Raül Muñoz

Raul Munoz is graduated in telecommunications engineering in 2001 and received a Ph.D. degree in telecommunications in 2005, both from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain. After working as undergraduate researcher at Telecom Italia Lab (Turin, Italy) in 2000, and as assistant professor at the UPC in 2001, he joined the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA) in 2002. Currently, he is Senior Researcher, Head of the Optical Network and System Department, and Manager of the Communication Networks Division. Since January 2015, he is also assistant to the CTTC scientific coordinator in charge of 5GPPP proposals. Since 2000, he has participated in over 35 R&D projects funded by the Spanish National research programmes and the European Commission’s Framework Programmes (H2020, FP7, FP6 and FP5), as well as technology transfer projects with industry. He has led several Spanish research projects, and the European Consortium of the coordinated EU-Japan FP7 project STRAUSS. He has participated in the organization of 3 conferences (ECOC 2015 TPC chair, EUCNC 2014 Track chair, NOC 2012 TPC chair) and has been elected as academic member of the Board of the 5G Infrastructure Association (2017-2018), and the Steering Board of the Wireless World Research Forum – WWRF (2016-2017) and the Networld2020 ETP (2017-2018). He also served as vice-chair of the EU FP7 Technology Cluster on Converged and Optical Networks (CaON). His research interests include control and service management architectures (SDN, NFV, GMPLS, PCE) for future optical transport networks. He has published over 45 journal papers, 160 international conference papers, and 2 patent in this field. He is IEEE Senior Member since 2012.

ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4651-4499