LEYRE AZPILICUETA FDEZ. DE LAS HERAS
INVESTIGADOR RAMON Y CAJAL

• Departamento: INGENIERÍA ELÉCTRICA, ELECTRÓNICA Y DE COMUNICACIÓN
• Área de conocimiento: Teoría de la Señal y Comunicaciones
• e-mail: leyre.azpilicuetaunavarra.es
• Teléfono: [+34] 94816 8992 (ext. 8992)
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LEYRE AZPILICUETA (Senior Member, IEEE) received her Telecommunications Engineering Degree (2009), her Master’s Degree of Communications (2011) and her Ph.D. Degree in Telecommunication Technologies (2015), at the Public University of Navarre (UPNA), in Spain.

In 2010 she worked in the R&D department of RFID Osés as radio engineer. From 2015 to 2022, she was an Associate Professor and Researcher at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Mexico. Currently, she is a Ramon y Cajal Fellow (Researcher & Professor) at UPNA, in Spain. She has over 250 contributions in relevant journals and conference publications. Her research interests are on radio propagation, mobile radio systems, wireless sensor networks, ray tracing, and channel modeling. She was the IEEE Communications Society Monterrey Chapter Chair (2020-2022), and Faculty Advisor of the IEEE-HKN Lambda-Rho Chapter (2020-2022). She is currently the Vice-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc RCC Special Interest Group on Propagation Channels for 5G and Beyond. She is Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Letters Journal (2020-present), IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques (2022-present), Computer Communications Journal (2021-present) and International Journal of Electronics and Communications (2018-date). She has co-authored the textbook Radio Wave propagation in Vehicular Environments (2020), from The Institution of Engineering and Technology.

She has received numerous awards over the past few years, including the 2014 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award, the Young Professors and Researchers Santander Universities 2014 Mobility Award, the Best PhD in 2016 awarded from Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (COIT), the 2018 IEEE N2Women: Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications Award, the IEEE Junior Research Raj Mittra Travel Grant 2020, the Distinguished Professor Award 2020 and 2021, and the IEEE Mojgan Daneshmand Grant 2021. She also co-authored papers that received Best Paper Awards at conferences, including ECSA 2014, the IISA 2015, ISSI 2019, and EAI IndustrialIoT 2020.