Montse Nájar received the Electrical Engineering degree and the Ph D. from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1991 and 1996, respectively. In 1992, she joined the Department of Signal Theory and Communication of the UPC. Since 1997 she is an Associate Professor at the UPC, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Digital Communications and Signal Processing. Since 2005 is research associate in the CTTC (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicació de Catalunya).

Her current research interests include signal processing with application to communication systems, array signal processing and location in wireless systems. She has participated in several IST and Eureka European projects as well as national public and private funded projects. She has been guest editor of the Eurasip Signal Processing journal. She is reviewer of the IEEE and the Eurasip Signal Processing journals.