Department: Enxeñaría telemática

Centre: *Escola De Enxeñaría De Telecomunicación

Research center: ATLANTTIC

Campus: Vigo

Area: Telematics Engineering

Research group: GIST (Telematics Systems Engineering Group)

Email: manolo@uvigo.es

Personal web: https://Manolo.webs.uvigo.gal

Doctor by the Universidade de Vigo with the thesis Contribucion al tratamiento de datos en lotos 1997. Supervised by Dr. Martín Llamas Nistal.

Telecommunications Engineer (1990) from the University of Santiago de Compostela and PhD in Telecommunications Engineering (1997) from the University of Vigo. Since 1990 he lectures and does research at the School of Telecommunication Engineering, University of Vigo. He has more than a hundred international publications in the field of ICT, and regularly participates in international research projects with companies and institutions in the ICT sector, as well as in international educational cooperation projects. Between 2005 and 2009 he interrupted this academic career to join the Galician administration as General Director of Audiovisual Communication and the telecommunications operator Retegal S.A. as CEO, with the task of designing and managing the process of transition to Digital Terrestrial Television in Galicia, as well as other major projects in the field of telecommunications infrastructure. His research activity is focused on advanced telecommunication services for education, for the elderly and for the care of dependent people.