Organizational structure
Executive Board
Our Executive Board is composed of the Director, the Deputy Director, the Research Director and the General Manager. The Executive Board is responsible for managing and overseeing the administration and scientific activities of the institute, with the powers, duties and responsibilities conferred to it by the Board of Trustees, to which it reports.
The Director is the CEO of the Institute. He is appointed by the Board of Trustees amongst scientists with a well-established international reputation in computer networking. The Director fosters and supervises the activities of IMDEA Networks Institute, and establishes the distribution and application of the available funds in accordance with the Institute's strategic goals and within the limits established by the Board of Trustees. He is aided by the Scientific Council in determining the scientific research director and associated policies. The Director is also assisted by the Deputy Director, the Research Director Manager and the General Manager.
Directive Team
Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees of IMDEA Networks Institute is its highest organ of governance, representation and administration. In accordance with the Institute’s statutes, the Board of Trustees is composed of Ex Officio Members representing the Regional Government of Madrid and Elective Members who are recognized leaders in the scientific matters of the Institute. The Director and General Manager of the Institute also participate in the Board of Trustees.
Excmo. Sr. D. Eduardo Sicilia Cavanillas
Vice-President:
Ex Officio Trustees
Ex Officio Trustees appointed by IMDEA Networks’ founding body:
Ilma. Sra. Dña. Irene Delgado Sotillos
Director General of Universities and Higher Arts Education
- Department of Science, University & Innovation
- Regional Government of Madrid
- (Madrid, Spain)
Ilma. Sra. Dña. Bárbara Fernández-Revuelta Fernández-Durán
Deputy Director General of Research
- Department of Science, University & Innovation
- Regional Government of Madrid
- (Madrid, Spain)
Ilma. Sra. Dña. María Luisa Castaño Marín
Director General of Research and Technology Innovation
- Department of Science, University & Innovation
- Regional Government of Madrid
- (Madrid, Spain)
Sr. D. Miguel Ángel García Martín
Deputy Minister of Presidency and Digital Transformation of the Community of Madrid
- Council of the Presidency
- Regional Government of Madrid
- (Madrid, Spain)
Sr. D. Luis Miguel Martínez Palencia
Director of the Community of Madrid Transport Consortium
- Regional Government of Madrid
- (Madrid, Spain)
Sr. D. José de la Sota Ríus
Scientific-Technical Coordinator
- Madrimasd Foundation for Knowledge
- (Madrid, Spain)
Ex Officio Trustees designated by research organizations within the Madrid public sector:
Dr. Juan Mulet Meliá
Innovation Expert
- Innovation Expert
- Designated by IMDEA Food
- (Madrid, Spain)
Sra. Luisa Muñoz Rebollo
Head of Digital Services for Global Customer Unit (GCU)
- Telefonica and Customer Unit (CU) Iberia
- Digital Services Presales, Commercial Management & Delivery MELA
- Ericsson
- (Madrid, Spain)
Elective Trustees – Prestigious Scientists
Prof. Dr. Jim Kurose
Distinguished University Professor of Information and Computer Sciences
- University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- Massachusetts, USA
Prof. Dr. Ioannis Stavrakakis
Full Professor & Head of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- (Athens, Greece)
Prof. Dr. Ralf Steinmetz
Full Professor & Managing Director of Multimedia Communications Laboratory (KOM)
- Technische Universität Darmstadt
- President of the Board of Trustees
- (Darmstadt, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Gustavo de Veciana
Cullen Trust Professor, Department of Electrical and Compute
- Engineering
- The University of Texas at Austin
- (Austin, Texas, USA)
Elective Trustees – Companies
Telefónica I+D
Designated representative
- Mr. David Pablo Del Val Latorre
- President and CEO, Telefónica I+D (R&D)
- (Madrid, Spain)
SATEC
Designated representatives
- Mr. Luis Alberto Rodríguez-Ovejero Alonso
- President
- Mr. Isaac Gil Rabadán
- Director of Human Resources and Processes
- (Madrid, Spain)
TELDAT
Designated representatives
- Mr. Antonio García Marcos
- President
- Mr. Ignacio Villaseca Costero
- Director General
- (Madrid, Spain)
Nokia Bell-Labs Spain
Designated representatives
- Mr. Álvaro Villegas Núñez
- Head of Bell-Labs Spain
- (Madrid, Spain)
ALEATICA
Designated representatives
- Mr. Ricardo Lobo Martínez
- R&D Department Manager
- Mr. Diego de Lapuerta Montoya
- Chief Operations Officer
- (Madrid, Spain)
Elective Trustees – Institutional Trustees: Universities
Trustees designated by the Counsellor of Education and Research of the Regional Government of Madrid at the proposal of the universities:
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Designated representative
- Prof. Dr. D. Juan José Vaquero López
- Vice-President for Scientific Policy
- (Madrid, Spain)
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Designated representative
- Prof. Dr. Jesús María González Barahona
- Associate Professor of Telematics Engineering
- Faculty of Telecommunications Engineering
- (Madrid, Spain)
Universidad de Alcalá
Designated representative
- Prof. Dr. Juan Ramón Velasco Pérez
- Vice President for Strategy and Planning
- (Madrid, Spain)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Designated representative
- Prof. Dr. Ignacio Martín Llorente
- Professor and Head of the Data-Intensive Cloud Lab
- Faculty of Computer Science & Engineering
Scientific Council
The Scientific Council is a very important organ of IMDEA Networks, advising us on all aspects of the Institute’s scientific activities. Among many other things, the Council proposes the incorporation and renewal of Scientific Expert members of the Board of Trustees; reviews and approves scientific appointments, and generally provides support to the Director – Dr. Arturo Azcorra and the Deputy Director – Dr. Albert Banchs – in determining scientific research strategy and policies.
