Biography

Alexandre Graell i Amat is a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He is also an Adjunct Research Scientist with Simula UiB, Bergen, Norway.

He received the MSc degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in 2001, and the MSc and the PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. Prior to joining Chalmers, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Magnetic Recording Research, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA during 2001-2002. He also held a visiting appointment at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and at the Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia, both in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, during 2002-2003. During 2001-2004, he also held a part-time appointment at STMicroelectronics Data Storage Division, Milan, Italy, as consultant on coding for magnetic recording channels. From March 2004 to December 2005, he was a Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and a Researcher at the Politecnico di Torino. In 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2013 he held visiting appointments at the Institute for Telecommunications Research of the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. From January 2006 to January 2011 he was with the Department of Electronics of IMT Atlantique (former ENST Bretagne), Brest, France, first as a postdoc and since October 2008 as a faculty. He joined Chalmers in 2011.

Alexandre is a Senior Member of the IEEE and is currently serving as Area Editor (Coding and Information Theory) for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS. He also served as Editor at Large for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS (2016-2019) and as Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS (2011-2016), the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS (2011-2013) and for the European Transactions on Telecommunications (2011-2012). He is the TPC Co-Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Topics in Coding, Montreal, Canada, September 2020. He was the General Co-Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 2012, and of the Swedish Communication Technologies Workshop 2013, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 2013. He received the post-doctoral Juan de la Cierva Fellowship of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, and the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship of the European Commission. He was awarded the IEEE Communications Society "2010 Europe, Middle East & Africa Region Outstanding Young Researcher Award".