CURRICULUM VITAE

Curriculum Vitae (PDF, updated as of May 2024, in English)

BIOGRAPHY

Magdalena Salazar-Palma was born in Granada, Spain. She received the MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain, where she has been Assistant and Associate Professor at the Department of Signals, Systems and Radiocommunications (SSR). Since 2004 she is with the Department of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M), Spain, where she has been Full Professor, head of the Department and co-director of the Radiofrequency, Electromagnetics, Microwaves and Antennas Research Group. She is now Emeritus Professor with teaching and research duties.

She has developed her research in a number of areas: electromagnetic field theory; advanced computational and numerical methods for microwave and millimeter wave passive components and antennas analysis and design; advanced network theory, in particular, passive devices, filters and multiplexers theory and design; antenna arrays and smart antennas; novel materials and metamaterials for the implementation of devices and antennas with improved performance (multiband, miniature size, and so on) for the new generation of communication systems; design, simulation, optimization, implementation, and measurement of microwave circuits both in waveguide and integrated (hybrid and monolithic) technologies; millimeter, submillimeter and THz frequency band technologies; radio waves propagation theory; and history of telecommunications.

She has authored or co-authored 754 publications: 9 scientific books and 30 book contributions published by international editorial companies, 14 academic books, 122 articles in scientific journals, 406 contributions for international symposia, 78 papers in national conferences, 53 project reports, 30 short courses notes, and 12 other publications. She has coauthored 2 European/USA patents and several software packages for the analysis and design of microwave and millimeter wave passive components, antennas and antenna arrays, advanced filters and multiplexers, which are under exploitation by multinational companies. She has participated (as principal investigator or researcher) in a total of 97 research projects (47) and contracts (50) financed by Spanish, European, and USA public institutions and companies. She has delivered numerous invited presentations and short courses in many Spanish Universities and Institutions and Institutions all over the world.

She received two individual research awards, and together with her Department another research award. In 2016 she got an Honorary Doctorate from Aalto University, Finland. She has received several grants and other awards and recognitions, among them the elevation to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to the application of numerical techniques to electromagnetic modeling”. She was the lecturer of the Inaugural Lesson of the Academic Year 2015-2016, Carlos III University of Madrid (the video recording of the opening ceremony may be seen here, with the inaugural lesson going from minute 44 to minute 78). She was interviewed by the journal BIT of the Spanish Official National Association of Telecommunication Engineers, COIT, with the interview announced in the front cover of issue 202, February 2016. Also, in 2017 she was inducted as member of IEEE-HKN (Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society of IEEE). In 2022 the Spanish Official National Association of Telecommunication Engineers gave her the 2022 IT Pioneer award, in the second edition of this award which was established to highlight the career and professional journey of a female Telecommunication Engineer (IT, in Spanish) as a “pioneer”, in a technical profession with a high percentage of male professionals. A second goal of the award is to make visible the contributions and achievements that have been made in society thanks to the presence of female talent in the technological field, in telecommunications in particular.

She has been member of the Spain Accreditation Committee of Full Professors in Engineering and Architecture (ANECA) and other accreditation panels for institutions in Spain and abroad. She has assisted several Spanish agencies in the evaluation of projects, research grants applications, and so on. She has served in evaluation panels of the Commission of the European Communities, and other countries, including the National Science Foundation in USA. She has been associate editor of several scientific journals, member of the Technical Program or Organizing Committees of many international and national symposia, and reviewer for many international scientific journals, symposia, and editorial companies.

Besides being the head of the TSC Department, UC3M, she has been member of several academic committees at the Department, School and University levels (both at UPM and UC3M), including the Polytechnic School Board and University Senate, and the UC3M Governing Council.

In 1989 she became member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and was elevated to Senior Member in 2001. In November 2013, she was elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2014. Since 2020 she is IEEE Life Fellow. She is member of five IEEE Technical Societies: Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S), Communications Society, Education Society, Magnetics Society, Microwave Theory and Technologies Society (MTT-S), and three IEEE Affinity Groups: Women in Engineering (WIE), Life Members (LF), and Young Professionals (YP).