The Institute’s Scientific Council is composed of internationally-prestigious researchers in the field of Telematics and Internet technologies. IMDEA Networks is greatly strengthened by the participation of these eminent scientists. The current members are:
Dr. Gonzalo Camarillo
Standardization Director, Ericsson. Finland
- PhD: Aalto University. Helsinki. Finland
- Research: Signaling; Multimedia applications; Transport protocols; Network security; Networking architectures
- Joining Date: July 2007
- Contact: gonzalo.camarillo@ericsson.com
- URL: Personal site
Prof. Dr. Jon Crowcroft
Marconi Professor of Communication Systems at University of Cambridge. Cambridge. UK
- PhD: University College London (UCL). London. UK
- Research: Computer Science
- Joining Date: July 2007
- Contact: jon.crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk
- URL: Personal site
Prof. Dr. Edward Knightly
Sheafor-Lindsay Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. Houston. Texas. USA
- PhD: University of California at Berkeley. Berkeley. USA.
- Research: Wireless Networks and Protocols; Wireless Access for Developing Regions; Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
- Joining Date: November 2010
- Contact: knightly@rice.edu
- URL: Personal site
Prof. Dr. Jim Kurose
Distinguished University Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. MA. USA.
- PhD: Columbia University of New York City. Nueva York. USA
- Research: Network Protocols and Architecture; Network Measurement; Sensor Networks; Multimedia Communication; Modeling and Performance Evaluation
- Joining date: November 2007
- URL: Personal site
Dr. Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez
Moonshots Ambassador at X, the moonshot factory. Mountain View, CA. USA.
- PhD: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Lausanne. Switzerland
- Research: Networking; Distributed Systems; Information Theory; Wireless and Mobile; Network Economics; Social Networks
- Joining Date: November 2010
- URL: Personal site
Prof. Dr. Ioannis Stavrakakis
Full Professor & Head of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Athens. Greece
- PhD: University of Virginia. Charlottesville. USA
- Reseach: Resource Allocation Protocols and Traffic Management for Communication Networks, with recent emphasis on Peer-to-Peer, Mobile, Ad hoc, Autonomic and Social Networking
- Joining Date: July 2007
- Contact: ioannis@di.uoa.gr
- URL: Personal site
Prof. Dr. Ralf Steinmetz
President of Board of Trustees of IMDEA Networks Institute; Full Professor & Managing Director of Multimedia Communications Lab (KOM) at Technische Universität Darmstadt. Darmstadt. Germany
- PhD: Electrical Engineering. Technische Universität Darmstadt. Darmstadt. Germany
- Research: Scalable Quality of Service; Content Distribution Networks; Context Aware Communications; Adaptive Mobile Networking; Knowledge Media; Serious Games
- Joining Date: July 2007
- Contact: Ralf.Steinmetz@kom.tu-darmstadt.de
- URL: Personal site
Dr. Heinrich J. Stüttgen
Independent consultant
- PhD: Computer Science, Associative Memory Architecture, University of Dortmund. Germany
- Investigación: Network Architecture and Protocols; Software Defined Networking; Internet of Things (IoT)
- Fecha de incorporación: June 2017
Prof. Dr. Gustavo de Veciana
Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering Professor and Associate Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. USA.
- PhD: Electrical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley. USA
- Research: Analysis and Design of Wireless and Wireline Telecommunication Networks; Architectures and Protocols to Support Sensing and Pervasive Computing; Applied Probability, Queueing and Information Theory
- Joining Date: November 2010
- Contact: gustavo@ece.utexas.edu
- URL: Personal site