Dr. Francisco Vázquez Gallego received his B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering (1995), M.Sc. (2000), and Ph.D. (2016) degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He has 25 years of experience in research and development of low-power sensor and actuator networks, embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, and vehicular networks over 5G/C-V2X/ITS-G5. Since January 2022, he has been head of the V2X communications research line within the Mobile Wireless Internet (MWI) group at i2CAT. Francisco has extensive experience in research and innovation projects funded by European and national programs, as well as in technology transfer projects. He is currently the technical coordinator of the European 5GMED project. His main research focuses on the analysis, modeling, and implementation of vehicular networks and digital twins, as well as the deployment and validation of Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) services. Throughout his scientific career, Francisco has participated in 17 competitively funded research projects and 11 technology transfer projects, resulting in 4 registered patents for which he is co-inventor. He has served as principal investigator in 12 of these projects. Francisco has more than 80 publications, including 23 journal papers, 61 conference papers, and 1 book chapter.