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. Since 1998 he is (still) a Physics undergraduate student at the Universitat de Barcelona.

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 has been 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.

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.

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.

From January 2009 he is a Research Associate with the CTTC.

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Last update: 2009/07/29