Keynote Speakers

Associate professor of Fluid Machinery, Energy Systems, and Power Generation at the University of Salento 

Biography:

Dr. Teresa Donateo received the master’s degree in materials engineering from the Università degli Studi di Lecce, Lecce, Italy, in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree in combustion and energy conversion from ISUFI, in 2003. Before completing her Ph.D., she joined the Faculty of Engineering, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, as an Assistant Professor. Since 2014, she has been an Associate Professor of fluid machinery, energy systems, and power generation with the University of Salento, teaching courses on fluid machinery and hybrid-electric powertrains. she has been collaborating with Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, with the University of Brest, Brest, France, and with major automotive and aircraft industrial partners, since 2005, 2019, and 2001, respectively. She is the Author of more than 80 papers on simulation, design, and optimization of internal combustion engines, fuel cells, electric and hybrid-electric powertrains for aircraft, heavy-duty vehicles, and passenger cars.,She is an Associate Editor for the SAE International Journal of Engines, a Member of the editorial board of Vehicles, MDPI and an appointed Editor of the book titled Hybrid Electric Vehicles, In-Tech. She is also a Member of the Groups of evaluation experts (GEV) in the Italian Evaluation of Research Quality 2015–2019 (VQR)

 Professor in the Electrical and Electronics Department at the Public University of Navarra (UPNA)

Biography:

Dr. Francisco Falcone (Senior Member, IEEE) received the degree in telecommunication engineering and the Ph.D. degree in communication engineering from the Public University of Navarre (UPNA), Pamplona, Spain, in 1999 and 2005, respectively. From 1999 to 2000, he was a Microwave Network Engineer at Siemens-Italtel, Málaga, Spain. From 2000 to 2008, he was a Mobile Access Network Engineer at Telefónica Móviles, Pamplona. In 2009, he co-founded Tafco Metawireless, Navarre, Spain, a spin-off of the UPNA (with EIBT national label), of which he was its first Manager. In parallel, from 2003 to 2009, he was an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, UPNA. In June 2009, he became an Associate Professor. From 2011 to 2012, he was a Secretary at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering, UPNA. From January 2012 to July 2018 and from July 2019 to November 2021, he was the Head of the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Communication Engineering, UPNA. In 2018, he was a Visiting Professor at the Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Doha, Kuwait, for three months. He has also been with the Smart Cities Institute, Public University of Navarra, a multidisciplinary research institute with over 100 researchers, being the Head of the Institute, since May 2021, working on contextual and interactive environments solutions, through the integration of heterogeneous wireless communications networks, based on HetNet and the Internet of Things. Since June 2022, he has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor with the Telecommunications School of Engineering and Science, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico. Since September 2022, he has also been a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering, UPNA. He has over 600 contributions to indexed international journals, book chapters, and conference contributions. His research interests include computational electromagnetics applied to the analysis of complex electromagnetic scenarios, with a focus on the analysis, design, and implementation of heterogeneous wireless networks to enable context-aware environments. Dr. Falcone received several research awards, such as the CST Best Paper Award in 2003 and 2005, the Prize of the Official Association of Telecommunications Engineers for the Best Doctoral Thesis in 2005, the UPNA Ph.D. Award in experimental sciences from 2004 to 2006, the First Prize Juan López de Peñalver to the Best Young Researcher in 2010, the Real Academia de Ingeniería de España, the XII Talgo Foundation Award for Technological Innovation with the proposal “Implementation of an Environment for the Railway Ecosystem,” the ECSA-2 Best Paper Award in 2015, the Best Paper Award IISA in 2015, the ECSA Award-3 Best Paper Award in 2016, the ECSA-4 Best Paper Award in 2018, the Best Paper Award ISSI in 2019, and the IIoT 2020 Best Paper Award 

Professor, Research and Development Director of EMSI-Marrakech Morocco

Biography:

Dr. Abdelati Reha was born in Casablanca-Morocco in 1975, he received the degree of engineer in aeronautic from the Royal Air Academy of Marrakech-Morocco in 1999, the degree of engineer in telecommunication from the INPTRabat-Morocco in 2002, the PHD degree in telecommunication from Hassan II University-Casablanca-Morocco in 2016. He is an Ex-Major in the Moroccan Royal Air Forces. He is Research and development Director of EMSI-Marrakech and Director of LAMIGEP Laboratory. His main research interests are in fractal antennas, UWB applications, array antennas. Pr REHA is a member of IEEE-APS (Antenna and Propagation Society) and IEEE-AESS (Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society).

 Professor in the Department of Automobile Engineering at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUS TECH)

Biography:

Dr. Vidas Žuraulis received the master’s and Ph.D. degrees in transport engineering from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUS TECH, Lithuania) in 2001 and 2015, respectively. From 2014 to 2017, he was head of Traffic Safety Laboratory and from 2017 to the present he is a researcher at the Transport and Logistics Competence Centre. As a professor in the Department of Automobile Engineering (VILIUS TECH) he has teaching courses on vehicle dynamics, road traffic safety, road vehicle safety, and traffic accident expertise which also corresponds to his main research interests. He is an associate editor for vehicle and traffic safety in peer-reviewed journal “Transport”. He is also a member of Lithuanian Automobile Engineering Association which belongs to FISITA. He is the author of more than 50 papers in research fields of vehicle dynamics and safety, road traffic and users behaviour as well as various solutions in transport machinery.