My career can be divided into three parts: My PhD studies at UPM, my work in Linköping (Sweden) and my return to UPM. During my PhD, I got an FPU Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education, and I developed my own research line on FFT hardware architectures, which I have continued and expanded later. In 2007, I visited Prof. Keshab K. Parhi, IEEE Fellow, who is probably the most renowned researcher in the field around the world. In 2008, I visited Prof. Peter Pirsch, IEEE Fellow, another very relevant researcher in the field. In 2009, I published my first journal paper as first author. This work turned out to be a reference in the field and has 160 citations nowadays. I finished my PhD in 2009 with Cum Laude and Doctorado Europeo.

In 2010, Prof. Oscar Gustafsson, who had been member of my Thesis Committee and liked my Thesis, offered me a post-doc position at Linköping University (LIU) (Sweden), where I moved. I worked as a postdoctoral student for two years and then, in 2012, I got the position of Associate Professor (Profesor Titular). During my 9 years in Sweden, I also got funding from ELLIIT, a national entity that funds talented researchers in Sweden. This funding acted as a tenure track. In 2013, I got a Best Paper Award and I published a paper that has become a reference in the field with 261 citations nowadays.  In 2014, I published an Invited paper and I started to collaborate with Dr. Martin Kumm from the University of Kassel (now Professor in Fulda), where I did a stay. In 2016, I became Associate Editor of the Journal of Signal Processing Systems. In 2017, I did a second stay in Kassel, where we achieved the world's fastest FFT architectures so far. In 2017, I also became Docent, which is awarded in Sweden to researchers with significant contributions in their fields. In 2018, I was invited to be a Guest Editor for a Special Section of FFT hardware architectures and to write a book chapter on the field.  

In 2019, I returned to UPM, where I hold a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship. In 2019, I was also elevated to Senior Member of IEEE. In 2020, I was invited as Evaluator for the Spanish Research Agency (AEI). In 2022, I got the Certificate for I3 Researcher.

In the last years, I have focused on building a research team and applying my research to key technologies: Radio astronomy, 5G and 6G, and neural networks, where we have already obtained significant results.  Nowadays, I am the leader of a research team composed by a postdoctoral researcher (Zeynep Kaya) and three PhD students (Pedro Paz, Víctor Manuel Bautista and Francisco Albertuz). In 2022 we were awarded two research projects from the calls Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento (MCIN/AEI/ERDF) and Estímulo a la Investigación de Jóvenes Doctores (Comunidad de Madrid). I am the PI in both of them. Apart from having a continuous supervision of my students, we organize weekly seminars where our team discusses topics that are relevant to our research field, and I teach the students topics and skills that are relevant for their PhD.

Currently, my research is known around the world. A proof of this is that both in 2022 and 2023 I have appeared in the World’s Top 2% Scientists List, elaborated by Standford University.  Moreover, my papers receive a high number of citations, with h-factor = 26 nowadays. I am proud of having created a solid foundation of knowledge in the field.   

Regarding teaching, I have been teacher in 30 university courses on digital and analog electronics for a total of more than 1000 lecture hours, I have designed 2 university courses and I have been course responsible in 7 courses.

Finally, I have solid collaboration with relevant researchers in my research area, as well as technology transfer in projects with companies. This includes, among others, a patent that is being exploited by Hewlett Packard (Spain), and state-of-the-art designs for Indra (Spain) and SP Devices (Sweden). Regarding research collaborations, it is worth mentioning the sustained collaborations with Martin Kumm from Fulda (Germany) and Sau-Gee Chen from Hshinchu (Taiwan), which have led to excellent scientific results through the years.