Astrid María
Algaba Brazález

Astrid Algaba-Brazález received the Telecommunication Engineering degree from Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Alicante, Spain, in 2009, and the Licentiate of Engineering and Ph.D. degrees from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2013 and 2015, respectively. Her Licentiate and PhD supervisors were the late Prof. Per-Simon Kildal and Prof. Vessen Vassilev ( both from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), as well as Prof. Eva Rajo-Iglesias (Carlos III University, Spain) with whom she carried out a 2 months-research visit in 2014 funded by the COST Action IC1102 - Versatile, Integrated, and Signal-aware Technologies for Antennas (VISTA), and the Ericsson Research Foundation. Dr. Algaba-Brazález joined Ericsson Research, Gothenburg, in November 2014, where she worked as a Master Researcher until June 2024 with the Antenna and Microwave Hardware Unit with special focus on 5G/6G antenna system hardware activities. She was leading all research activities related to metasurfaces and lens antennas within Ericsson Research since 2015, and she was the project manager of the research program "Hardware Research for Array Antenna integration at mm-wave frequencies". Dr. Algaba-Brazález was a 6-months visiting researcher at the MELA Networks and Managed Services Presales & Commercial Management section of the Customer Unit Iberia Department of Ericsson Madrid, Spain, in 2023. She has been co-principal investigator of 5 research projects funded in Swedish competitive calls by Vinnova (Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems). In July 2024, she joined the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), Spain, as a "Ramón y Cajal" Research Fellow. She was also awarded the "Ayuda de Atracción de Talento" within the 2022 Ramón y Cajal competitive call. Her research interests include millimeter-wave and sub-THz antenna technologies for 5G/6G radio access applications, lens antennas, leaky wave antennas, radomes, design of microwave passive components, metasurfaces, system integration of active components and antennas, and investigation of routing methods to achieve such integration. Dr. Algaba-Brazalez has been one of the two Swedish Delegates and management committee member of the European COST Action SYMAT- CA18223-Future communications with higher-symmetric engineered artificial materials from 2019 to 2024, and currently serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. Moreover, she received the second Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP) held in 2017 and the Best Paper Award in Antennas at the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) held in 2020. She is also co-recipient of the Best Student Paper Award and the Student Honorable Mention at ISAP2022. Dr. Algaba-Brazalez is frequent lecturer of three PhD courses at the European School of Antennas (ESoA): Metalenses for Antenna Applications, Exploiting Symmetries in Artificial Materials for Antenna Applications, Antenna Systems for 5G Communication.