Onel López received a B.Sc. (1st class honors, 2013), M.Sc. (2017) and D.Sc. (with distinction, 2020) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Central University of Las Villas (Cuba), the Federal University of Paraná (Brazil) and the University of Oulu (Finland), respectively. He is a co-recipient of the 2019 IEEE European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Best Student Paper Award and a collaborator to the 2016 Research Award given by the Cuban Academy of Sciences. His postdoctoral studies during 2020 were focused on machine-type wireless communications, sustainable networks and cellular wireless systems. He currently holds an Assistant Professorship (tenure track) in sustainable wireless communications engineering in the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), Oulu, Finland.