Arturo Azcorra Saloña#
| Membership Number: | 4658 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.it.uc3m.es/~azcorra |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006, 10 - present Director of IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain (on leave 2009, 10 - 2012, 06)
- 1999, 04 - present Full Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain (on leave 2009,10 - 2012, 02)
- 2010, 05 - 2012, 02 Director General of Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), Spain
- 2009, 10 - 2010, 05 Director General for Technology Transfer and Corporate Development, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain
- 2000, 06 - 2007, 06 Deputy Vicerector of Academic Infrastructures at U. Carlos III
- 1998, 02 - 1999, 04 Associate Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
- 1987, 10 - 1998, 02 Associate Professor at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
- 1987, 06 - 1987, 10 Project Researcher, ESPRIT EU Program, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Fields of Scholarship
- Multi-access Edge Computing
- Network Function Virtualization
- 5G networks and services
- Software Defined Networks
- Smart connectivity systems
- Virtual distributed systems
Honours and Awards
- 2005, 05 - Elected Chairman of the Expert Advisory Board of the European Technology Platform (ETP) Networld2020. The participants in the election where the ~1,000 member institutions of Networld2020 that include the leading universities, industries and SMEs in the computer networks area in Europe (see http://www.networld2020.eu/our-members
). He still holds this prestigious position at present date
- 2002 - Special University award for extraordinary merits, awarded by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
- 1990 - National prize for the best PhD in Telecommunications, Jointly awarded by the Professional Association of Telecommunications Engineers (AEIT), the Official Board of Telecommunications Engineers (COIT) and the National Association of Electronic Industries (ANIEL)
- 1986 - National prize to the best student graduating in Telecommunications Engineering awarded by Price-Waterhouse
