He received the B.Sc. degree in Telecom. Engineering from Univ. Politécnica de Madrid in 1989, the M.Sc. degree in Physics from Univ. Complutense de Madrid in 1993, and the PhD degree from Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2009. He joined Telefonica in 1989 and was involved on the standardization, procurement, and first office application of Telefonica’s SDH transport network. In 2004 he joined UPC, where currently he is a full professor and senior researcher at the Advanced Broadband Comm. Center (CCABA). He has co-authored more than 200 papers and two books related to Elastic Optical Networks. He is serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE/OSA J. Optical Comm. and Networking and in the TPC of several international conferences. He has participated in European research projects such as FP7 IDEALIST and H2020 METRO-HAUL, and MSCA REAL-NET and MENTOR. His interests include intent-based networking (monitoring and AI/ML), for autonomous toward 6G networks and services.

Jordi Martorell received a PhD degree in Physics from Brown University (USA) in 1990 and he performed postdoctoral studies at New York University. He became a UPC professor in 1999 and since 2005 he is also head of the organic nano-structured photovoltaics group at ICFO. Jordi Martorell has mainly focused his research into the experimental study of new photonic concepts to shape the properties of optical materials, a field where he has made several key contributions: To control spontaneous emission in photonic crystals, to demonstrate phase matched non-linear light generation in centro-symmetric materials, and more recently to achieve second harmonic light generation from an extremely low number of molecules. In 2011 Jordi Martorell took a major turn in his research activities and focused the core of his activity to study fundamental aspects of photonics applied to thin film photovoltaics.

Cristina Masoller (1963, Montevideo, Uruguay) is Full Professor at the Physics Department, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC). She received the bachelor and master degrees in physics from Universidad de la República, Uruguay, where she was assistant professor (1989-2004). She received the PhD degree in physics from Bryn Mawr College (USA) in 1999. She was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Nice, at Bangor University and at Universitat de les Illes Balears (2000-2002). She joined UPC with a Ramon i Cajal fellowship in 2004, became Associate Professor in 2009 and Full Professor in 2018. She is co-author of more than 160 articles that have received 5700 citations. She has supervised 11 PhD thesis. She is member of the Editorial Board of several interdisciplinary journals. She is a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA), the leading professional society in optics and photonics. She was recognized for contributions in the area of nonlinear dynamics of optical systems.

Born in Barcelona in 1966, Jordi Llorca graduated and earned his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Barcelona, where he was later appointed Associate Professor and Ramón y Cajal Fellow. In 2005, he joined the Technical University of Catalonia as Professor and in 2014 he became Full Professor as Serra Húnter Fellow. He has been visiting professor at several universities. He has received the Distinction of Generalitat de Catalunya to the Promotion of the University Research in 2003, the Humbert Torres Prize in 2003 and the ICREA Academia in 2009, 2014 and in 2019. He has been Director of the Institute of Energy Technologies and Director of the Center for Research in NanoEngineering at UPC and currently he is Director of the Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering. In 2017 he became Academic member of the Institute for Catalan Studies, Division of Science and Technology. He has published over 380 scholarly articles and authored 10 patents.