JOAQUIN PEREZ (M’09) received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. In 2010, he joined the Northumbria Communications Research Lab at Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, as a Research Fellow. In 2014, he joined the Photonics Research Labs (PRL) at iTEAM Research Institute of the UPV as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow under the Juan de la Cierva Fellowship programme. Since 2018, he is with the Universitat de València, Spain, where he is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering. His research interests include the general areas of communications systems and design in optical wireless systems, with special focus on vehicular communications, microwave photonics design and hybrid RF-optical wireless communications systems.