Martinez Vicente Alfonso

Biography

Alfonso Martinez (Zaragoza, 1973) has been a Ramón y Cajal Fellow since January 2012. He obtained his Engineering degree from the University of Zaragoza in 1997. In 1998-2003 he was a Systems Engineer at the European Space Agency, where his work on APSK modulation was instrumental in the definition of the new physical layer of DVB-S2. In 2003 to 2007 he was a doctoral candidate at TU Eindhoven, where he conducted research on optical communications. Between 2008 and 2011 he was a post-doctoral fellow with the Information-theoretic Learning Group at CWI in Amsterdam and the University of Cambridge. He is the Chair of the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Information Society and serves as General Co-chair of the 2016 International Symposium on Information Theory, which will be held in Barcelona. His research interest lies in information theory, particularly on digital modulation and mismatched decoding; in this area he has coauthored a monograph on Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation'. More broadly, he is intrigued by the connection between information theory and classical and quantum physics. He has written over 80 publications, including 20 journal papers.

Research Interest

His research interest lies in information theory, particularly on digital modulation and mismatched decoding; in this area he has coauthored a monograph on Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation'