Monica Fernandez-Barciela (Senior Member, IEEE) received her M.Sc. degree in physics (electronics) from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain, in 1989, and her Ph.D. degree in communications engineering from the University of Vigo (UVigo), Spain, in 1996. Her thesis research was partly performed at the Fraunhofer-Institut (IAF), Germany, through different stay grants. She joined the UVigo Communications Technologies Department in 1990, first as an FPI-granted Ph.D. student and later as an Assistant Professor (1991) and an Associate Professor (1997) at the Vigo School of Communication Engineering. From July 2010 to September 2014, she was the Vice-Director of the Signal Theory and Communications Department, UVigo. From December 2017 to December 2019, she was the President of the IEEE Spanish Joint Chapter AP003/MTT017. Her main research work has been related to active device nonlinear black-box modeling, device characterization, and circuit design for communications applications.