Francisco Vázquez Gallego, received his B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering (1995), M.Sc. (2000) and PhD (2016) degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He has more than 20 years of experience in R&D, working in multidisciplinary projects for space and industrial applications. He has participated in the development and manufacturing of prototypes and flight equipment for the European Space Agency (ESA), within the micro-gravity field and life-support systems, in projects like MARES (Muscle Atrophy Research & Exercise System, for NASA/ESA), EPU (Experiment Preparation Unit, for ESA), HAEMOSCAN and MULTIGEN (for ESA). Francisco has a broad and proven experience in the design and implementation of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) networks, embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, and vehicular (V2X) networks. Since January 2022, he is working as V2X Research Line Manager at the Mobile and Wireless Internet Group (MWI) of the I2CAT Foundation, where he collaborates in public-funded research projects and technology transfer projects as Senior Researcher and principal investigator. Francisco obtained his IEEE Senior Member in 2011 and works as reviewer for numerous international journals and conferences. His main research interests are focused on wireless communications and include the design, theoretical analysis, modelling and implementation of energy-efficient protocols for M2M networks, V2X networks and 5G technologies for connected vehicles. Since 2017, Francisco is lecturer at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in the Master Degree of Telecommunication and the Master of Industry 4.0.