• Since 1989 she has served IEEE under different volunteer positions (total of more than 120) at all levels: locally, regionally, IEEE Technical Activities (TA), Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) and IEEE corporate, IEEE Board of Directors (BoD), Assembly and BoD Standing Boards and Committees. She was Vice-chair and Chair of Spain Section AP-S/MTT-S Joint Chapter, Spain Section Chair, Spain Section Membership Development officer, Spain Section Professional Development officer, Spain Section advisor, Region 8 (R8) Committee member, R8 Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee member, R8 Conference Coordination Subcommittee Chair, IEEE Women in Engineering Committee (WIEC) member, WIEC Chair, member and Chair of Ethics and Member Conduct Committee, History Committee, MGAB (Member and Geographic Activities Board) Geographic Unit Operations Support Committee (GUOSC) member, elected member-at-large of AP-S Administrative Committee. In 2009 she was elected as 2010 AP-S President-Elect, serving in 2011 as 2011 AP-S President and member of the Technical Activities Board (TAB), and, in 2012, as AP-S Past President, Chair of AP-S Nominations Committee and Chair of AP-S Past Presidents Council. She has also been member of AP-S Nominations Committee, Distinguished Lecturer Program Committee, Field Awards Committee, Meetings Committee, New Technology Directions Committee, and Chair and member of the AP-S Constitution and Bylaws Committee, Chair of the History Committee, of the Society Review Committee, and the Strategic Planning Committee. In 2014 she was elected member-at-large of MTT-S Administrative Committee, where she has served as member of the Education Committee, Image and Visibility Committee, MGA Committee, Operations Committee, Publications Committee, SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technologies) Ad Hoc Committee, and member and Vice-chair of Intersociety Liaison Committee. Within TAB she has been member of Division IV Nominations and Appointments Committee, TAB Society Review Committee, TAB Nominations and Appointments Committee, TAB Hall of Honor Committee, and TAB Leading Representative at the Joint MGAB/TAB/EAB (Educational Activities Board) Ad Hoc Committee on Member Development. She has also served as member of IEEE Service Awards Committee, IEEE Honorary Membership Committee (both under IEEE Awards Board), IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award in Emerging Technology, IEEE Electromagnetic Award, IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (all three, under IEEE Technical Field Awards Council). She has also been member of IEEE SIGHT Communities of Practice Subcommittee, and the IEEE Fellow Committee. She was General Chair of MGAB Sections Congress 2014, member of 2017 Sections Congress Committee and voting member of MGAB (as TAB representative). Now she is Chair of the IEEE European Public Policy, which reports to the IEEE BoD, Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee member and two of its Subcommittees (Fellow Diversity Oversight and Fellow Strategic Planning), reporting to the BoD, Member of the IEEE Conduct Review Committee, which reports to the BoD through IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee. She is member of the IEEE Humanitarian Technologies Board (HTB), which reports to the IEEE BoD; and Chair of HTB Governance Subcommittee, she is member of the IEEE Ad Hoc on the Future of Technical and Engineering Education, which reports to the BoD. She is member of IEEE TAB Periodicals Committee, which reports to the Technical Activities Board (TAB), and member of the IEEE TAB Nominations and Appointments, and member of the IEEE App Working Group. She is member of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Nominations and Appointments, Past Chair and member of the Geographic Unit Operations Support Committee (GUOSC) which reports to IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Board (MGAB), and member of the Local Groups Working Group, which reports to GUOSC.
• In 2016 she was elected as IEEE Region 8 (Africa, Europe and Middle East) Delegate-Elect / Director-Elect for 2017-2018, Region 8 Delegate/Director for 2019-2020 and Region 8 Past Director for 2021-2022. She has been member and Chair of Region 8 Strategic Planning Committee, member of IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Activities in Africa, IEEE European Public Policy Committee, IEEE Awards Board and other committees under the Awards Board, MGA Strategic Planning Committee, and other MGA Committees. And Chair of MGA Awards and Recognitions Committee, and IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee. During 2019-2020, at the IEEE leadership level she served as Region 8 Director and Region 8 Committee Chair, member of the IEEE Board of Directors, IEEE Assembly (the IEEE main governing bodies), and IEEE MGAB. She has been Chair of IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award Committee and member of the IEEE Technical Field Awards Council. and member of various Ad Hoc Committees reporting to the BoD and TAB, like IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity and Inclusion. And, within MTT-S, member of Technical Committee #1, MGA Committee and Education Committee.
• Now she is Past Chair and member of IEEE AP-S Strategic Planning Committee. Member (invited) of the R8 Operations Committee. She is Chair of the R8 Ad Hoc on Volunteers Pipeline, R8 representative to Africa Council, Member of R8 Sections Congress Coordination Committee, Member of R8 Strategic Planning Committee, Member of R8 Ad Hoc Advisory Committee, and Advisor to the IEEE Spain Section, Member of the Local Groups Working Group, which reports to GUOSC. Within R8 she is member (invited) of the R8 Operations Committee, Chair of the R8 Ad Hoc on Volunteers Pipeline, R8 representative to Africa Council, Member of R8 Sections Congress Coordination Committee, Member of R8 Strategic Planning Committee, Member of R8 Ad Hoc Advisory Committee, Advisor to the IEEE Spain Section, Past Chair and member of IEEE AP-S Strategic Planning Committee, member of IEEE MTT-S MAG Committee.

23 May 2024