Prof. Fernando Las-Heras

Fernando Las-Heras Andrés (Senior Member, IEEE), received his Masters (1987) and PhD (1990) in Telecommunication Engineering from the Tech University of Madrid (UPM). He was a National Graduate Research Fellow from 1988 to 1990 and served as an Associate Professor at the Department of Signal, Systems, and Radiocommunication at UPM from 1991 to 2000. Since 2003, he has been a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Oviedo, where he leads the research group Signal Theory and Communications (TSC-UNIOVI). He was a Visiting Researcher at Syracuse University, NY, and a Visiting Lecturer at the National University of Engineering in Peru and ESIGELEC in France. From 2005 to 2015, he held the Telefónica Chair in "RF Technologies." His professional service includes membership on the board of directors of the IEEE Spain Section (2012-2015) and board membership of the IEEE Microwaves & Antennas Propagation Chapter (AP03/MTT17) from 2016-2019 and from 2024 onward. He has been a member of the Science, Technology, and Innovation Council of Asturias, Spain, since 2010 and is president of the professional association of Telecommunication Engineers in Asturias. In 2024 he received the Distinguished Researcher Award from the Asturian Academy of Science and Engineering. He has authored over 250 indexed journal papers on electromagnetic radiation, propagation, and scattering, as well as inverse problems applied to antenna measurement and imaging.