Short biography

I received the B.Sc. degree and the M.Sc. in telecommunication engineering from the University of Málaga, Spain, in 2019. I was granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education to join the University of Málaga as a Researcher. In 2021 I was part of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Communication and Navigation, carrying out my master’s thesis. Since 2022, I have been a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at CentraleSupélec, University Paris-Saclay, pursuing a Ph.D. in the electromagnetic modeling of Large Intelligent Surfaces. My research interest includes signal processing for digital communications and the electromagnetic-consistent models for communication systems.

Short description of project objectives

In recent years, the development of a more connected industry is demanding a new step in the performance of communication networks. Applications such as the industrial Internet of Things require support for an extreme density of connected devices. In this context, Large Intelligent Surfaces (LIS) have been proposed as a candidate technology to tackle this requirement. These surfaces are expected to have a great potential for spatial multiplexing and for supporting transmission with multiple Degrees of Freedom even in Line of Sight conditions. The research work will be focused on the development of electromagnetic-consistent models for LIS in order to understand its fundamental limits. Moreover, these models will allow the design of techniques to optimize the performance of the surfaces. The secondment will allow me to carry out an experimental validation of the models and algorithms developed. During these months, the main work has been focused on a deep study of the current state of the art in this topic analyzing the main contributions and limits of each paper.