Rafael Pous received a B.S. degree in telecommunications engineering and in computer science from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, in 1988, a M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA, in 1989, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 1992. From 1993 to 2009, he was an associate professor with the Technical University of Catalonia. Since 2009, he has been an associate professor with Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. In parallel to his academic career, he has co-founded three technology start-up companies. His past research interests include numerical methods in electromagnetism, applied superconductivity, and fractal antennas. As the founder of the Ubiquitous Computing Applications Lab, his current research interests include ubiquitous computing and the Internet of things applied to different industries, using radio frequency identification and robotics, among other technologies.