Miquel Payaró Llisterri (S'03 - M'08) was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1979. He received the degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He received a predoctoral grant from the Generalitat de Catalunya and from the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) predoctoral fellowships program. During his Ph.D. studies Miquel held a research appointment at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). From October 2002 to February 2007, he was involved in several research projects in the field of wireless communications, such as MARQUIS included in the European program EUREKA-MEDEA+ or NEWCOM financed by the Information Society Technologies program of the European Comission (EC). From February 2007 to December 2008 he held a postdoctoral position with the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China. From January 2009, he has been a Research Associate with the CTTC where, in January 2011, he was appointed the head of the Engineering Unit. In his second involvement with CTTC he has participated in several research contracts with the industry as well as in research projects, such as BuNGee from the Seventh Framework Program of the EC. His primary research interests include information-theoretic and signal processing aspects of MIMO channels, with emphasis on the impact of the channel state information and on robust designs.
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