Pablo Soto was born in Cartagena, Spain, in 1975. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (cum laude) in telecommunication engineering from the Universidad Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain, in 1999 and 2012, respectively. In 2000, he joined the Departamento de Comunicaciones, Universidad Politècnica de València, where he has been an Associate Professor since 2012. In 2000, he was a European Union Research Fellow with the European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. His research interests include numerical methods for the analysis, synthesis, and fully automated design of passive components in waveguide technology, development and design of novel hardware for satellite applications, and characterization and mitigation of high-power RF effects. Dr. Soto was the recipient of the 2000 COIT/AEIT National Awards to the Best Master and in 2012 Best Ph.D. Thesis. He is a regular reviewer of the most relevant IEEE technical journals in his areas of interest.