Anna Calveras was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1969. She obtained the Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain in 2000. She is associate professor at the mentioned University, at the Computer Networks Department, in the Wireless Networks Group (WNG). Her research interests and expertise areas comprise the design, evaluation, and optimization of communications protocols and architectures for cellular, wireless multihop networks, ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, the Internet of Things, and application domains, such as smart cities, building automation, and emergency environments. She has been involved in several National and International research or technology transfer projects, and she has published in International and national conferences and journals.