Prof. Dr. Adriano Camps received a degree and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. From 1991 to 1992, he was at the ENS des Télécommunications de Bretagne, France. Since 1993, he has been with the CommSensLab-UPC research group, Department of Signal Theory and Communications, UPC, as an Assistant Professor initially, an Associate Professor as of 1997, and a Full Professor since 2007. His research interests focus on: (1) microwave remote sensing, with special emphasis on microwave interferometric radiometry by aperture synthesis (ESA’s SMOS mission), (2) passive microwave remote sensing using signals of opportunity (GNSS-Reflectometry), (3) RFI detection and mitigation, (4) radiowave propagation through the ionosphere, and (4) nanosats as cost-effective platforms to test innovative concepts for Earth observation, such as the FSSCat mission: a 2 6U-CubeSat mission carrying onboard an innovative GNSS-R/L-band microwave radiometer payload in the first CubeSat and the HyperScout-2 VNIR+TIR hyperspectral imager with an AI experiment to discard cloud-covered images. FSSCat was the first CubeSat-based mission and contributed to the Copernicus program. He has published ~270 journal papers in peer-reviewed journals, and has given ~540 international conference presentations. He is ranked among the top 2% of researchers according to the Stanford University ranking.
Prof. Dr. Álvaro Fernando Moncada Niño is currently a Professor at the CESA School of Business. He graduated from the Universidad de los Andes. He completed his MS (2006) in Business Administration and his PhD (2011) in Business Management from CEU San Pablo University. In 2007, he started his Postdoctoral studies in Management and Public Policy at the University of Zulia (2013). He has worked at CESA since 1983.
