Manuel Sierra Castañer

Advanced Technologies in Antenna Measurements: How to Combine the Reduction of Measurement Time with High Accuracy of the Antenna Measurement Processes?

Bio: Manuel Sierra Castañer was born in 1970 in Zaragoza (Spain). He obtained the degree of Telecommunication Engineering in 1994 and the PhD in 2000, both from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) in Spain, where he is Full Professor since 2017. He has been visitor researcher in Tokyo Tech (September-December 1998) and EPFL (September-December 1999) during his PhD and visitor Professor in Tokyo Tech during the summers of 2012 and 2013. Currently, he is Fellow member of the IEEE and AMTA Societies. In 2024, he obtained the AMTA Distinguished achievement award. Since January 2016 he was member of the EurAAP (European Association on Antennas and Propagation) board of directors, and since 2019 to end of 2021 he was the EurAAP vice-chair. He was the General Chair of EuCAP2022 in Madrid. Currently, he is the Dean of the Telecommunications School of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and has been EurAAP ambassador during the year 2023-24.