Ana García Armada is a professor in UC3M’s Signal Theory and Communications Department and head of the Communications Research Group. With a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering, she is developing her research activity in the field of mobile communications, having led various national and international projects. Her research has resulted in nine book chapters and over 250 publications in journals and international conferences, as well as five patents. She has carried out research stays at leading institutions, such as Stanford University or Bell Labs, among others. She is part of the Expert Group of the European mobile communications platform Network Europe and has been the Spanish representative and Vice-President of the ESA Joint Board on Communication Satellite Programmes 5G Advisory Committee. She is currently the Vice-President of Member and Global Activities of the IEEE Communications Society. She has received an Excellence Award from the Social Council and a Best Teaching Practices Award from UC3M, in addition to the third Bell Labs Innovation Award 2014. She has also received the Outstanding Service Award from the Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) committee, the Outstanding Service Award from the SPCE committee of the IEEE Communications Society, and the IEEE ComSoc/KICS Exemplary Global Service Award. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and an Area Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.