Since 2018, he has been the Vice-Dean of the School of Engineering, UPNA. He is the Co-Founder of TAFCO Metawireless S.L., a spin-off company of UPNA. He holds two international patents successfully licensed. He has authored or coauthored more than 75 articles. His current research interests include microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz fields that include periodic structure devices, coupled-mode theory, inverse-scattering synthesis, material characterization, and their applications in ultra-wideband (UWB) systems, space and satellite technology, biomedical engineering research, and industrial products. Dr. Arnedo was a recipient of the Formación de Profesorado Universitario (FPU) Grant of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science to support his doctoral research, the José Castillejo Grant of the Spanish Ministry of Education to support his post-doctoral research stay at the Institut d’Électronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN), Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France, in 2012, and the Junior Research Award of UPNA for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in engineering in 2014. He is a reviewer for several international scientific journals.