EDUCATION

- 2016 - PhD in Communications Technologies and Systems, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain. Cum Laude. Extraordinary Doctoral Award. International Doctor Mention.

- 2011 - MSc in Communications Technologies and Systems, UPM, Spain.

- 2008 - Telecommunication Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. Final grade: 8.3/10 (Top 4% of that year).

PUBLICATION TRACK RECORD

- Co-author of 31 papers in international peer-reviewed conferences, 16 papers in international journals, 2 book chapters.

- Publication of 7 datasets and 3 toolboxes in open access (OA).

- h-index: 15 (GoogleScholar), 13 (Scopus).

- Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI, average of last 5 years): 2.64 (Scopus).

- Total citations: 1412 (GoogleScholar), 824 (Scopus).

- Average citations (last 5 years): 183.6 (GoogleScholar), 119.2 (Scopus).

PROJECTS AND GRANTS

- Participation in 19 research projects (European, National and Regional) and 8 technological contracts, being (co-)PI of 3 of them.

- R3 certificate as established/consolidated research scientist.

- Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación fellowship at UPM. 01/02/2020-22/03/2022.

- Marie-Curie postdoc fellowship Co-fund PRESTIGE. Univ. de Nantes (UdN). 09/2017-08/2019.

- Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow within the ITN PROVISION at UdN. 08/2016-08/2017.

- Selected candidate for a FPU scholarship (call 2010).

SERVICES TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY

- Chair of the Immersive Media Group of the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) (08/2016-).

- Member of the Technical Area Committee on Visual Image Processing of EURASIP (01/2024-).

- Co-chair of Qualinet Task Force Joint Qualinet-VQEG team on Immersive Media (04/2018-).

- Director and co-organizer of the International Summer School on eXtended Reality Technology and eXperience, held at UPM (Madrid, Spain) in July 2023.

- General chair of the ACM Int. Conf. on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX) 2022 and the ACM International Workshop on IMmersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE) 2023.

- Co-chair of Workshops at IMX24, Doctoral Consortium at IMX23, Special sessions at QoMEX23 and ISPA23, Demos at IMX20, and Proceedings at MMVE19.

- Co-organizer of 4 special sessions at MMSP23, IEEE ICIP22, IEEE VCIP20, IEEE 3DTV Con-2016, 3 Grand Challenges at IEEE ICIP17 (supported by Netflix) and at IEEE IC ME 2018 (supported by Facebook) and 2019 (supported by Dell) and a Workshop at ACM CSCW23.

- Editor of the journal Quality and User Experience (Springer), review editor of the journal Frontiers in Signal Processing, and guest editor of 3 Special Issues/topics on the journals Signal Processing Image Comm. (2021), Frontiers in Signal Process. (2023), and Frontiers in VR (2024)

- Member of Technical Program Committees of relevant international conferences and reviewer of top international journals and conferences. ICIP Top Reviewer Recognition 2020.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO STANDARDIZATION ORGANIZATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC GROUPS

- Co-author of the QUALINET White Paper on Definitions of Immersive Media Experience (IMEx), Nov. 2020. https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07032. 83 citations in GoogleScholar.

- Co-author of 8 contributions to MPEG, 3 contributions to ITU-T SG12/Q13, and more than 15 contributions to VQEG. Co-author of the ITU-T Rec. P.919 (2020).

- Co-editor of the VQEG eLetter 11/2017, and co-author of one article on immersive media.

- Member and contributor to the QUALINET: European Network on Quality of Experience in Multimedia Systems and Services (previously COST Action).

- Member/contributor to the IEEE Human Factors for Visual Experiences Working Group (P.3331).

TALKS AND COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES

- Invited talks/seminars at: CWI Spring School on Social XR (Amsterdam, 2023 and 2024), MPEG Workshop on Quality of Immersive Media (online, 05/10/2021), GdR ISIS (CNRS) meeting at INSA Rennes (France, 03/2019), IETR (Rennes, France, 07/2018).

- Editor of the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) Records (ISSN 1947-4598). Co-author of periodic articles.

- Outreach: Open Doors Days of the ETSIT-UPM (2011-2016) and Polytech Nantes (2016-2019), European Researchers Night (Nantes, 2016), Fête de la Science (Nantes, 2016), videos of research activities (e.g., collaboration with Netflix on perceptual coding), etc.

TEACHING AND SUPERVISION

- Classes (theory and laboratories) in bachelor and master courses of Telecommunication Engineering at the UPM (2015/16, 2019-2023, >400 hours) and in courses of the master Visual Computing of Université de Nantes (2017-2019, 36 hours).

- Co-supervisor of a PhD student (started in 2023) at UPM on the evaluation of user experience in XR environments.

- Co-supervisor of a master thesis of a student from UdN (2018). Co-supervisor of the final theses of 7 degree students (UPM) and 6 master students (4 from UPM and 3 Erasmus, 2021-2024).

CAREER MOBILITY

- Post-doctoral researcher at Université de Nantes, France. 08/2016-08/2019.

- Visiting PhD. Student. Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. 09/2012-12/2012.

- Visiting PhD. Student. Université de Nantes, France. 06/2011-09/2011.

- Undergraduate Erasmus student. Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. 09/2007-07/2008.