Joan Francesc Munoz-Martin (M’16) obtained his BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. in telecommunications engineering in 2014, 2017, and 2021, respectively, from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya—UPC BarcelonaTech. Joan Francesc joined the UPC NanoSat Lab in 2013. He actively participated in the system and software development for the different satellite missions of the laboratory, leading the development of the remote sensing payloads of 3Cat-4, 3Cat-5, and 3Cat-7 (FMPL-1, -2, and -3). He was involved in the European Space Agency programs BEXUS 19, Fly Your Satellite II, and the 3Cat-5/FSSCat mission. He was the payload lead for the circular polarization GNSS-R experiment from the MOSAiC campaign in the Arctic Sea. He is currently employed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a technologist, serving as an electrical engineer for the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), contributes to the Goldstone Solar System Radar (GSSR) signal processing activities, and also engages in continuous activities in microwave radiometry and polarimetric GNSS-R through SMAP Reflectometry.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
La Cañada Flintridge, California, USA