Dr. Neftali Nuñez

Neftali Nuñez earned from the Polytechnic University of Madrid/Universidad Politécnica de Madrid-UPM (Spain) a BS in Electronics Equipment (1989), a Masters in ISSASI (2008), and a PhD in Information and Communications Technology (2012). He has been a Professor at the School of Telecommunications Systems and Engineering of the UPM since 1997, in addition to belonging to the Institute of Solar Energy (UPM) from 2008 and its “Semiconductor III–V” research group. He has been Director of a Postgraduate course of the UPM: Reliability in Electronic Engineering. He previously worked in the private company Telefonica Research and Development from 1989 to 2001, designing hybrid circuits in the Microelectronics Division. He has co-authored more than 45 scientific papers, 12 (Q1) and 9 (Q2) in the JCR, and participated in more than 23 European, National, and (European Space Agency) ESA projects related to the reliability of concentrator and space multijunction solar cells. His research focus is on optoelectronic and III–V solar cells reliability; other topics of interest include spectrographic sensing and wireless sensing. His current position is professor at the UPM, and he teaches Electronics and Wireless Production Technologies, Product Engineering, and Reliability at the UPM.