Pedro de Paco Sánchez (M’19) was born in Badalona, Spain. He received the M.S. degree in telecommunication engineering and the Ph.D. degree (cum laude) from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1997 and 2003, respectively. In 1998, he joined the Electromagnetic and Photonics Engineering Group (EEF), Signal Theory and Communications Department (TSC), UPC, with a grant from the Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), Barcelona, in a joint activity related with the European scientific space mission Planck. He was a member of the LFI-Radiometer, Noordwijk, working group and the Planck Consortium, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. During his Ph.D. degree at UPC, he participated in several national and international research projects, mostly related to microwave and millimeter-wave circuits and systems applied to design and testing of remote sensing instruments and front-endpoint-to-multipoint broadband communication systems. Since 2004, he has been an Associate Professor with the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, where he teaches applied electromagnetics and microwave engineering courses. From 2010 to 2013, he was the Deputy Director and a member of the Executive Board of the Telecommunication and System Engineering Department, UAB. From 2018 to 2019, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Microwave and RF Research Group, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA. He has been appointed as a Technical Expert for Telecommunications Equipment by the National Agency of Accreditation, Madrid, Spain. He has advised eight Ph.D. students. His current research interests include microwave filter synthesis and microwave acoustics filter synthesis and design, as well as microwave and radar systems and devices. Dr. de Paco Sánchez serves as a member of the Technical Review Board for the European Microwave Conference. He was awarded three times with merits in research and recognized with merits with the University Training Award by the l’Agéncia de Qualitat and awarded with Advanced Research by Generalitat de Catalunya. He is also a reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques and the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters.