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Biography

Maria Garcia-Fernandez received the BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from University of Oviedo (Spain) in 2014, 2016 and 2019, respectively. She also received the BSc in Mathematics from National University of Education at Distance - UNED (Spain) in 2023. From 2013 to 2022 she was with the Signal Theory and Communications Research Group, TSC-UNIOVI, University of Oviedo. In 2022, she joined Queen’s University Belfast, where she is currently a MSCA Research Fellow at the Centre for Wireless Innovation. She was also a Visiting Student at Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, USA) in 2013 and 2014, a Visiting Scholar with the Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, Northeastern University (Boston, MA, USA) in 2018, and a Visiting Researcher with the Radar Department of TNO (The Hague, The Netherlands) in 2019. 

Her current research interests include radar systems, computational imaging, inverse scattering, remote sensing, antenna measurement and diagnostics, and non-invasive measurement systems on board unmanned aerial vehicles. She has authored around 60 peer-reviewed journals and conference papers, and she holds two patents. She has also received several awards, such as the best student paper award in EuCAP 2019, two Galileo Masters Awards in 2019 (sponsored by the European Commission) and one National Award to the Best PhD Thesis on Telecommunication Engineering in Spain in 2020.