Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Campus of International Excellence Southern Catalonia
NEPHOS RESEARCH GROUP

MEMBERS A2

Antonio Lazaro

He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1994 and 1998, respectively. 

He then joined the faculty of UPC, where he currently teaches a course on microwave circuits and antennas. Since July 2004, he is a Full-Time Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain. 

His research interests are microwave device modeling, on-wafer noise measurements, monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), low phase noise oscillators, MEMS, RFID, UWB and microwave systems.

Line of Research: WirelessSensLab

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3160-5777

E-mail: antonioramon.lazaro(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Tel: 977 55 8686

David Girbau

He was awarded a BSc in Telecommunication Engineering, a MSc in Electronics Engineering, and a doctorate in Telecommunication by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain, in 1998, 2002 and 2006, respectively. 

From February 2001 to September 2007 he was a Research Assistant at UPC. From September 2005 to September 2007 he was a part-time Assistant Professorat Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Since October 2007 he has been a full-time professor at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona, Spain. 

His research interests include microwave devices and systems, with an emphasis on UWB, RFIDs, RF-MEMS and wireless sensors.

Line of Research: WirelessSensLab

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7995-5536

E-mail: david.girbau(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Tel: 977 55 8686

Ramon Villarino

He was awarded a PhD in Telecommunications from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, 2004), a MSc in Telecommunications Engineering from the UPC (2000) and a BSc as a Technical Telecommunications Engineer from the Ramon Llull University (1994). 

He enjoyed a Juan de la Cierva scholarship (2006-2008) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and worked as an engineer at the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (2005). His academic activity began in 2006 as Assistant Professor (2006-08) and from 2009 to date as Professor (Lecturer/Associate) at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). 

His research activity is focused on microwave radiometry, manufacture of metamaterial structures, radio frequency identification (RFID), data sensing via low-power consumption wireless communications and vehicular radars applications. Currently, his main lines of research have pointed on RFID technologies for biosensors and mmWave applications

Line of Research: WirelessSensLab

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9692-8943

E-mail: ramon.villarino(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Tel: 977 558 686

Nicolau Cañellas

He develops his work activity as Professor at the Rovira Virgili University. His teaching activity is focused on the Degree in Telecommunications Systems and Services.

He started his scientific activities in digital electronics, particularly microprocessors and reconfigurable hardware. His works in hardware / software co-design for biometric pattern recognition issues got funding through a project of the Ministry of Science and Technology: DELFIN - Development of a fingerprint co-processing system (SEG2004-05592); and finally resulted in my doctoral thesis entitled SPECIFIC HARDWARE DESING FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION AND FINGERPRINT MATCHING.

Later, around 2006, his research interests focused on signal processing topics, where he has been working on developing advanced tools for 1H-NMR signal fitting and quantification, along with data analysis and classification methods to facilitate the biomarker discovery using metabolic techniques. The first works focused on the analysis of signals corresponding to lipoproteins and routines for the classification of cardiovascular risk. Next, he moved on to the analysis of signals from low molecular weight metabolites; his work in this area directly helped two URV students to obtain their PhD, one in the development of line-shape-fitting techniques and the other in machine-learning methods for the detection and correction of suboptimal quantifications. Part of the tools developed have been made available to the scientific community in the form of an open package for automatic profiling using 1H-NMR data (http://github.com/danielcanueto/rDolphin).

In recent years he has started to collaborate in the generation of processing algorithms for obtaining and treating metabolic images using Laser Desorption Ionization Mass Spectrometry.

And, going back in a certain way to his beginnings, recently he is also working on the application of microprocessors and reconfigurable hardware and their application on the Internet of Things.

Line of Research: WirelessSensLab

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9692-8943

E-mail: nicolau.canyellas(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Tel: 977 558 686

Postdoc students

Marc Lazaro

He was born in Tarragona, Spain, in 1995. He received the B.S. degree in industrial electronics and automation engineering and the M.S. degree in electronic systems engineering and technology (METSE) from Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, in 2017 and 2018, respectively, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electronics. 

Up until now, he has been accumulated professional experience as a Data Acquisition Engineer and as an Embedded Systems Developer. His research interests include semipassive RFID technologies based on backscattering communication and novel applications based on millimeter wave identification (MMID).

Line of Research: WirelessSensLab

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8930-1170

E-mail: marc.lazaro(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Tel: 977 558 686

Technician Staff:

Laia Masip

Line of Research: WirelessSensLab

E-mail: laia.masip(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

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