Professional Experience, Education and Honors – Dr. Jorge Querol
🚀 Professional Career
Research Scientist · Head of 6GSPACE Lab
2018 – PresentUniversity of Luxembourg – Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) · SIGCOM
Leading the 6GSPACE Lab (40+ researchers) conducting independent research on AI-accelerated satellite communications, real-time signal processing, 5G/6G non-terrestrial networks (NTN), and software defined radio transceivers. Principal Investigator (PI) of 11 projects and Vice-PI of 12 more, securing over €9.8 million in competitive funding from ESA, Horizon Europe, FNR, and industry partners (SES, Deutsche Telekom, LuxSpace).
Co-Founder & Technical Advisor
2016 – 2024MITIC Solutions S.L. (UPC-BarcelonaTech Spin-off)
Co-founded a deep-tech spin-off focused on commercialization of pre-correlation anti-jamming, RFI detection, and spectrum monitoring solutions for GNSS receivers, satellite navigation, Earth observation, and security-critical applications.
PhD Candidate & System Engineer
2013 – 2018Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-BarcelonaTech)
Developed real-time standalone pre-correlation mitigation systems for GNSS receivers (FENIX) and radiometer-based interference localization platforms using SDRs. Co-author of 1 US patent, 9 journal papers, and 26 international conference presentations.
Research Engineer
2011 – 2012KTH Royal Institute of Technology · Stockholm, Sweden
Development and PCB prototyping of systems for ultra-low power management, smart grid wireless sensor networks, ARM CPUs, and supercapacitor energy storage.
FPGA Engineer (Internship)
2010ICFO – Institute of Photonic Sciences
Design and VHDL implementation of real-time data processing and communication system with FPGA and PowerPC for biomedical optics applications.
🎓 Education & Academic Degrees
PhD in Signal Theory and Communications
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Thesis: "Radio frequency interference detection and mitigation techniques for navigation and Earth observation". Supervised by Prof. Adriano Camps. Awarded Best PhD Thesis 2018 by IEEE GRSS Spanish Chapter.
📄 Download PhD Thesis PDF →MSc in Photonics
UPC-BarcelonaTech / UAB / UB
MSc thesis on real-time radio-frequency interference mitigation systems for GPS/GNSS. Advanced coursework in quantum communications and optical networks.
Electronics Engineering Degree
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Equivalent to MSc in Electrical Engineering. Awarded Best Academic Record of Class 2011.
Telecommunications Engineering Degree
UPC-BarcelonaTech / KTH Stockholm
Equivalent to BSc + MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Master Thesis defended at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
🏆 Key Awards & Honors
Co-recipient of the best paper award for advancements in AI/ML for 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks.
Invited talk on 6G NTN multi-connectivity and space testbed prototyping.
Co-recipient of the best paper award for outstanding contributions to Non-Terrestrial Networks.
Awarded best PhD thesis defended during the year 2018 in Spain.
Winner of the 2017 research quality grant (€10,000 prize for GPS/GNSS anti-jamming research).
Winner of the European Satellite Navigation Competition Barcelona regional challenge.