Juan Antonio Carral (PhD '13) graduated in Telecommunication Engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) in 1993. He joined the Escuela Politecnica of the University of Alcala as a teacher's assistant in 1998, obtained a teaching position in 2001, and was promoted to associate professor in 2013. He has participated in several national, international (EU), and regional research projects, both at UPM and University of Alcalá. He has published more than sixteen papers in selected international journals in the field of telecommunications and participated in several international and national conferences. He also collaborates with Fundación Madrid from 2016 and with Fundación ANECA from 2020. Moreover, he works as a Director for Transparency of the University of Alcala (position assimilated to faculty Dean) since 2019. His research interests include SDN, IoT, 5G networks, advanced switching, and simulation.