Expert at CTAE
Director of UAB Research Park

Gonzalo Seco-Granados received the Ph.D. degree in telecommunication engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2000, and the M.B.A. degree from IESE - University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain, in 2002. Until 2005, he was member of the technical staff with the RF Payload Division, European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC), European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, where he was involved in the Galileo project and in the design of GNSS receivers. He led the activities concerning indoor positioning for GPS and Galileo. Since 2006, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, where he is the coordinator of the Telecommunications Engineering degree. Dr. Seco-Granados received two best Ph.D. thesis awards from UPC and the Spanish Association of Telecommunication Engineers, as well as the best presentation award at the ION-GPS’2003 conference. He was co-guest editor for the special issue on Signal Processing for Positioning and Navigation with Applications to Communications of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in July 2005. He holds the Chair of Knowledge and Technology Transfer Parc de Recerca UAB - Santander for the period March 2009 - March 2011. Dr. Seco-Granados has coordinated many international and national research projects, and acts as advisor of the European Commission in certain topics. He has published many international journal and conference papers, and two patents under exploitation. His research interests include signal processing for wireless communications and navigation, location-based communications, estimation theory, multicarrier signals, and array and multichannel signal processing.