He received the B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) in 1989, the M.Sc. degree in Physics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) in 1993, the Master degree in Business Administration (MBA) from UPM in 2001, and the PhD degree from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2009.

In 1989 he joined Telefonica of Spain and was involved on the specifications and first office application of Telefonica's SDH transport network. In 2004 he joined UPC, where currently he is assistant professor at the Department of Computers Architecture (DAC) and researcher at the Advanced Broadband Communications Center (CCABA).

He has participated in various IST FP-6 and FP-7 European research projects such as EU DICONET, BONE, IST NOBEL 2, e-Photon/ONe+, and STRONGEST. His interests include planning, CAPEX/OPEX issues, routing and resilience mechanisms in multilayer networks.

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