Carolina Pinart Gilberga

CAROLINA PINART GILBERGA (Barcelona, 1975) is a graduate and PhD in Telecommunications Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (April 1999 and December 2005). Since September 2007, she is the Head of Telefónica I+D's Networked Vehicles Division (Madrid, Spain).

From 2001 to 2007, she was the Director of Institutional Relations of the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC, Barcelona, Spain). Her duties involved relations with CTTC's board and advisory bodies, internal management, including the rewards program, and communication. She also collaborated with CTTC's Optical Networking Area, where she is an Industry Associate Researcher since Sept. 2007. In summers 2006 and 2008, she was a Visiting Researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technologies (Tokyo, Japan). From 1999 to 2001, she was a consultant for Altran (Paris, France), where she held positions of research engineer (client: Ericsson) and project leader (clients: FERMA/Mobinil and Renault R&D). From 1998 to 1999, she served as an undergraduate researcher for Siemens AG (Munich, Germany).

Since 2000, she has been participating in 14 public-funded R&D projects on wireless and optical networking technologies. Dr. Pinart has over 45 publications in journals and conferences, has supervised 2 Masters Theses (PFCs) and 4 undergraduate trainees, and is currently co-supervising a PhD student.

During her research career, she has obtained a Post-Graduate Prize by the Fundació Agrupació Mútua (2003), a Best PhD Dissertation Prize by the Spanish Association of Telecom Engineers (2006) and a Post-Doc Fellowship by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2006).