Nuria Llombart

Nuria Llombart (Fellow, IEEE) received the master’s degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. During the master’s studies, she spent one year with the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, and worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Erlangen. From 2002 to 2007, she was with the Antenna Group, TNO Defence, Security and Safety Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands, as a Ph.D. Student and then as a Researcher. From 2007 to 2010, she was a PostDoctoral Fellow with the California Institute of Technology, working with the Submillimeter Wave Advance Technology Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA. From 2010 to 2012, she was a Ramón y Cajal Fellow with the Optics Department, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain. In September 2012, she joined the THz Sensing Group, Technical University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands, where she has been a Full Professor since February 2018. She has coauthored more than 200 journal and international conference contributions in the areas of antennas and THz systems. Dr. Llombart was a co-recipient of the H. A. Wheeler Award for the Best Applications Paper of 2008 in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION, the 2014 THz Science and Technology Best Paper Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, and several NASA awards. She was also a recipient of the 2014 IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Achievement Award. She serves as a Board Member for the IRMMW-THz International Society and an Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION. In 2015, she was a recipient of a European Research Council Starting Grant. In 2019, she became an IEEE Fellow for contributions to the millimeter- and submillimeter-wave quasi-optical systems.