Manuel Felipe Cátedra (F’08) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain, in 1977 and 1982, respectively.,From 1976 to 1989, he was with the Radiocommunication and Signal Processing Department, UPM. He has been a Professor with the University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain, from 1989 to 1998. He is currently a Professor with the University of Alcalá, Madrid. He has worked on about a hundred of research projects solving problems of Electromagnetic Compatibility in Radio and Telecommunication Equipment, Antennas, Microwave Components and Radar Cross Section, and Mobile Communications. He has developed and applied CAD tools for radio-equipment systems such as Navy ships, aircraft, helicopters, satellites, the main contractors being: EADS, ALCATEL, CNES, ALENIA, DASA, SAAB, INTA, BAZAN, INDRA, the Spanish Defense Department, CAICYT, DGICYT, CICYT, CEE (ESPRIT), European Space Agency (ESA), Ericsson, MATRA SPACE, CSELT, KTH, INAVI, Texas University, Drexel University, Singapore University, Mitsubishi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, BOSCH, CASA, RYMSA, IRSA, INDRA, ISDEFE, TELEFONICA, ENSA, Instituto Geográfico Nacional, TELEVES, GMV, and ACCIONA. Recently, he promoted the creation of a technology-based company of the University of Alcalá called NEWFASANT (http://www.fasant.com), for a better transfer of techniques developed by the research team he leads.