José A. Lázaro

José A. Lázaro is Associate Professor at the Optical Communications Group (GCO) and Vice-Dean of International Relations of the School of Telecommunication Engineering in Barcelona (ETSETB) at UPC for more than 10 years. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 1999 for his research work in Erbium doped waveguide amplifiers. Prior to his current position, he was Ramon-y-Cajal Researcher at UPC, Senior Researcher at the Optical Transmission and Broadband technologies Laboratory (TOYBA) of the Aragon Institute for Engineering Research (I3A) (Spain) and R&D Engineer in ALCATEL-LUCENT (now NOKIA) in Stuttgart (Germany) at the Dept. of Photonic Circuits and Devices and the High-Speed Transmission Systems. He has been: participating in several European projects (e-Photon/One, BONE); leading WPs at EU projects (EURO-FOS, SARDANA); leading UPC’s participation at ERASMUS+ project COLIBRI; and leading Spanish research projects (TEYDE, SUNSET). He has authored above 180 reviewed international publications and 18 patents. He is coordinating HORIZON-JU-SNS project "AI-Enhanced fibre-Wireless Optical 6G network in support for Connected mobility" (6G-EWOC) https://6g-ewoc.eu/ and Spanish Infrastructure “Evolution of infrastructure (ultra-low Latency) and Expanded mobile system (mmWave) towards 6G-AI NeTworks” (ELEGANT).