Ignacio Llamas-Garro

Dr. Llamas-Garro is an expert in the field of device engineering and implementation from design to fabrication, applied to wireless communications and sensors; including RF and microwave circuits with special dedication to reconfigurable designs using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and semiconductor diode based components. 3D printing of microwave passive components, inkjet printing of planar circuits, and micro/nano fabricated optical sensors for the detection of hazardous liquids and gases.

Ignacio Llamas-Garro obtained his PhD from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom in 2003, and has been with the CTTC since 2010. Previous appointments include a postdoctoral stay at the Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, followed as a BK-21 Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Seoul National University, Korea. He was an Associate Professor with the Large Millimeter Telescope at the National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics INAOE, Mexico, and a Juan de la Cierva Fellow with the Signal Theory and Communications Department at the Technical University of Catalonia UPC, Barcelona. To date, he has advised six graduated PhD students and several graduated BSc and MSc student dissertations. Co-author of the book “frequency measurement technology”, Artech House, Norwood, MA, USA, 2018. Co-author of over 100 papers in refereed journals and conferences. Principal investigator of the projects: Agentsensor, SensorQ, MiniFIDS, 3DMUX, Nanowave.

Dr. Llamas-Garro received the NATO Science Partnership Prize 2018, as the NATO country project director, project: “compact sensor system for unmanned aerial vehicles, ref. G4809”. He has given presentations by invitation on topics related to micromachining of structures, sensors and reconfigurable circuits at the companies NEC Corporation Central Research Laboratories, Nakahara-Ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, 211-8666, Japan, in 2010, and Toyota Central R & D Labs. Inc., Aichi-ken, Japan, in 2006. Co-author of the best paper award at the ISITC 2018 conference in Jeonju Korea. TPC member of the Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, Hong Kong, China, 2008. Antenna Design and Measurement International Conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia 2019. IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Millimeter Wave Integration Technologies, IMWS, 2011, Sitges, Spain. IEEE iWEM 2017, International Workshop on Electromagnetics, London UK. SBMO/IEEE IMOC 2015, 2019 and IEEE LAMC 2016 among other conferences. A senior member of the IEEE, member of the IET and member of the EuMA.

ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3932-0461