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) in 2002. Currently, he is Senior Researcher (since February 2007), and Head of the Optical Network and System Department and Manager of the Communication Networks Division (since April 2013). Previously, he was the CTTC representative at the Board of the 5G Infrastructure Association (5GIA), and the Steering Board of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) and the Networld2020 ETP form January 2015 to September 2018. He was the Coordinator from the Optical Networking Area from July 2005 to March 2013. He was also the Coordinator of ADRENALINE testbed® since 2002 to 2009.

Since 2000, he has participated in over 40 R&D projects funded by the European Commission’s Framework Programmes (H2020, FP7, FP6, FP5, CELTIC and ITEA) and the Spanish National research programmes (Proyecto I+D, Red Temática, CENIT, PROFIT, CYCIT).  He has been the Principal Investigator (PI) of several Spanish research projects (four Proyectos I+D/CYCIT: RESPLANDOR, DORADO, FARO and DESTELLO; one International Complementary Action (ACI) with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology – NICT-  in Japan). He has also been the Project Manager (PM) of two European projects, the coordinated EU-Japan STREP project (STRAUSS, 608528) within FP7, and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (MSCA-ITN) project (ONFIRE,  765275) within the H2020 framework programme. Additionally, he has been the CTTC researcher in charge of seven European projects (H2020 blueSPACE, FP7 IDEALIST, STRONGEST, NOBEL2, NOBEL, and BONE, ITEA TBONES). He has also participated and led research projects with the industry.

He has participated in the organization of several conferences (ONDM 2020 General chair, ONDM2019 TPC chair, WWRF39 chair, ECOC 2015 TPC chair, EUCNC 2014 Track chair, NOC 2012 TPC chair), as well as panels, special sessions and symposia (EUCNC 2015, EUCNC 2017, ONDM2019). He also served as vice-chair of the EU FP7 Technology Cluster on Converged and Optical Networks (CaON). He has been an active member of the technical program committee of various networking conferences such as ICC, GLOBECOM, IPOP, ONDM, EUCNC and ECOC, as well as frequent reviewer of top-leading journals in the field such as IEEE journal of Lightwave Technologies (JLT) and Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN). He also served as Associate Editor for the ECOC2015 special issue for JLT.

He has served as evaluator for the National research agencies of Spain (ANEP, Comisiones TEC-TCM), and Luxemburg (FNR). His research interests include control and service management architectures (SDN, NFV, GMPLS, PCE, MEC) for future optical transport networks with cloud and edge computing. He has published over 70 journal papers, 240 international conference papers, and 2 patents in this field. He is IEEE Senior Member since 2012, and member of the IEEE communications society and Photonics society.

Thesis supervised: 3 (2 on-going)

Total citations: 3190

Total JCR articles: 78

Total JCR articles in Q1: 61

h-index: 30

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